new project with amy :)

I've been posting inspiration and fun things over at Hello Studio lately. It's a little more whimsical and internet-y than what I've been posting here lately (all clippings). And of course there's Amy's inspiration as well.....Take a look

2001 (book)

New year, new work, new purpose.....getting back into the blogging habit with posts from outside this virtual box. I'll be sharing clippings, photos and ideas from the 'real' world, starting with a quick scan of some of my work that's been included in the book 'Made & Sold: Toys, T-Shirts, Prints, Zines and Other Stuff.'.

Shame!

I'm ashamed to admit I managed to erase all of the photos off of this blog. I know I could blame being a new mother and going back to work, but really it was standard issue impatience. I was updating my own website and clearing off my server without checking or thinking. AAGH!

I've told myself I will find most of the images, but I don't believe myself.....feel free to goad me.

I do plan to post new work as well as new interesting inspiration, and in fact all of my past writing is still on here....so please don't go away.

Above is the amazing 7th anniversary present from my husband. Brass.

New project

Please excuse the light posting, I'm busy with my latest special project. Willa-Clare arrived on March 6 at 6lbs 6oz and 19 inches.

Learn to knit

Believe it or not, everyone wears this expression as they learn to knit!

dye class

It seems oh so long ago now, but in November I taught a class on Natural Dyeing at Etsy Labs and I found a few snaps of the class at work:

It looks like all of the classes at the Labs are ending this month and moving over to 3rd Ward (which has an awesome space, I visited this weekend!). So it looks like today will be my last class at Etsy.....but....stay tuned, I expect to have some classes set up with 3rd Ward soon. woo!

thoughts on "handmade"

Way back in October Core77 posted about an opening at Kiosk (who I love), but what interested me most was some of the writing about the project, read my copy & paste job below (since the exhibition is long gone....):

What is it about things made with our own hand that makes them more fun to use? Why is a rough handmade aesthetic so appealing right now? How can making an object intentionally less "functional" bring us closer to the pure experience of using that object?

I think about this a lot, and it really resonates with me. I wish I had gone to the exhibit because maybe it would have helped me answer some of these questions! Anyone out there have any good theories about the appeal of handmade objects or how functionality (or the lack of) affects the experience of using an object? I would love to hear others' thoughts....

Maker Faire Austin 2008!

I spent the weekend before last in Austin Texas promoting the Virgin Knitters project. I taught about 20 new people to knit and they all promised to send their first scarf in to the collection. It was so much fun to meet all these new people and talk about other people's interesting projects too.


Here's all the Lucky Scarves I've collected so far all laid out for display. You wouldn't believe how many people wanted to know if they could buy a scarf!


Matthew from Alabama was my very first knitter at Maker Faire!


This was the most knitters I taught at one time.


And this was the fastest knitter, see her finished scarf here.

Also, sadly, I did not get a chance to teach Bill Murray to knit. He must have gone by when all of my chairs were full :)

Looking back, I wish I had taken a picture of every knitter. There were so many great stories and people to remember: Zach the boy wonder knitter, the chemistry major thinking about changing his major to textiles, the woman wanting to knit socks to help her sons itchy legs, the mother daughter knitting team, the man knitting the fishing net, the girl from Nevada, and of course all the folks who said they'd come back and then did!

Good (big) news for Virgin Knitters!

Guess what? I'm going to be at the Maker Faire in Austin on October 18 & 19 to promote the Virgin Knitters project! Look! Hopefully I'll be teaching lots more new knitters and also getting some new interest in the project!

I am so so excited to be going down there and meeting new knitters and talk to people about my project!!

See all the cool projects at Maker Faire here, and come if you are in the area. I'll be bringing my super knitting dad to talk about his experience being a Virgin Knitter!



Yay!!!

New school year!

Welcome back from summer! That sounds kind of sad, doesn't it? Well, as for me, it's been a very busy summer. Not only has my day job been extremely busy (I'm getting an assistant!), but I've also been doing lots of side projects.



