I received a copy of Little Big Books for Christmas from my parents, and I have to share its awesomeness with you. It contains loads of children’s book illustrations in a wide range of styles. I’m pretty sure that almost every designer/illustrator has “write and illustrate a children’s book” on their bucket list, and I’m no exception. [...]
This time each year our home is shrouded in spider webs. Hundreds of spiders flock to our house at night to build webs in the light of our great room window where there are moths aplenty. It’s kind of inconvenient to walk into a spider web every time I step out my door, but I [...]
In my quest to improve my hand lettering skills I purchased a copy of Typography Sketchbooks by Steven Heller and Lita Talarico. It’s filled with page after page of gorgeous lettering from the sketchbooks of over 90 talented designers. I’m so glad I added this amazing inspirational resource to my bookshelf. I don’t think it [...]
I just realized that I’ve never done a font post! That’s crazy, because I love fonts. In fact, I currently have 14,375 fonts on my computer. I have no idea how I ended up with so many, because I only use a fraction of them and most of them are way too ugly to use [...]
This time last year author Charlotte Rivers asked me to submit some of my work for her latest book, I Heart Stationery. I sent her some photos, answered a few questions, and then forgot all about it. A few weeks ago I noticed that the book was available for pre-order on Amazon. My copy just [...]
Red has been the dominant color in our living room for the past 5 years or so. Red and I have had a nice long run, but I’m ready for a change. I have a folder on my computer that currently holds 1,187 photos of interior design inspiration that I’ve been collecting since college. The folder [...]
I was going to make a berry cobbler this week, but all my fresh berries turned to mush before I could use them. Don’t you hate it when that happens? So instead I’m satisfying my berry craving by drooling over the photography on the Tartelette blog. I think Helene’s food photography is the best I have [...]
Old movies are the best. My parents opted to forgo cable TV and raised my sister and I on a steady diet of classic films. I didn’t have daily access to cable TV until college, and I think I’m better off for it! I could never list all my favorites, but here’s a small sampling of my [...]
Since I know you guys like sketchbooks I have to share this amazing sketchbook collection I came across at Book By Its Cover. There are pages and pages of awesome illustrations to look through. You know when you look at someone else’s amazing work and think “Wow, I suck!”? It’s like that. You have to check [...]
For the past month I’ve had fuzzy recollections of a beautifully illustrated turtle with a flower-painted shell. It was such a vague memory that I thought I might have dreamt it, but I couldn’t get this mysterious turtle out of my head. After many fruitless Google searches I finally mentioned it to my parents, and it [...]