The perfect love triangle – pop culture, art and design. Madonna, Ritts, Gaultier - iconic style.

We can say that Madonna is one of the most recognizable pop culture icons. She’s controversial, provocative and glamorous. She knows the importance of her image and style, and she knows how to use it perfectly. During her whole career, she has been dynamically changing her artistic and stage faces, using fashion, art and design to play with her image in many ways and styles.

Madonna by Herb Ritts | source: http://madonnascrapbook.tumblr.com/post/26619804062/lady-madonna-a-change-of-face-1986-herb-ritts

The making-of...

There's much going on right now in Artavaganza and we're very excited to give you a glimpse of these glamorous things. We'll be updating the blog with a new, delicious and candy-flavored photo session, but for now, have a taste of a tiny little bit:

Make-up: Magda Tajber

There's more coming soon, so keep checking our blog!

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CANDY FLAVORS | Konnichiwa! How to be kawaii?

Have you ever thought what role your image plays in life? Is it only about the visual side and being fashionable? Or maybe there is more to it?

For us, the image is a way to express yourself. To show your personality and style. We really do appreciate fancy and crazy outfits. What's interesting is that there's an infinite amount of trends and ways of expression around the world.

Let's have a trip to Japan and learn how to be kawaii!

One of the most colourful and dynamic styles is the Japanese one. The strong influence of Harajuku theme on international fashion trends becomes pretty obvious when you look closer. If you'd like to learn more about what Harajuku style is, click here. But for now, let's have a look how Japanese boys and girls are expressing themselves:

Photo by Kira, source: http://tokyofashion.com/kawaii-fashion-snaps-pop-n-cute-harajuku/         

What makes the Harajuku style so brilliant and influential?
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Spring's coming. We're shipping for free!

Hello, boys and girls!

The spring's just around the corner, so we wanted to share some fabulous new with you: we'll be delivering our products for free to all our customers starting from March 21st, the very first day of spring!

Get ready to pick your candies from our store and get it delivered right to your door for no additional costs. See you in our store on March 21st!

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Things to do, part II - nails!

CANDY FACTORY | Try our Cotton Candy!

Hello again and welcome to our Candy Factory column! Today we'll introduce you to the technical specifics of our wonderful t-shirts. Why? Because we believe it's important. 

When we see something we like, we always want to know more about it. How it's made, what it's from and so on. What we believe here in Artavaganza is only the highest possible quality. We're putting much effort to not only make it look fabulous, but also be fabulous down to a single thread.

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So... if you want to know more, click through to read!

Things to do, part I - nails...

What we're up to? Check it out in the following weeks!


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And the winners are...

It's time for a great revelation – we have the winners of our St. Valentine's Day creative contest!

The first winning entry is by Joanna Konik: Artavaganza. Love at first kiss.

The second one is by Rafał Gajdzik: Tie the knot with Artavaganza!

Congratulations to the winners, thank you for all the entries and see you in the next competitions!

CANDY FLAVORS | What if art, design and fashion marry?

In Artavaganza, we aim to merge design with art and fashion. We actually find this point of view very, very creative. The marriage of all three creative activities might be successful enough to change the way things are perceived.

So, we'd like to share some examples of this interesting cultural influence in design with you. The romance of art and design is based on inspiration. Sometimes artists find their inspirations in a muse.

 print by Andy Warhol, source: http://eliensatlanticwire.blogspot.com/

Who is this post about? Click to see more!

One more week to win our sexy designer neckties!

Responding to your requests, we decided to run our competition for one more week, so the closing date to send the entries is February 14th (St. Valentine's Day!), 12 noon Central European Time.

To read the rules, click here.

Send your entries to shop@artavaganza.com and get our ties for you and your love!

EYE CANDY | Brainstorming!

In Artavaganza, we always work as a team. We mostly discuss design problems, look at international trends and try to find the best solutions. When working on our collection, we know it's not one man's job to do all the stuff – it's the team of people who have passion for beautiful things. What makes us special? 

Well, you could say it's nothing new to do a little brainstorming session every now and then. But the best way to do that is a triple brainstorm! It's a hard work, sure, but we actually like spending time together! That's what makes us creative as a team.

And, on top of that, we're having lots of fun! 

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CANDY MAKERS | Kamil Kamysz | designer

The most important thing for us here in Artavaganza is design. As we all know, design doesn't happen by itself – there is always a designer behind what you can see, so we'd like to introduce our art director and designer – Kamil Kamysz.

Kamil is a highly successful graphic designer. He was awarded grand prix at Agrafa International Graphic Design Biennale 2007, Katowice in Publications category for his book, "Der Zusammenhang". His works are taking part in many international graphic design biennials, such as China International Poster Biennale in Hangzhou in 2011, International Poster Biennale in Warsaw in 2010, and Agrafa International Graphic Design Biennale in Katowice in 2009 and 2007.

His works were also exhibited in Rio de Janeiro during ICGA Congress in 2011 and on Leipziger Buchmesse in Leipzig, Germany in 2007. His research work was presented as part of Metadata Offer New Knowledge project during Society for Digital Humanities conference at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada in 2007. 

If you want to know more about him or his works, visit his online blog: 

http://kamilkamysz.blogspot.com

Kamil is responsible for all our products design and Artavaganza's visual identity.

He really is our precious treasure! :)

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ARTAVAGANZA is going on-line soon!

ARTAVAGANZA | wear art! is partners with Gologorski Gallery,and is highly recommended by Marian Gologorski. ARTAVAGANZA is a new fashion brand created by artists & young designers, specializing in designer accessories.

ARTAVAGANZA is going on-line soon! It will be possible to check out the offer and to have a look!

We encourage to become a fan on facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Artavaganza/146478985372666

which makes you even closer to design news, events, special offers and many other fascinating opportunities!

design by Kamil Kamysz

Products by ARTAVAGANZA in shop-window of Gologorski Gallery!

You can find products by ARTAVAGANZA in Gologorski Gallery in Cracow. As you can see in the pictures, the shop-window with our products is stunning!

Buy our products and be stylish! With us you are sexy and trendy!
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Check out our short survey. We want to know which of our designs you like best, so we could satisfy your needs in our offer. We'd love to know what are you looking for, so that we could give it to you!

All your suggestions are welcome.
Feel free to vote!

Take part in our survey and answer the question at the bottom of our blog site.

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ARTAVAGANZA in Gologorski Gallery!

You can find the products by ARTAVAGANZA in Gologorski Gallery /Grodzka 29 street, Cracow, Poland/
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design by Kamil Kamysz  /ARTAVAGANZA/