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bye!
so long, croak & hum.
I’ve been working as “croak & hum” since 2004, when I was an illustration major at Cornish College of the Arts. The name came from an old book of collected etchings, each chapter vaguely named for what kind of images were in it. My favorite chapter, full of hummingbirds, dragonflies, frogs, and other small summery-outdoorsey creatures was called Croak & Hum. To me the...
ben's marathon link →
I am a fan of a)826, b) Ben Gibbard, and c) running. I say, support all three!
February 2011
4 posts
Eating and Sleeping: "Confessions of a Juggler" by... →
myinnermonoblog:
My daughter recently checked out a book from the preschool library called “My Working Mom.” It had a cartoon witch on the cover. “Did you pick this book out all by yourself?” I asked her, trying to be nonchalant. Yes. We read the book, and the witch mother was very busy and…
Connie's Things
Last week I saw my aunt Pam, and she sent me home with a bag of items previously owned by my Grandma Connie, including some amazingly fabulous glasses and prescription sunglasses. Most of my memories of my grandmother involve her wearing sunglasses no matter if she was indoors or out. It never occurred to me when I was younger that she just considered them her glasses. Seems her vision was...
January 2011
14 posts
Sugar packets via Swiss Miss, via arkadiaco
My delight-squeal would have been deafening had I discovered these in my grandparent’s attic.
(saw this on swiss miss, would re-post if I could. larger here. )
Should I work for Free? →
In one short semester of teaching I heard a variation of this question at least 12 times. I tried to find a nice way of saying “NO. NEVER.”, because most of the time anyone asking a student to work for free is aiming to take advantage. But the answer isn’t actually that easy. I do free work on occasion because sometimes I want to. Every now and then there is a project for a...
cancelled.
Aside from a) Katie Holmes, and B) the fact that the kennedy family has halted production, this mini-series looks soooo good to me. Greg Kinnear is totally a Kennedy! too bad…
(incase my video doesn’t work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGf8pWpZ35k&feature=player_embedded
Hi there, Little Chief
Kaelah Bee posted a sweet little write-up about Croak & Hum (or, about me, I guess… but it feels strange to type that) yesterday. Her blog, Little Chief Honeybee is adorable and worth checking out. Kaelah is a graphic designer from Tennessee. This isn’t something I say very often, but I was born in Memphis, so… I’m a designer from Tennessee, too!
Thanks for the post,...
who knew?
I certainly didn’t, but it’s awfully fun to see!
The Merge Records blog posted this pic from Jen Hall of Brighton, England today. seems its not the only one… Hope to see one of these in real life someday!!
MEAT! POSTER! (LOTS OF ALL-CAPS!)
Last year I was taking a poster design class at RISD with the über talented and sweet Nancy Skolos of Skolos-Wedell . The class visited a poster museum/shop in Boston, and I JUST ABOUT DIED (no, really, I honestly almost fainted) when I saw this poster, apparently advertising meat. I know it doesn’t look like much as a lil’ JPG on the internet, but MY GOD it is gorgeous in its large...
meet Ramona
My good friend and longtime esthetician, Ramona Allen, is opening her own space, Shine clinical skincare, tomorrow and I could not be more proud of/excited for her! I’ve known Ramona for nearly ten years, and she’s been taking care of my (not generally very cooperative or easy to care for) skin for just as long. Ramona means serious business when it comes to skincare. Her philosophy is...
December 2010
16 posts
RIP Kodachrome
Today, kodachrome officially died.
This makes me terribly sad but, of course, its really been gone for years. As much as I love the look of a kodachrome print, I never used the film and apparently very few (or at least not enough) people have for many many years. Too bad…
Kodachrome color slide film was introduced by Kodak Eastman in 1935, and became the standard film for both amateur and...
BLACK + GOLD
black and gold packaging. yes, please.
I can’t have this ADORABLE Listerine bottle, but I spied this pepper in QFC the other day. It will have to due for now…
me
yeah, this pretty much sums me up…
(a cropped photo by Marcos Ojeda)
Man Officially Cured of HIV →
WOW. awesome.
eatingandsleeping:
The world is amazing. Hopefully this will pave the way for much-needed further stem-cell research:
“Doctors were savvy when they chose a stem cell donor for Brown. The man whose bone marrow they used has a particular genetic mutation, present in an incredibly small percentage of people, that makes him almost invulnerable to HIV. With Brown’s own defenses...
"take it to the next level"
I woke up to this client feedback via email this morning. Which reminds me of one of my fave friends’ fave projects, which I haven’t posted here yet. So, duh, I should…
Heather K Phillips, who I was lucky enough to go to RISD with, has this to say about her hilarious “Stamps of Disapproval” :
“Gone are the days of tearing work from the wall. These days,...
