Nikolas Michaelides
Memento Vivere Designs
The designer of Memento Vivere is South African born in a Greek Cypriot family. As a child, he was always enthusiastic about the Zulu dances and rituals, but above all he adored their crafting of amazing huge necklaces of coloured beads. Those vibrant oranges, greens, yellows and reds all put together in order to make accessories to highlight these peoples amazing ‘out of the ordinary’ dress code. His first attempt for art was to take one of his grandmothers ceramic flower pots and paint them. Later on in school his art teacher so loved his work that it was published in the school magazine this was in 1995. He loved to observe Social norms and still to this day. That’s one of the reasons why he became a nurse. The social and physical condition of the human body and also the circumstances it evolves and heals itself in, also the adventure and journey of LIFE. But art and Design was always his passion so in 2007 he enrolled in to the Interior Architecture program of University of Nicosia., still loving to observe society and its cultural norms but now from a Designers aspect. How Nature affects design was always an important consideration of Nikolas, nature as an element of our physical universe was the main subject of study examining nature’s effect in contemporary design environments. After completing the design coarse he enrolled in the MBA programme of UCY, in order to use the degree in the health system or for design career progress and there it was, in the leadership class, as it was meant to be, the idea was born, may it be called a chance to industrialize art, designs and photos in order to make art more applicable in our everyday lives, or mostly to break form as know it. The artist thought of clothing as an architectural structural element that covers the body. The body which the designer knows well as being a nurse at the same time was now the organic basis of this Architectural structure which he wanted to reform or transform. So there it was, the idea of paintings printed on material in order to change
