So I was wondering recently, does anybody even write letters anymore? We do in our household because we have a few loving family members from another generation that still enjoy putting a cursive scrawl to paper and thus we would occasionally receive them in the mail. This would always prompt me to reach for some copy paper lying around (ugh) …
Illustrated Friday: Wedding Favors with a Local Twist
What wedding favors would be suitable when the Swiss bridegroom has a large entourage from Switzerland attending a local semi-traditional wedding in tropical Penang Island? Swiss chocolates, an imported local luxury, would not do! -says the bride, with a chuckle. Ittybitty ‘wedding cake’ squares in disposable cardboard boxes, typical of many local weddings is the comfortable fallback option, albeit boring …
Atelier Thursday: A TreeSpace Studio Seeding Kit
Bumper edition of Atelier Thursday, getting ready to distribute these, been working on a TreeSpace Studio seeding kit for awhile. I wanted them to reflect my philosophy for the studio, the style and of course be sustainable or precious. The business cards are sort of tongue in cheek, seeded handmade-paper cards for seeds of a relationship. They really need to …
An Enchanted Walk
The wonderful thing about living in this part of LA, is the amazing little worlds we can escape to no more than 15 minutes from our doorstep. Before I moved to this city, I never imagined that it would be ridden with hills and canyons with so much breathtaking beauty my heart aches everytime I see it. I took these …
Illustrated Friday: Love letters
What if two people loved each other so much but were from opposite ends of the world? What if all they wanted for their wedding was to announce to everyone in their lives how much they cared for each other? Why, they would send a love letter!
Atelier Thursday: African-themed Beering boxes
This is a little preview of what I have been working on with Janine, the inspired founder of the non-profit organization Greenwave. (Incidently, she wrote a lovely post yesterday about TreeSpace Studio here, still so thrilled to be featured, thanks so much Janine-she really managed to capture a lot of what the studio aspires to be!). Janine, who is quite …
Custom Packaging From Trash: Part 1
Do you make cards, cakes, candies, jewelry, accessories? Here is a design challenge: can durable, cool and awesome packaging be made from items from our trashcans at home at work? It needs to be 1. durable, 2. upcycled/recycled 3. handmade, 4. quick to reproduce, 5. affordable, 6. can be custom-illustrated. For the first part of this ongoing design challenge, I …
Just a little preview for Atelier Thursday: { Keep }
My dear readers, very busy today, leaving for a weekend wedding trip for a lovely couple in Florida (I made their invitations, see here, the beach wedding one) , and trying to get some stuff done before! So here’s a short post, a little sneak peek snapshot of what’s upcoming from the atelier. I’ll let you try to decipher what …
A Camp and A Gnarly Tree
We went camping over the weekend, and saw lots of scraggly bare trees with interesting shapes. I tried out this little drawing experiment I’ve been meaning to do while perching on a rock overlooking the beautiful Ojai Valley mountains! Yes it is an ongoing obsession with tree spaces for me!
Inspired Monday: Charles and Ray Eames
” Instead of an umbrella effect, he has sort an umbrella form-that is, an assembly of components that have to be forged and linked in his own shop.” -Connections: The Work of Charles and Ray Eames, 1977 I’ve always associated Charles and Ray Eames with a rigid and clean sense of design, as is found in their famous Eames House …