The biggest one has been with Etsy. I taught my first class (Printing with Heat!) and did a live chat (heat transfer printing basics), and filmed a video for their site about natural dyeing. I also still have a few more classes coming up this fall. It's been so exciting and the folks at Etsy are super sweet and awesome! Actually, Etsy Labs has all kinds of classes that I would totally recommend: bookbinding, screenprinting, jewelry! Just to name a few. You know, I totally have an Etsy shop too, Nottene, I'm just a terrible entrepreneur and haven't promoted it at all....(see my banner above?)

So the Print with heat class went pretty well, I think. At least well enough for us to want to run it again (date TBA). My biggest problem was that there is so much stuff you can do it was hard to pack it all in AND give everyone time to play with all the materials.

Oooh! I just looked online and the video is up! Yikes! I don't think I can watch myself yet....

My upcoming classes are Natural Dyeing in September and Feltmaking from Scratch in October. And another session of Printing with Heat will be scheduled for November (TBA)!!

P.S. for anyone in the first class looking for flocking suppliers (or just anyone interested), I just heard of a new one (new to me I mean): Hobby & Craft Flocking Supplies
I havne't ordered from them, take your chances...

P.P.S. Believe it or not, I have a bunch of posts lined up for this week and I hope to get back on the ol' blog wagon this fall :)

Happy Holiday Weekend!

I'm off for some R&R this long weekend, but I thought I'd toss out an older photo I found of a nonwoven silk piece I did in school. Not the most summery thing, but there you go....

Storey Story

Showstudio just posted that the finale film of Helen Storey's latest project "Wonderland" is now online, and it reminded me that I had written up a little pitch about her and her work for a magazine....never got published, but seems as good as an excuse as any to put it up here for web enjoyment.

What is the purpose of a dress that disappears, anyone would ask. But for Helen Storey all art has to have a purpose and her latest work ‘Wonderland’ is no exception. The project, which is a collaboration with scientist Tony Ryan, is a collection of 6 dissolving dresses created at London College of Fashion that will tour nationally this year. The collection speaks of disposable fashion, but takes it to the extreme. Storey is creating dresses that commit suicide and is inviting us to watch. She hopes to open up debate and encourage discussion about the environment, technology, and fashion.

This is not Storey's first attempt at bridging science and fashion. 'Primitive Streak' was a groundbreaking collaboration in 1997 between Helen and her sister Dr. Kate Storey, a biologist. The collection illustrated the first 1000 hours of life, telling the story of human development through clothing. The primitive streak, after which the project is named, is a formative development in the human embryo that some bioethicists believe signifies the creation of a unique, potential human being.

Before Storey started breaking boundaries, she had a fabled background in fashion. Daughter of playwright David Storey, she landed a plush job at Valentino in 1982 after finishing college. Her own fashion label was launched in 1984 with Helen eventually winning Most Innovative Designer in 1990 after her collection entitled "Rage". She was known as a designer of 'shock-frocks', using shocking imagery, displaying bare bums, as well as using materials like bin bags and paper trash to make evening wear.

The business lasted ten years. In her own words, "In 1995, struck by personal tragedy, a sense of total burn out and having lost my direction, the business was closed and in its place I sat still to contemplate the future." Helen struggled to figure out what to do next. She wrote her autobiography "Fighting Fashion", did charity work, and collected unemployment. Her sister sent her a brochure from the Wellcome Trust about bringing together artists and scientists. That lead to 'Primitive Streak'.

Storey seems to have found her way again. She and her partner Caroline Coates established the Helen Storey Foundation, a non-profit arts organization to promote creativity and innovation. Since then, Storey has developed emotional, large-scale projects that connect science, art, fashion, and humanity. Storey is currently a Visiting Professor of Material Chemistry at Sheffield University.

Throughout her career as a fashion designer, Helen repeatedly expresses doubt about being a fashion designer. In the catalogue essay for her ten year retrospective, Helen says, "Designers should be looking at why they want to be designers in a world that doesn’t need them." Now her work presents clothing as art, not meant to go into production and sold in stores, but as items with meaning and the power to communicate.

