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We recently visited the historic Adamson House, home of the family that at one time owned the town of Malibu (plus a bit of the nearby Santa Monica Mountains). I don’t need to be convinced to head up that way, it’s so invigorating just to spend time between the low, mist-watered hills and the cool sea.
Great, meaningful and multi-dimensional identity design happens when designers emotionally invest themselves in brand…
I was looking for something in my archives and happened on this. I decided I had better release it to the digital universe before its pixels flicker and fade away.
I think these were done for the 1997 Halloween party, a Westwood tradition…
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I had posted a couple of these geometrics to Facebook and got requests for more colorways… so here they all are.
Kaffa! in Orange, California is one of the great, locally-owned cafés that inspired me to start the My Wifi Life review series. I’ve been going there for years whenever I’ve been in the area. My heart skips a beat when I realize my travels will take me near them.
This is one of my all time favorite photos of my first design teacher, Julie Finger, at work in her first, tiny Los Angeles studio.
Just checked out Adam’s Avenue Coffee in Huntington Beach for the first time last weekend. Online reviews were very positive, and my experience was no different…
Creative Market is “a platform for handcrafted, mousemade design content from independent creatives around the world.” They’re also “passionate about making beautiful design simple and accessible to everyone.” As I understand it, the spirit of the marketplace is to keep offerings carefully curated, and also affordable.
I’m delighted to be among the first […]
At last, the concertina book (or accordion book) tutorial folks have been asking for! Keep in mind there are much more intensive and exacting ways to make these little books (for example, with acid free materials and reinforced corners); This is meant to be a quick, fun and inexpensive little project.
Here’s a another collection of beautiful things we spotted at the Unique LA Show. Everything but General Scooter “Foxy” McGee (bottom photo) was something we bought, either at Unique LA or the Renegade Craft Fair (last summer). The General, I’m still pondering: It’s pricey, but just […]
For Mother’s Day, my son agreed to come with me the Unique LA show. It helped a little that we brought and met up with a few teen friends. For the first time, he spent most of the afternoon wandering off with his friends, or on his own. Even so, after […]
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