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I am a designer, creator, and maker living in San Francisco. Looking for inspiration in the world and on the web. Visit me on twitter, flickr, or my design studio.
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Category Archives: creativity
weekend sun & sunprints
i spent a lot of time in the sun this weekend: in my backyard, at the farmer’s market, on my bike, across town, and outside some great echo park coffee shops. i love that summer in LA starts in april.
i finally played with some sunprint paper that i had bought a few months ago. this [...]
the love of glass jars
recently, my mom and my aunt had a shared revelation: they both suffer from (but mostly celebrate) The Love of Glass Jars–the insatiable need to buy, scrub clean, and save any neat glass containers that they find. as their collections build, the jars are repurposed to store food, buttons, art supplies, and collections of all [...]
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my first letterpress adventure
earlier this month, i went on a one-day letterpress adventure at the international printing museum in carson (printmuseum.org). their introduction to letterpress workshop (which was i was psyched to attend) was a great mix of fun, informative, and inspiring–and the museum itself is a hidden gem for anyone interested in printmaking.
the day started with a [...]
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learning letterpress
i’m excited to be attending a one-day letterpress workshop tomorrow at the book arts institute. i’ve been wanting to do this for months, but timing, cost, and location never seemed to work. and then days after making a resolution to myself, i landed on the book arts website. perfect!
it’s a part of the international printing [...]
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creativity: notebook sketches