When Helen brought the 'Primitive Streak' collection to China she explained to students there that she moved towards experimental work in order to create work that will last. How strange that her most ambitious project to date is about creating dresses that will disappear.

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There's great press/images on the Helen Storey Foundation website, a few of my favorites:

L to R: a dress from the Primitive Streak collection, Christy Turlington in Vogue, a ball skirt made of bin liners

I'm teaching some classes at Etsy

Hey long lost internet! I know I've been neglecting you, but I swear I have been doing lots of work :)

I'm teaching some classes at Etsy Labs in Brooklyn this August, September and October. They are going to be really fun affordable classes (see the listings below) in Printing, Dyeing, and Felting. I'm both nervous and excited to teach textiles and printing.....yikes! Come down to the Labs, everyone is so nice there!


*Print with Heat!*
Saturday, August 16, 2008
1:00pm-4:00pm
Screen printing is messy and digital printing is so expensive, why not learn to put imagery onto fabric using heat! Etsy Labs has a sweet little heat press where we can print on t-shirts, dresses, pillowcases, you name it! And you can continue to print at home using your regular home iron. I'll teach a variety of ways to print using heat to transfer your print onto a range of surfaces. We will print with colored paints, metallic foil, and flock. I will bring all the printing materials, you just bring what you want to print on and ideas of what you want to print.


*Intro to Dyeing*
Saturdays, September 20 & 27, 2008
1:00pm-4:00pm
There is more to dyeing fabric than just an ol' box of RIT dye! The colors from natural dyes are very soft and rich and impossible to create with modern chemical dyes. The first class we'll learn how to mix up the natural dyes. You will learn how to make natural dye from vegetables, spices and leaves (provided). We will also try a variety of other hot and cold water chemical dyes the second week. Bring in any fabric you want to dyes. The lighter the base fabric, the more accurate the dye will be, but sometimes lovely layers can be created by dyeing over other things. We will also practice techniques to create patterns through dyeing, using methods like shibori & batik.


*Feltmaking from Scratch*
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
6:30pm-9:00pm
Spend an evening fooling around with wool. Learn to make felt from wool fibers with just soap and water. Felt is so easy to work with and handmade felt is so much nicer than what you can buy at the craft store! Make fabric, buttons, rope, balls & pompoms and a whole lot more. Come with ideas for what you need in your own work and we will figure out how to make it. I will bring a wools in a variety of colors for everyone to play with. if you're not sure what to make with this amazing fiber I will have a couple of project ideas to give you. Felt is fun! No experience necessary.

New bag

I got a chance to spend a week with the patternmakers in the workshop at work last week and I designed and developed 2 bags of my own design (not for a collection to be produced for my job). Here is the first one:







The flap is laser cut with a laurel pattern and underlaid with mahogany suede. The bag itself is a sea blue "soft port" leather. The strap grip is gray soft port too and it's woven based on a pattern fram a Chinese Finger Trap. The hardware is all antique brass, and the lining is a deep gold asian faille.

I worked with an awesome patterncutter (thanks Koko!) who helped me work out all the details, specs, and kinks. And of course the machinists & craftsmen from the studio showed me all of the tricks of the trade and made the bag look as beautiful as it could be. I'm so thrilled with the experience and have a lovely bag to show for it as well.

I'll post pictures of the second bag when it's finished. We ran out of time for me to be in the studio so I'll have to wait for them to sew it up without me, but I got to do a lot more of the patternmaking for this one so I'm very proud.

For my Knitters

I'm doing a group knitting project for next fall (see here) so I'm going to keep my entries very knit-centric for a while to inspire my knitters! Please click on the link above to read more about it (and see the first pictures).

My first post has to be about Net Granny! Iread about this site recently on Craftzine, and it's a service that let's you order a custom-made pair of socks hand-knitted by the Swiss grandmother of your choice. Look:



You click on the picture of the Granny you want to knit your socks, then you choose which socks you want, and you can see how long the wait is for your socks, and how many pairs of socks she is already knitting. I wonder how they found all these grannies....Here's a blurb from their website:

Until now, handknitted socks have been mainly sold on rural markets or in handcraft shops. Distribution via online-shop appeals to the modern urban people, who is used to fulfill his needs on the internet and still loves nothing more than cozy handmade socks. On the other side the grannies, all passionnate knitters, have found a vast clientele who cherishes their work.

