Decapitated Velociraptor: A Love Story
Once upon a time when my wife and I were dating and starting to talk about cohabitation, we had that “negotiation” to decide what items we would pool in order to decorate our new apartment. Both being artist-types and somewhat fussy about our space, we each had very specific ideas about how to curate our new combined collection of “objets d’art”. On most things we concurred, but I had […]
Love is a Hole in the Heart–Ben Hecht
A second love quote in the run up to Valentine’s Day. When I read this it initially struck me as tragic and dark, but it may also have a flip side—love does create space for the “other”, and often in filling that void makes the heart grows more full than before. Either way it speaks to me. Enjoy. Or not.
“Love is a smoke made from the fume of sighs”–William Shakespeare
A favorite love quote by the Bard. In case anyone’s interested, here are some general details about how this piece was created. As most of my work these days tends to be, this piece involves working back and forth between hand lettering, Photoshop and Illustrator: First, the background and “smoke” shape was drawn as a vector shape in Illustrator and placed in the base Photoshop file. The whole thing […]
The Big Game Around the UC Logo Controversy: Haters 1, Designers 0
The AIGA, the largest and most reputable voice for graphic design, weighed in on the University of California logo controversy with a rather scathing article on it’s web site. Turns out though that the articles’ main source, Christopher Simmons of Teaching Design fame, isn’t so upset about the logo, but more about reactions by the thousands of anti-logo petition signers, Facebook comments and even trained his sights on the […]
Weapons of Mass Affection: Preemptive Poetry
Nothing says “I Love you” like a love poem in January.
Time for an Industrial Resolution?
I know it’s almost mid-January and most of us have already made (and likely abandoned) any new year’s resolutions we were going make this year—but—in the off-chance you needed more time to weigh and consider, like me, I come bearing (downloadable) tools for success. Like most of my species I tend to make, but suck at keeping New Year’s resolutions. Until last year that is. At which time I […]
Beware the Bad Cat…
After watching a post-apocalyptic, dystopian downer of a movie called “Perfect Sense” on New Year’s Eve, we decided we better follow up with something a bit more uplifting to usher in 2013 so to help purge the images of Ewan McGregor (and the rest of the planet) methodically losing their sense of smell,taste, hearing, and eventually sight, we cued up “Babe”, the quirky, amazing film about a pig who […]
Quote from the fearless Thelonious Monk
A reminder to enter the new year unafraid.
It’s bacon. No, it’s jam. Stop, you’re both right.
Proving that Pinterest is the crucible for all things strange and delicious, we made Bacon Jam for Christmas gifts this year along with the illustrated label. As it says on the label it was “surprising palatable”. Write me for the recipe or look it up on Pinterest.
Leap and the net will appear
I always thought this was a Zen saying but I’ve learned it was in fact coined by a naturalist named John Burroughs.