free people

been loving the free people blog lately.. especially this window display from their new store in seattle.

3 blank notes

really enjoyed making these little notecards.. i will have to think of some different ideas for more :)

used: bristol board, watercolor, brown prismacolor pen

pretty cool application that tracks your mouse movements.. IOGraph

under a killer blue sky

for you ♥...

drawing on this beautiful saturday afternoon... i love fall so much. i wish fall break was actually a break, however :(

be the twig

some notes from the first year studio as they work on their "container for 12 twigs" project.

eames molded plastic

i'm in love with a chair.
many more depictions of this beauty to come.
(see heather's drawing here!)

rings

a few little drawings i did to (hopefully) frame and sell at the tate street festival. the sales will benefit the school our studio class is designing to be built in kyekyewere, ghana this january.

inspiration drop

lately i've been in a design/creative funk. in an attempt to break out, this post is a gathering of lots of different things i've been loving lately. i think i should do this more often :)

(sources at the end)

















sources (in order of appearance):
lena wolff
the annuals
anthropologie | june 2009 catalog
passing notes
the sea defense coffee table/shelves
egg press
thevoicethatsaid | flickr
yarmee | etsy
anthropologie | merriment tee
objectified
the silent giants
widjedal racki bergerhoff architects
ben klinger and shay carmon
the bungaloo | etsy
design*sponge sneak peek | shay ometz

iphone fever

my whole family is catching iphone 4g fever this week, in anticipation of thursday's release date. first image made in my brand new illustrator cs5, for father's day :)

arizona flowers

Testing out Garrett's new camera...

tilt-shift

Found this pretty neat website today that allows you to upload photos and quickly create "tilt-shift" effects, which makes everything look like a tiny model! I tested it on a few different kinds of photos, and landscapes with far away things in the background seemed to look the best. This one turned out really cool looking- one of my favorite pictures I took in Italy.


Could be a useful one day, and it's really fun to play with!

more illustrator fun

fonts
Arsenale White (with extra line added to the beginning of the L)
Vegur Light

colors
#3B3B3B (grey)
#889BB5 (blue)

wasting time on illustrator

This started out as a doodle in my sketchbook.. so many possibilities with this thing.. I like it.

no more plastic bottles

+ some notes from social/behavioral.

2010

A new year, a new semester, a new decade.

2nd semester always feels so much quicker than the 1st. With spring and summer on the way, it's not hard to guess why.

my resolutions:
get a job
eat healthier
save money
stay on top of my school work
get good grades
stay motivated
relax more
draw more
stay happy

experimentation

Messing around with a photo I took of our site in Durham.

what a beautiful day

Today was absolutely beautiful!! So I relaxed with the window open and watercolored for a bit. This is my favorite time of year, when the weather finally starts cooling down and the humidity is mostly gone. You might recognize the vases, which were birthday present from my parents. :)

More studio project updates coming soon!

what shade of green is that?

A poster/flyer I designed for Deborah Dunning, a guest speaker for IIDA.

lots of good stuff in nyc!

Over the summer, I had the opportunity to visit the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. It was incredible to actually be in the space after learning about it, and seeing so many pictures. The building itself was just as much a work of art as any of the pieces on display, so it was almost overwhelming to take everything in. Aside from just being there, it also happened to be during the 50th anniversary; the entire way up the spiral in the areas overlooking the rotunda, there were hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright's drawings, renderings, plans, and models of almost every building he'd designed. Sadly, no photographs were allowed above the ground level, but I did manage to sneak a few from the top looking down.. how could I not?!




I also had the chance to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was ecstatic to see many of the chairs and artifacts we studied in history and theory last year! (as well as some amazing modern art pieces.. my favorites were the Rothko's) The museum is home to Nothing Continues to Happen, the Zigzag chair, MR Chair, Wassily chair, an Eames molded plywood (with cow hide), Charles Rennie Mackintosh's washstand, and a few others. Very exciting, as I had no clue that those would be there; the whole thing was a great experience. (Photos were allowed at this one!)

this has got to be...

quite possibly, the cutest thing i've ever seen. (link)