Tree fences for a Los Angeles community
Making place is really more about making space for a community to express itself through the tools I provide as a designer.
Los Angeles Art Collab
The best neighborhood in all of Los Angeles is in Mid City—a cluster of communities along Pico Boulevard between Fairfax and La Brea. Others may disagree, but I just want to lay that card on the table right now.
Early this past summer, we went on a multi-family camping trip to Refugio State Beach up the California coast. We enjoyed sunny days, dense rolling walls of afternoon fog, and thick tangles of tourmaline colored seaweed laying in sandy clumps as though it had fallen off a mermaid’s hairbrush.
Whitney Hurst sews a line of deceptively simple rag quilts. Why deceptive?
Because sure, you can sew together a bunch of fabric squares and trim them with ultrasoft minky, but really. Can you also put together a set of color combinations and patterns in such a surprising and delightful way?
Personal project: Thank you card
Here are some in-process photos of a card I recently created for a friend.
Gems fabric in the dining room
Recently, I received an email asking about Haiku in a Prism, one of the Gems pattern colorways I offer on Spoonflower (a digital fabric printing website).
Sketching gates
First round of pencil sketches.
Glowing Van Gogh Bicycle Path by Daan Roosegaarde
I would love to be a part of bringing something like this to more places.
New Pattern: Baby Tears
I’m pretty happy with the final results of this pattern study. As simple as it appears, it seems to have endless color possibilities, and better: it has one or two satisfying quirks that elevate it beyond mere “floral”.
Another concept for punched and perforated steel.
Terri Herbert spent years as a marine biologist with a deep connection to dolphins before a recent career change to Feldenkrais® practitioner.
New pattern: Ogee Garden
Returning to this awkwardly-named, but endlessly-intriguing motif, I filled a few more pages in a sketchbook and decided to pursue a loosely drawn “garden”.
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