Summer, like the air in the autumn, always makes me nostalgic. For what, though, I’m not entirely sure. A few years back, I spent the summer in the Catskills at the Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts as an artist assistant and instructor. It was a beautiful time and every year, I miss those days. [...]
Just after returning from the DR, I had a day or so to wander the streets of New York. Wanting to check out the Bauhaus Exhibition at the MoMA, I called my city-dwelling brother (one of three brothers total, and a sister) and we headed uptown. These are my feet on the escalator to the [...]
Last week, I had the wonderful opportunity to celebrate the New Year in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. The most striking elements of the landscape, to me, were the hand-painted signs. Everywhere I looked there were beautifully drawn letters advertising everything from the Internet to the Boston Celtics (though I didn’t get a picture [...]
Continuing on with my adventures in New York City, last night I had the pleasure of attending the AIGA/NY Fresh Dialogue 25, titled Design Blogging is Changing the World. I wanted to know if this was in fact true. In an almost-full auditorium at Parsons, four leading bloggers presented their work and then participated in [...]
I am spending a few days this week in my old, beloved stomping grounds: New York City. While here, there are a few exhibits and events I am super excited to check out and thought I’d share them here. First on the list was the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum where the Design for a Living [...]
(Photo: beach at CEDO, at low tide) As pointed out to me before my arrival, Puerto Peñasco, Mexico is a place of extremes. The sun is relentless and evasive, from which there is little relief; the desert is vast and revealing; there is an honesty inherent in the way humans exist there, openly, in shanty [...]