I literally just finished watching this TED Talk by artist Alexa Meade and wanted to share it immediately. Alexa paints ON PEOPLE. She did a series of paintings where her collaborator posed painted in a pool of milk. The way she came up with her ideas and how she...
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When I saw these clean, graphic cake posters by UK branding agency Purpose, there’s no way I couldn’t share them. I love how the company took classic desserts like New York Cheesecake and Tiramisu and reimagined them with simple lines and a delicious color...
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Last month I had the great pleasure of catching up with my friend Tif Fussell and writing a story about her inspiring home and “atelier-of-sorts” for Seattle Refined. You might know Tif as her crafty alter ego, Dottie Angel. It’s hard to describe...
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THEME: WAITING Left: Photo by The Cat You and Us Right: The Whaling Widow. Photo by Caroline Knopf. Image via Behance. Mood Board Monday is a weekly coast-to-coast visual creative collaboration exercise in art direction with Nancy Herrmann.
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THEME: SOLE MATES Left: Photograph by Jesse Chamberlin for Designlovefest Right: Photograph by Andrea Spotorno for 10 Magazine (10 Men) Mood Board Monday is a weekly coast-to-coast visual creative collaboration exercise in art direction with Nancy...
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I’m pretty sure that I first learned about Swedish interior stylist Tina Hellberg from this lovely post on The Artful Desperado about the Swedish Elle Decoration online image archive. I fell in love with her stellar styling work instantly, along with some of the...
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I’m going to keep this short and sweet. I’m having a summer art sale! I’m in the mood to clear out all of my existing work and start fresh in the fall, so I’ve priced ORIGINAL collages and abstract watercolor paintings (not prints!) at $75 or...
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THEME: OBJECTIFY Left: Historic Problem, (2013) by Urs Fischer. Photo by Mats Nordman. Right: Jello Mold, (2013). Painting by Arnout Van Albada. Mood Board Monday is a weekly coast-to-coast visual creative collaboration exercise in art direction with Nancy...
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I’m super inspired by color and I love color blocking. It’s even more of a bonus when it comes in the form of modern architecture. These buildings were created by Mexican architect Luis Barragán. Most, if not all, of these shots are from the late...
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Between Mood Board Monday and my latest column Art + Object, you can probably guess that one of my favorite things to do is putting together complementary images to craft visual stories (aka, art direction.) So let’s just get right to it! I first saw Sergei...
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