These words might seem like random mumbo jumbo to most, but to me it’s a bit of Saturday morning sunshine. Every Saturday morning after breakfast, the kiddo and I take our coffee and sippy cup downstairs and watch 2 episodes of one of the most awesome TV shows in the world for younger children (besides Sesame Street).  I found out about it because the Kidrobot designed all of the costumes and I am a huge fan of their collectible vinyl toys and graphics. Read More

It has been a long time since I have seen a movie that is so artistically inspiring that it keeps me up at night reviewing the images and sounds over and over in my mind. The Single Man was that kind of movie. Directed and produced by Tom Ford (the former creative director of Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent), he bought the rights to “A Single Man,” the 1964 novel written by Christopher Isherwood, in 2006, Read More

You can compromise your brand and try to appeal to everyone, which only creates a cloudy brand promise and hides your story. Don’t be afraid to appeal to a specific audience. You will be noticed and win more hearts in the end. Read More

A design that is to be appealing must also be easy on the eyes. Without the right amount of white space, text would be unreadable, graphics would lose their emphasis, and there would be no balance between the elements on a page. Read More

I was searching for a fun gift for a friend and because she has a bit of a fascination with the green fairy, I tracked down a bottle of Trillium Absinthe online. When it arrived, I was struck by how absolutely beautiful the bottle is in both shape and graphic design. Everything about it, from the shape to the wax covered top, makes me want to try it, even though absinthe has never been of interest to me. Read More

Saturday, we visited the Durham Museum in Omaha Nebraska to see the American Letterpress-The Art of Hatch Show Print, which is in its final week.
The posters have a wonderfully organic nature to them since each one is hand pulled and therefore has variances within a series. They like to call them monoprints for that reason.
The earlier posters were simple but so impactful and memorable…the overlapping triplicate image of Johnny Cash is one of Hatch’s signature prints. Read More

Peeps…a cultural phenomena. It’s hard to believe they were introduced half a century ago. I totally remember looking forward to them every year in my Easter basket. The lovely sugar-coated gooey goodness. Even though you had to open the entire pack of 12 to get 1 out, and the others solidified in a matter of hours, we loved our Peeps. AND we loved messing with them. We nuked them in the microwave, we put them through torturous “science experiments,” Read More

Minjae Lee is a young South Korean artist whose work expresses a semi-disturbing inner tension that is tough to ignore, even if you feel that you’d like to. Its powerful colors, halting imagery and clever juxtaposition of beauty, innocence and fragility with brash, loud and aggressive is what stopped me in my tracks. I can’t stop staring at each image, no matter how harsh they can be at times.
My world as a designer, Read More

How very cool!  Dutch designer Teun Fleskens has created a public seating product that literally rocks.  When someone sits downs it makes the piece move, which would naturally stimulate discussion among those who share the seat.  What a great way to break the ice.

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Growing up we made intricate paper ornaments for the holidays.  Sort of a tradition in my Danish family, we all learned to use very small, very sharp scissors at a very young age.  We’d spend hours creating a pattern, tracing it on to acetate to create a template and then cutting and sewing the paper ornaments for our tree and to give to friends and family.  From the classic Danish woven heart to lacy trees to angels. Read More