Category Archives: Art + Design

Friday Fancies

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 […]

Common Ground

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 […]

Testing Type

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 – […]