The Office of Letters and Light: Great Gatsby... →
I DIE. I WANT>
lettersandlight:
Heads of State, who you may remember from 30 Covers, 30 Days, have created this amazing poster based on The Great Gatsby.
Chapter four of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby reads like a VIP guest list of the Jazz Age. Taking inspiration from those pages, this poster is comprised…
Is your website fucked up? →
“I even fucking live on Capitol Hill.”
(from Marcos, from a friend of his, from some other fucking guy on craigslist/capitol hill)
*gush*
I was lucky enough to work with Sarah Jurado this fall on her new logo. We created a flexible and customizable logo for her, so that it can fit the wide range of moods and subjects she photographs. (two variations above). I’m excited to show the logo here, but I’m even more excited to simply show off SARAH:
There is so much to love about Sarah Jurado. She is one of the sweetest...
K + N
This post is even more self indulgent than normal, but…
Last month, Nick and I tied the knot here in Seattle. It was BY FAR thee most amazing night of my life. Today, I’m super excited that our wedding photos are on the blog “Style Me Pretty”, which I read daily while wedding-planning, and still check nearly every morning over coffee because it is always full of beautiful...
Student Posters!
I am so psyched for, and proud of, the students in my Vis Com class this semester at Cornish College of the Arts. They’ve been working hard for a few weeks on redesigning posters for the film “Children of Men”. We watched the film in class, (while eating delicious treats that they baked or prepared), then spent a couple classes talking about all the signs, symbolism, and...
October 2010
4 posts
NaNoWriMo →
I’m super honored to be a part of National Novel Writing Month this year! “NaNoWriMo” challenges participants to write a novel of at least 50,000 words in the 30 days of November. While I won’t be writing myself (maybe next year?), I did get to design the poster and lots of other fun stuff, like the T-shirt, web badges, stickers, and more. The folks at the Office of...
LOL
“Inspired by the architecture of Frank Gehry, this gown’s structured lines make it perfect for daring brides who want to make a sexy statement on their wedding day.”
this made me laugh this morning…
September 2010
1 post
June 2010
1 post
strong odors
Troy, over at the blog “Strong Odors”, has started a series of posts asking various creative folks a set of 8 questions. A while back he interviewed Charlyne Yi, who is pretty cool if you ask me, and today I took a stab at his questions. He’s also got some pictures of my project “Field Manual For Creative Endeavors.”
In my own thesis book I asked a handful of people...
May 2010
4 posts
getting back to work...
I took last week off, which was awesome, but it’s time to open the computer back up again. Today I’m working on updating my website with pictures of my thesis book and a few more thesis projects. I’ve also just created a C&H Shop which has some “Make, Do” items as well as a few books. I hope to get back to making and selling items again (like Lil’ Awesome,...
RISD Wintersession Workshop -
Rob Giampietro has a great post at Lined & Unlined outlining the wintersession workshop he lead for us at RISD, which is were Make, Do came from:
linedandunlined:
Above, from top: Vendors for Ooga Booga, Sister, and The Holster, at the 2009 NY Art Book Fair, PS1, Queens NY. Photos taken by Martine Syms, Golden Age, Chicago IL.
In 2004 the New York Times Magazine’s annual Year in Ideas...
I've got some questions for you. (poolrules.org)
Appropriation is a sticky issue. It is often negatively viewed as stealing, copying, or laziness. And yet, plenty of artists and designers (myself included) continue to use it as a mode of creation. Much of my thesis so far has been about defining working strategies for myself, that will allow me to create meaningful work from pre-existing elements, and avoid the unpleasant trappings of...
RISD Graphic Design Graduate Exhibition + Make, Do
The graduate Graphic Design program is proud to announce their group show as part of Rhode Island School of Design’s 2010 Annual Graduate Thesis exhibition, which opens on May 20 and is on view through June 5, 2010. Individual thesis work from each of the thirteen 2010 Graphic Design MFA candidates will be on display at the Rhode Island Convention Center.
For the first time, the 2010...
April 2010
2 posts
from my friend, to you:
visit: www.mipiacekatedesign.com/p/secret-project.html
"If Entire Books Can Be Sampled......Why Not...
I’ve been a little too overwhelmed with this whole writing-a-thesis thing lately to post very often. So, in the spirit of my thesis, I give you… Someone else’s blog post!
I enjoyed this post by Mike Masnick, but I may have enjoyed the comments and his links more. Masnick makes it sounds like Girl Talk is luckylucky that he’s never been sued, butI thought Girl Talk gets...