New Year Preparatipns of Art Cafe

Art Cafe is a cafe brand that my mother and aunts both manage and design food/desserts  in Istanbul. (Levent, Çiftehavuzlar and Nişantaşı). I acctually wanted to share with you their new collection which is especially made for the New Year and Christmas, that were inspired by fairtales.

The collection is consisted of desserts which are cakes with snowmen, cookie houses, cup cakes with red roses, meringues that looks like pines, colourful macarons, eclairs with different designs...

The New Year collection for 2013!

Welcome to a colourful world!

Doesn't it look like Hansel and Gretel's house?

These cupcakes remind me the story of Snow White.

New Blogs

Nowadays I cannot write a lot for this blog, but I will, soon. The reason why I cannot focus on this blog is, because I have two new blogs, which I have to write for the courses in Sabancı University. One of them is a blog about designs and the process of the course VA 301 (course of graphichs): belminpilevneli-va301.blogspot.com , and the other one is a blog for history of visual communication: http://belminpilevneli-va312.blogspot.com/. You might enjoy them, because I enjoy, while I am writing:)

My Art Books

I really like to buy art books from every where in world. I have a little collection of colourful Art books. Some of them are illustration books and some of them are about art history or about Contemporary art, and Photography and they are all important books, that I recommend you to buy if you are interested in arts.

These are some of my art books that I want to share with you,

L'Herbier dea Fées

Here is Benjamin Lacombe's animation, which is fantastic!

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Benjamin Lacombe

Benjamin Lacombe is one of my favorite illustrators. I discovered his wonderful works in a book shop in Bergamo. He has been illustrating a lot of known books, at the same time both writing and illustrating his own books, like "Cherry and Olive".

His biography:
Benjamin was born in Paris in 1982. In 2001, he attended the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris. (ENSAD) where he pursued his artistic education. At the same time, he worked as an advertising and animated movie artist before completing his first comic series at the age of 19, along with a few other illustrated books...
"Cherry and Olive" became his first children's book and published in France by Les éditions du Seul in March 2006. The folling year, it was released by Wlker Books (USA) and nominated one of the top 10 children's books for the year 2007 by the weekly news magazine Time.
Since then, he has written and illustrated a lot of book. Also he exhibits his works on a regular basis.

This is Benjamin Lacombe, from his own web site: http://www.benjaminlacombe.com

A Bit More Bergamo

These monogram phototgraphs are from the view point of our hotel Alex e Angie, which I want to share with you, too. Actually these photographs are some kind of a summary for Bergamo's historical side.

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Bergamo

Some Information about Bergamo

Bergamo is a town and comune in Lombardy, Italy, about 40 km northeast of Milan. Its population is 120.000. The foothills of the Alps begin immediately north of the town. Bergamo occupies the site of the ancient town of Bergomum, founded as a settlement of the Celtic tribe of Cenomani. In 49 BC it became a Roman municipality.

Historic part of Bergamo.

A fountain at the center, with mythological elements.