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To Kiss or not to Kiss

A new Souvenir showing the Netherlands today

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  • 31/10/2018 Gabriela Bustamante

    Culture Cult Exhibition – Dutch Design Hotel Artemis

    October 4th was the opening of the Culture Cult Exhibition. It is wonderfully organized by Nadja Schreurs, coordinator of the

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  • 29/10/2018 Gabriela Bustamante

    Where can I buy the Souvenirs?

    Many people have been asking me when the multicultural souvenirs will be available on the market for purchase. I admit,

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  • 24/10/2018 Gabriela Bustamante

    One more turn around the sun

    Dutch Design Week 2018. It’s already been one year! It all goes so fast! A year ago, To Kiss or

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  • 28/11/2017 Gabriela Bustamante

    To Kiss or Not To Kiss at the Dutch Design Week 2017, An unexpected and rewarding impact.

    Dutch Design Week is busy. We all know that. But that we would be stormed by people with questions, remarks

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  • 25/10/2017 Gabriela Bustamante

    Only a Kiss Away!

    This post  about ‘ Kissing” is a contribution from Allison Heidrich. Allison studies International Communication Management at The Hague University

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  • 25/10/2017 Gabriela Bustamante

    Diversity is sweet!

    The richness of cultural diversity can be expressed in different types of souvenirs. As an opportunity to expand this idea,

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  • 01/10/2017 Gabriela Bustamante

    Pop-up Plans

    The project is expanding in interesting directions. Through the co-creation sessions I met Anja Overdiek who works as a senior

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  • 28/05/2017 Gabriela Bustamante

    Co-Creating

    While the Chinese kissing couple was in the glazing process, I thought it would be a valuable opportunity to involve

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  • 28/05/2017 Gabriela Bustamante

    What has been happening?

    It has been a while since the last time I posted something about this project. Apart from being busy with

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  • 04/09/2016 Gabriela Bustamante

    First out of twenty

    In July I signed up to a course at Dutch Molds to start with the first steps towards making complex

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  • 13/07/2016 Gabriela Bustamante

    Exploring plaster mold-making

    In the past few weeks I continued with my quest to search for production alternatives of plaster molds to make

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  • 03/06/2016 Gabriela Bustamante

    Mr. Friday

              …said Musab                           

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  • 13/05/2016 Gabriela Bustamante

    ” There is no such thing as the Dutch-Chinese”…

    …said Jenny Ho, whom I was fortunate to meet a few weeks ago. Jenny is a sociologist and co-founder of

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  • 17/04/2016 Gabriela Bustamante

    3D thinking

    As we all know 3D printing has been growing and progressing in leaps and bounds in the past years. I

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  • 17/04/2016 Gabriela Bustamante

    The efforts it costs to get a cost price

    Next to exploring stories about cultural similarities or differences in the multicultural Holland, finding out about the design – and

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  • 03/04/2016 Gabriela Bustamante

    Liv. From the country with too much history.

    Working on the ‘Chinese Kissing couple’ has been a journey that is making me learn many aspects of this country

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  • 28/02/2016 Gabriela Bustamante

    Article

    The Embassy of Mexico in the Netherlands published an article of the To Kiss or Not to Kiss project on

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  • 27/02/2016 Gabriela Bustamante

    “Decorated with Gold and Silver” exhibition leads me to learn more about the Chinese culture.

    I went to visit the new Exhibition at Textile Research Center -Leiden “Decorated with Gold and Silver”. I recommend to

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  • 19/02/2016 Gabriela Bustamante

    Multiculturalism and inclusion a conversation with Dr. Daniela Vicherat

    This project has made me pay more attention to concepts such as multiculturalism, integration, inclusion and social cohesion. I met

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  • 13/02/2016 Gabriela Bustamante

    From mold to final model

    This project has its own pace and a mindful decision making process. Many proposals and ideas for the  ‘making of

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05/06/2015 First steps / Garment / Inspiration / Tradition / Treasures

Three inspiring visits

Many things inspire me for this project. From what I see around me, to books, phrases, exhibitions and  my students. I will be sharing some of these inspiration sources with you. Today I’d like to start with these three: The

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22/05/2015 Clay Models / Design Process / samples

Samples are ready

During the past few weeks, I’ve invested quite some hours in detailing, sanding and painting and looking at images of the folkloric garments from each of the countries. I don’t have any knowledge about the technique to paint Delft Blue

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22/05/2015 Clay Models / Design Process / Inspiration / Kissing / Tradition

Kiss

Next to the production of models, I’ve been doing research for the content of the project, learning a bit about Immigration History in the Netherlands and facts and figures about its present population. I am also discovering many interesting design

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03/04/2015 Clay Models / Design Process

Waiting list

At this point I’ve had a line of potential clay figurines waiting for me to give them form and color. I’ve put them in a zip-lock bag so that they keep their moisture. I lined them up on my window

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13/03/2015 Clay Models / First steps

Shrink gracefully…

Still working on the model making process; as I previously mentioned, the modeling clay I’ve used shrinks when it dries. For design purposes it is important to have some control that both pieces (male and female) shrink proportionately, so that

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27/02/2015 Collaboration

Inspiring visit from Adriana and Carlos

While I carry on making the models of the 6 multicultural kissing couples, I am thinking about the different directions this project could take, the needs and requirements for each of the possibilities. I was getting a bit scrambled up

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09/02/2015 Clay Models / First steps / Turkey

Hands-on, new rough sketches.

Making the first models was good to gain experience on how to work with modeling clay (the one that hardens up). This clay is not so user friendly, it shrinks while it dries and this leaves a rough texture. This

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02/02/2015 Clay Models / Turkey

First Steps, materializing ideas.

This is how it all started, the first sketch model inspired in a female Turkish folkloric dress.  I transferred this idea into modeling clay and as a next step a mold was made by Montagne Aardenwerkfabriek to slip cast it

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  • Culture Cult Exhibition – Dutch Design Hotel Artemis
  • Where can I buy the Souvenirs?
  • One more turn around the sun
  • To Kiss or Not To Kiss at the Dutch Design Week 2017, An unexpected and rewarding impact.
  • Only a Kiss Away!

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