still life with color

I’ve had lots of inspiration lately for various greeting card lines, and this helps to balance the production-centric work I’ve been doing lately. Design lines include:
• Food
• Judaica
(lots of overlap in the above two!)
• Floral & Herbal
• Coffee & Tea ….
Let’s see how much I can get done in time for the holidaze….

georgia on my mind

Would love to see Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction at the Whitney in NYC. In the meantime, since I’ve been creating lots of decorative borders lately anyway, thought I’d have some fun …. Okay, I really must get back to work!

dance & yoga

Designing this new postcard for such an inspirational person is, well, an inspiration. I’d love to try out Nubia’s dance classes!

what really inspires me

Yes, yes, yes, I’m a big fan of espresso….  Diplomatico in Toronto is one of my all time faves…. but there are many cafes than can serve up those delicious velvet, bitter shots and help give a great start to the day.
Above, from left – Toronto’s Diplomatico, San Anselmo’s Roasters, Sydney, Nova [...]

elegant, safari!

The new Top Sites view that the latest Safari browser shows makes for an interesting layout. I like the three-dimensionality of it. Looking at it makes me want to “design it”, i.e. place pages, and create a little movie showing my work. I especially like the reflection at bottom. (Empty cell at bottom’s for a [...]

floral inspiration

This Geogia O’Keefe painting is at the SFMOMA right now. Her vivid flowers, her gentle landscapes, her colors, the vibrancy…
It makes me want to get painting again now! no excuses! (like where to set up the easel, how to not make a mess, where to store the canvases, blah, blah blah)
Also makes me think of [...]

eye on the street

One of the many amazing images that came to life over the weekend, at the San Rafael Italian Street Painting Festival. It’s a privelege to be able to watch these many artists at work. Thank you, and thanks to the City of San Rafael.

plainpaper studio

Wonderful to work with Anna Ullrich and her art to design this card for her art show opening tomorrow night at Plainpaper Studio, in Berkeley. Her work is inspirational, making me want to create some new pieces of my own.

branded environments – the tea spa

I created these logos and posters for a Branded Environments class I took with the Art Center College of Design. Great class. Would love to have this company exist in real life – the Tea Spa – a place to go to, beautiful and serene, with delicious and soothing teas, an unassumingly posh atmosphere, maybe [...]

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