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December 2010
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Way Back - Printing Technology →
Back to school - the creative highs from the summer have given way to organizing thought and process into something others can understand. I’m teaching printing technology to students with and without computer experience. I have fairly extensive first hand experience working within the confines of today’s digital production work flow. So although current methods can be abstract to...
July 2010
7 posts
Daydream Wallpaper →
This is an oldie but goodie from one of my very favorite pattern designer/illustrators Julia Rothman. There will come a day when this wallpaper - perhaps only a few square feet of it - will hang in my home.
something my mother does
I had breakfast out with my boys this morning and as tempting as it was I refuse to take the leftover jam packets with me when I leave the restaurant. It is something that my mother does - Then down the road she tucks them into my son’s bag after he’s stayed the night. In the past we’ve found mini bottles of casino water, shower caps, pages from her page a day calendar and...
Punch and Judy Website →
At long last Scott and Christina have compiled an amazing showcase of their work online for the world to see! I had the pleasure of working in their studio several years ago - The most intensive training of my career; Talk about a creativity hot bed.
Switch Gear
In keeping with Identity I thought I’d share a recent identity I created for Lisa Monahan a fantastic jewelry designer (and all around lovely person to work with). Lisa is from the Boston area and switched gears herself after working professionally as an architect for 20+ years.
Switch Gear jewelry is a hardware inspired line of earrings and necklace sets that one would assemble from the...
Identity
As a designer the most challenging and all encompassing projects I can work on are visual identities. When executed properly: > research > concepts > refinement > more research > style guides > branding guidelines… There are always so many more questions than answers and in my opinion the exercise is always more successful when the client is willing to play along. In...
designerteachermotherwoman
My story begins in the 70’s as the only daughter to two young dreamers living in the now very trendy neighborhood of Queen West in Toronto Ontario. My mother worked to finish her degree at U of T and my father wrapped up his schooling at the Ontario College of Art. He was the artist and as it turned out, my mother and I were along for the ride. For as long as I can remember there has...