April 04, 2019 Words. We seem to ignore their power. Shivanee Ramlochan weaves her tapestries of words in such a fashion that each grabs your soul. Her book Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting contains pages of poems that grasp different parts of your consciousness in a way that cannot be escaped. They actually haunt […]
July 04, 2016 “I wanted to see if an architectural way of making could be developed that reflects the nature of Trinidad Carnival.” In the aftermath of Carnival 2016 in T&T, you might assume that all the 20-something-year-olds would be hung over, recovering or asleep. And while they might have been, Latrelle Rostant wasn’t. The […]
February 26, 2016 “I wanted to talk about local fashionand local brands in a more inclusive way.In a way that would encourage young women like myself to invest in good local fashion.” A cool Saturday morning with fresh fruits, tea, toast and omelets, propped on a couch by the window in clear sight of the […]
September 20, 2014 Our Designer Island Instagram Profile Series features work of artists who utilize Instagram as a preferred medium to showcase their work. At Designer Island we are always on the look out for similar minded artists and naturally want to connect, share and chat with them. One of our recent finds is BSDLife, Brendan […]
