hey, i can dream, no?

dream apartment - (that grand piano? ... melt)

dream vacation

dream man (um, kidding ... but WOW.)

addicted to ffffound.com

Ah, inspiration hunts. One of my top favorite pastimes. The other snow day, my creative director was out, so one of the designers here suggested I go through some books and fonts for inspiration and to get a feel for how interiors are put together. I spent the day galavanting through fields of beautifully worded novels, poems, incredible designs and art, and, naturally, got inspired. It's the best form of energy, really. I was going through the Communication Arts illustration annual and was reading about one designer named Rachel Matts who referenced http://ffffound.com as one of her top sources for inspiration. Curiously, I ventured to browse the site and am now utterly addicted. Here are some images I found today that I absolutely love love loved.

happy holidays

My internship at HarperCollins begins January 10th, however, I've got a decent quantity of free time on my hands until then. I've got a major to-read, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude on the agenda, but I'm trying not to get too ambitious with this break, as is my usual tendency, so I'll finish what I can finish. I've been having great times catching up with old friends and relatives, building an anthology of quite inane, but hilarious-to-us jokes. I hope to do the same while in VA. I've been reading a lot of news, just to catch up with the rest of the world since design school serves as a nice little bubble for me. But I'm going to try to get into some surrious literature - I want to feel moved again. To anyone who reads this: Happy Holidays, and do enjoy this precious time with family and friends!

secret language - a book of typography

This book was certainly a challenge to put together; my objective was to hit a certain point conceptually without getting too contrived. Design is a precarious thing in that regard - it's not easy to put a finger on what works. Some of this book is personal, some just ideas, some inspired by others' experiences, but all referring to topics of universality (for the most part). The tone I aimed for was somewhat darker than my usual stuff - I wanted to touch on, as featured on page 21, the seamy sides of life, also on oxymorons, contradictions, quandaries of our existence. The intro I wrote goes a bit more in-depth, but i wanted to present this series. I bounded the book myself - a process in and of itself.

rings i designed and created

wine bottle quotations line