Boston Fashion Week is just about to kick off, and with ever-impeccable timing Jack introduced me to Australian illustrator CJ Hendry. Yes, those shoes are drawn in pen and ink—when your eyes have adjusted to the shine, check out the trim.
Category Archives: Art + Design
I fully intended to write about Craig Ward’s amazing body of type design work and his Glitch Typography series today, inspired by the woven incarnation of binary data we mentioned last week; then, completely unaware of my planned post, Jack introduced me to Georg Fischer’s Glitch Images. With a bit more digging, everything had changed.
This particular piece from Kazuo Shiraga caught my eye first because of the color: the rich plum was the perfect tone for a project we were working on, and the energy of the strokes—as it happens, he most famously painted with his feet while suspended above the canvas—drew me in. When I came across J.R. Schmidt’s processing posters last […]
This morning was a rainy commute; I can only hope the roads will stay dry for the ride home, even if my shoes won’t be. Something about the drop in temperature—in the space just between a muggy morning run and my departure for work—and a longing for more summer had me in just the right […]
Last week in the midst of the move, I came across a still shot from Michael Shainblum’s “Mirror City,” and I was blown away when I unearthed the video itself. Shainblum turns timelapse videos of urban environments into a kaleidoscopic love letter for anyone who has ever fallen for a city.
I can’t stand the thought of throwing away books. I can’t even recycle them. I bought a kindle a while back, so I purchase far less travel fiction than I used to, but I held on to my undergrad textbooks far beyond their shelf life because they didn’t sell and I couldn’t bear the thought […]
My introduction to “flat” art and design was Takashi Murakami’s work on the inaugural Art Wall of the ICA Boston space in 2006, done in the artist’s Superflat style. Since then, we’ve seen a return to flat designs in web and mobile interfaces, as well as elsewhere in contemporary art and print design; it was in […]
Last night Jack and I stopped by the ICA for an opening reception for Mary Reid Kelley’s exhibit. (So good.)
Time in transit is always introspective for me – by bike, by car, on foot, on a bus, or through the skies, I tend to spend travel time lost in thought. My trip to and from New York last weekend was no different; I took a lot of notes. Something about Jim Darling’s illustrations from […]
We’re not particularly diligent about watching weather forecasts – it’s New England, after all, so who really knows? If it’s raining when we wake up, we plan accordingly; if it’s not, we assume it might, and ride anyway. Yesterday, though, the weather was severe enough that forecasts came to me, in the form of two […]