Click-through screen shots of six sites we look at daily:

A ritual we quickly established on our road trip was for me to look up the next small town we were coming up to on my iPhone while he drove. I Wiki-ed dozens of tiny towns in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. More often than not we enjoyed the “facts” of town, most of [...]

My camera and iPhone are full of these: “In Defense of the Poor Image,” a provocatively smart and complex essay by Hito Steyerl.
The poor image tends towards abstraction: it is a visual idea in its very becoming.

We had been contemplating what to do for our anniversary, until we saw a special for the Ace Hotel & Swim Club offered by Jetsetter on Gilt. Both longtime Californians, she had been to Palm Springs once, and me, never. I wanted to tell the story of the weekend in photos, but I realized upon [...]

Sometimes, while driving, we roll down our windows and click and shoot pictures with our little Canon digital camera. Actually, we do it ALL the time– and probably shouldn’t. It may be more distracting and dangerous then talking on our iPhones–at least for whichever person is doing the driving. But even if it is the [...]

Dominus Winery.  Yountville, California 2008
Wine.  Rain.  A year ago.
Wine.  Rain.  Today.
Building a wine website  and looking at wine labels for design inspiration.  Maybe I’ll even open a bottle soon for additional inspiration.
Cheers.

Brand identity, 3D modeling, greeting cards, photography, website development, styling, fine art, merchandising, furniture design, installations, architecture, brand identity, and sending people free stuff…THIS IS WHAT WE DO.

The perfect sign to come across while on a walk to Staples to buy rubber cement.

Our latest card for Valerie Confections is all about fall picnicking, best friends, and the best PB&J you’ve ever had.

One of the reasons for our impromptu road trip was that I wanted to go on a photography mission.  I have a very fancy Nikon that generally sits on a shelf while I snap away with my iPhone camera.  We pulled over to this beautiful grassy beach to relax and shoot some photos.  I took [...]

While researching a project on Sheila Levrant de Bretteville for a school project last year I came across this interesting photograph of the designer, artist, and educator:

There she was, covering her eye, laughing…what was going on here?
Following the link, I discovered a terrific photo-diary being kept by Ahn Sang-Soo. Each image (over 3,300 to date) [...]