David Schwen’s #pantonepairings photos have been making the rounds on Pinterest, but only this morning did I finally track them down at the source. What fun I’ve been missing! Schwen, as it turns out, is a very talented Instagram user – and Instagram is where you can find all of this pantone-inspired series, along with […]
Category Archives: Art + Design
How neat are these illustrations of iconic buildings from Portuguese artist André Chiote? The silhouette of the Niterói Museum of Contemporary Art is what first caught my eye – its shape is unmistakable, and Jack and I visited when we were in Brazil too many years ago.
Most Fridays, I would really like to kick things off with a love letter to coffee. Nantucket Blend, you are the light of my life, though I sneak around with Pleasant Morning Buzz on the weekend. Leaving our caffeine addictions out of this, we’ve had a couple of sleepless nights this week; I’m very much […]
Yesterday was a hectic day for us, and a blustery one at that. By the time we found ourselves walking home from Canary Square post-poutine, we were plotting stops along the way to get in from the cold – and then we happened upon OGO Gallery. Occupying what has lately been vacant retail space in JP, the […]
Max Wanger’s cliff diving series isn’t new, but it does remind us that warm weather frolicking is on its way. (Jack and I do love skiing, but we also love a mild, slop-free commute. It’s time.) Wanger’s shots of divers suspended in thin air brought to mind Jess Richmond’s gravity series, and this image in […]
Ours is not a fashion blog, I know – but I spent yesterday catching up on my poor, neglected google reader, and apparently I’ve been missing out on a fabulous video series from Garance Doré. It would be a shame if you were missing out, too! Reading Garance’s blog is basically just like watching the […]
We’ve been in our current apartment for almost three years. When we first moved in, we dug through my old art homework and hung a series of rough sketches as a placeholder on the dining room wall, fully intending to replace them with “real” art when we found the right piece. And, here they are, […]
I’m spending some time today tagging along on Jack’s homework: sketching practice. We’ve moved through lines, arcs, circles, ellipses, squares, triangles and textures, and while he moves on to icons and wire frames I’m hung up, per usual, on type. Basic sketching techniques apply to the work we’ve done in monogram design as well – […]
Happy Friday! We’ve got a low-key weekend in store (hopefully), which is good – there’s lots of homework, housework and client work to be done around here. What do you have on tap? Before the week is through, might we suggest a quick “awwwww” for Murad Osmann’s instagram photos of his ladyfriend leading him around […]
February is not my favorite month. Despite its brevity, it seems to me to hold the worst of winter – I’m over the joy of snow, there’s really no hope just yet for spring, and above all I’m really sick of riding in slop. I miss street cleaning. January is a month of winter fun, […]