A tribute to St Patrick’s Day! Short post today folks, expecting a guest in town and I have lots of tasks to complete before the weekend! Wanted to show you a little lightbulb from recently. I have been working with Janine of Green Wave, (mentioned here) and a recent project was for a vectorized one-color version of their color logo …
Atelier Tuesday: Envelope-less Letter-writing Set
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 …
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 …
Illustrated Friday: GO
“Go uses the most elemental materials and concepts — line and circle, wood and stone, black and white — combining them with simple rules to generate subtle strategies and complex tactics that stagger the imagination. ” – Iwamoto Kaoru, 9-dan professional Go player and former Honinbo title holder This submission comes from Alan, a huge GO fan who is on the …
Sneak Preview and Pre-orders: ‘Dream Big’ Cards!
Update: Dream Big pre-orders have ended but the item is now available in all its natural, deckled glory on Etsy here. Thanks for looking!!