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Flowers are emotions
With Tomas De Bruyne, Lead Instructor at EMC
This stage is for me, the most exciting level, because this is a level that I feel very comfortable with. This is a stage that I want to explain. I want to share how I went to this stage because it took a while to get...
At the edge of creative infinity
Lecture by Tomas De Bruyne, lead instructor at EMC
When it comes to creativity, the skilled creative starts to move the needle from the unconscious to the conscious. They start to realise that life is not about finding out what they already know, but more about...
Decisions that change your future!
With Tomas De Bruyne, Lead Instructor at EMC
As it happens in any creative evolutionary journey, once one reaches a certain stage of growth and development, the action or lack of action into pushing towards further growth defines how far ahead...
The time of habits and hard work
With Tomas De Bruyne, Lead Instructor at EMC
This lecture focuses on the everyday designer, the second stage of floral design. In the previous lecture we have talked about the novice designer, somebody who has just started and just like a student,...
The Exciting Stage of New Beginnings
With Tomas De Bruyne, Lead Instructor at EMC
We all go through a certain stage, but where are we and why is this so important? You need to know where you are now, so that, maybe, you can progress to the next step. If you want to grow, you must know...
Introduction into the 5 stages of floral design
With Tomas De Bruyne, lead instructor at EMC
What kind of designer are you? Where do you want to go? Where are you at, in your floral design journey? What is the next goal for you?
I also asked the question myself because I wanted to...
Refined Rawness
The EMC Core Team working together with a new line of products from Lehner Wolle
From conception and idea, to choice of materials and actual work, floral design can be a common project if the people involved speak the same language of Elements and Principles of design. During our...
Leatrice Eiseman - The International Colour Guru
Read full interview in our latest EDGE Fanzine, inside the EMC Circle Community
Leatrice Eiseman is an American colour specialist, who assists companies in their colour choice in a range of areas, including packaging, logos, and interior...
Capturing the spirit of stunningly unique flowers
Floriade 2022 Expo - the Japanese pavilion
As part of the Floriade 2022 Expo in Alemere, Netherlands, the Japan pavilion stands out with its elegant simplicity, the cozyness of the space and the atmosphere building around it. It is inspired...
Explosion of Creativity in Austria
Every year, the EMC educational team endeavour to go on a trip to reconnect and strengthen the underlying principles of why we teach as we do and to remember the core purpose of our educational work. It was with that in mind, we visited the Lehner...
Interview with Sue Tabbal-Yamaguchi
On the EMC Mastermind Experience coming up in Fall 2022, floral design and learning.
Sue Tabbal-Yamaguchi AIFD, CFD, EMC is the owner of Suvexpressions, a floral event company in Hawaii. She gained her EMC in 2016 and is a member of the EMC Core Team;...
"I set myself challenges, intentionally going against my preferences."
Diana Toma, EMC in conversation with Ana Grigoras Cfd EMC
I am part of the EMC team and have been for the past four years. I am a coach in the programme, having students join the Foundation class and go...