• About
  • Contact
  • Buy
  • Press

Serena Olivieri

Illustrations, Graphic Projects & Handmade Extravaganzas

Main menu

Skip to content
  • Illustrations
  • Patterns
  • Graphic
  • Notebooks
    • Custom
    • Prototypes
  • Work In Progress
  • Video
  • Extravaganzas
  • Me & My life

Category Archives: Work In Progress

Show Grid Show List

Post navigation

caixa-6 copy

Patterns by night

June 30, 2012 by Serena Olivieri

Yesterday night I went out with some friends and finished lingering around the Caixa Forum Museum in the center of Madrid. I’ve always loved this building, especially the entrance. As you can see it has a geometric ceiling and the first thing that came into my mind was a watercolour pattern! I think this could me a good creative method to study patterns: take pictures of even simplier places and buildings and then to study them. So yes, I’m a […]

Categories: Work In Progress • Tags: colors, patterns, photography

Leave a comment

Coming soon: my first series of notebooks!

June 5, 2012 by Serena Olivieri

My new (and first) line of handmade notebooks! COMING SOON!

Categories: Work In Progress • Tags: handmade, illustration, notebook

Leave a comment
tumblr_m4oubaqqis1qk63rvo10_r1_1280

Color Studies

May 28, 2012 by Serena Olivieri

  I’m working like crazy to produce like..25 notebooks for the 2nd of June (Dosde Market, Madrid). The notebooks will have bright covers and the same decoration of this one. Right now I’m making light-blu, orange, yellow, pink and green covers. I’m really excited about the color-mix I’ll get!

Categories: Work In Progress • Tags: colours, craft, handmade, paper, work in progress

Leave a comment
tumblr_m4k2hotsy31qk63rvo7_r1_1280

instaPOST

May 25, 2012 by Serena Olivieri

A recap of my latest “WORK IN PROGRESS” Instagrams

Categories: Work In Progress • Tags: handmade, illustration, instagram, work in progress

Leave a comment
tumblr_m37g38smm31qk63rvo1_1280

Work in Progress – custom

April 28, 2012 by Serena Olivieri

Work in progress. This is another collection of pictures I took today while I was preparing all the necessary things to start bookbinding for a client. It will be a notebook, A6 size, I’ll have to make 3 illustrations about food/cooking + a pop up + a pocket. It will be based on this one and customized for a person that likes to cook  My client chose the papers among the ones from the Tiger store: the cover will have two […]

Categories: Work In Progress • Tags: crafts, handmade, paper, work in progress

Leave a comment
tumblr_m1x19uowzt1qk63rvo4_1280

Color studies #2

April 3, 2012 by Serena Olivieri

I’ve been into neon colors lately. So I started playing with them. Here you’ll see some pictures I took while cutting and glueing two days ago. These are basically studies for the covers of a new line of neon-notebooks I’ve in mind. This time I was playing with the layers, trying to juxtapose them in a certain fashion..I wanted to find a good balance between colors and shapes, but I also wanted to test the paper, to see if it […]

Categories: Work In Progress • Tags: neon, work in progress

Leave a comment
tumblr_m1ektdhtvv1qk63rvo10_1280

Color studies

March 24, 2012 by Serena Olivieri

This is a very simple agenda, A5 size, it has blank pages and hard cover. As you can see, the right side is different from the left side..I didn’t planned it! Since many things in my work happen by chance, this time I realized – to late – I didn’t have enough yellow paper, so I had to use the red one ( a very tiny piece..) I think I might start a series with neon colors…strong colors like these. […]

Categories: Work In Progress • Tags: neon, work in progress

Leave a comment
tumblr_m17a5rttz01qk63rvo1_1280

Work in progress – Inspirational

March 20, 2012 by Serena Olivieri

I had to take pictures of these papers to show them to one of my clients, so he could see and decide. It’s a journal he’s going to write for his baby daughter, A4 size. He wanted something related to the Mediterranean Sea and a tiny village in Spain, so I choose these colors accordingly. Between the deep blue of the sea and the beige/ocre of the houses and the sand of southern Spain. For the hardcover I’ll use that […]

Categories: Work In Progress • Tags: work in progress

Leave a comment
tumblr_lzuppxzkxx1qk63rvo10_1280

Work in progress: preparing for bookbinding

February 23, 2012 by Serena Olivieri

Here there are some pictures I took today. You can see all the notebooks and agendas to be ) I’ve been preparing all the signatures for the new books. I had 3 of them already sewed, one with cords the other two the spanish way (without cords) I love the colors of the papers..next time I’ll be taking pictures of the covers. For daily sneak peeks take a look here )

Categories: Work In Progress • Tags: work in progress

Leave a comment

Post navigation

Twitter

  • Just a Skyrim DIY Wallet- great for travelers who may go into risky places #diy pinterest.com/pin/1828180660… 4 hours ago
Follow @Serena_Olivieri

Facebook

Blogroll

  • Anamu
  • Ape on the Moon
  • April and May Studio
  • Bright Bazaar
  • Brooklyn to West
  • Camilla Engman
  • Cynthia Gonzalez
  • Dearest Nature
  • Design Break blog
  • Design Sponge
  • Discover Paper
  • Donna Wilson
  • Fair Morning Blue
  • Garance Doré
  • Happy Interior Blog
  • IAMTHELAB
  • Justina Blakeney
  • My Little Fabric
  • My Paradissi
  • Pinecone Camp
  • Poppytalk
  • Sister Magazine
  • Stefania Nicolosi
  • Vosgeparis
  • Wee Birdy

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

  • RSS - Posts
  • RSS - Comments
Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Gridspace by Graph Paper Press.
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 1,113 other followers

Powered by WordPress.com