Sweet!

My own toenail necklace of sorts....

A little project of organizing some trinkets last weekend....click image to enlarge

Shoes!

Finally, with the new camera I bought J for Christmas, here are the shoes I made this fall. I am also still working on a pair of sandals that I didn't finish in class.


These are my early sketches. I still wish I had spent more time searching out green & yellow leather, but my budget and time allotment did not intersect at a place where green and yellow leathers existed.



Once I bought my lasts and materials, and practiced my first pullovers, I sketched out what my final projects would look like. The bright pastel green pebbled leather interior of Kempton 2 is my favorite detail. Kempton 3 has a knitted patch on the front and is trimmed in wool. The name of my shoe styles come from the last, which says Kempton on it. Kempton is also the name of the town where my sister lives.



The final shoes! Kempton 3 is on the left, it has a wool sock liner & contrast brown insole. Kempton 2 on the right has contrasting tongue and quarters (brown & pink, hard to see in these pics). To make the bumpy toes I learned how to build up my last. The most difficult part for me was the sewing because I stubbornly refused to buy new needles and bobbin cases for the machines at school. So I wrestled with my domestic machine instead. Everything got sewn eventually, but looking back I wish I'd just spent the $20 or whatever.

2008 desk calendar

I know I've been neglecting this blog and my personal work lately, but I've come back with a little gift. I made a 2008 desk calender that you can printout on a color printer (on letter sized paper) and trim to fit in a CD case which you then fold back so it sits up as a nice little desk calendar. I saw a picture of one on one of the craft sites I read and decided it would be so easy to make myself one. So I thought I'd share with all of you out there in antonement for my blatant disregard of the internet lately. Enjoy:


(click here to download)

Of course, I can't find the image of the calendar online anymore, and as you know my camera is still on the fritz (christmas is coming!)....so email if you can't figure it out, and meanwhile I will try to get at least a camera phone pic of my finished desk calendar.

Edited to add:

You get the idea?

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To be fair (to myself) I haven't been totally ignoring my personal work. They are all of my drawings in the desk calendar. And I have just finished my first two pairs of shoes (so much better than that first little thing I showed you). And I have my third and final pair almost done. So I will post pics of those shortly and then I can feel nice and accomplished before the holidays. Which is really one of the best parts of this season, isn't it?

Spats Tabulations (for the curious)

1. Are you:
22% A. Male
78%B. Female

2. What are spats?
90% A. Covering for the top of the shoe and the lower part of the leg (correct)
10% B. Two tone leather shoes
0% C. Leggings (correct in Japan!)
0% D. Leather suspenders

3. When do you think people wore spats? (all answers are correct!)
50% A. Pre WWI
29% B. 1930s-40s
6% C. 1700s
15% D. They still do!

4. Who wears spats? (all answers are correct!)
44% A. Military personnel (6% said only military)
32% B. Women
88% C. Men (16% said only men)
65% D. Fashionable people (6% said only fashionable people)
29% E. Workers like welders, loggers, etc.
26% F. My ancestors/relatives
41% G. Movie stars
(12.5% chose all answers)

5. Have you ever worn spats?
12.5% A. Yes
87.5% B. No
(0 men ever wore spats)

6. If not, would you in future?
41% (15% men, 50% women) A. Yes
50% (85% men, 40% women) B. No
(9% wrote in 'maybe' (0% men, 10% women))

7. Do you think spats are in style now?
12.5% (20% women, 0% men) A. Yes
87.5% (80% women, 100% men) B. No

8. Please list any designers or shops where you have seen spats:
–http://wwwshoeblog.com/blog/spats
–There's a tiny mens haberdashery in the East Villiage--9th St. I think I saw them there. Maybe vintage though...
–Does Mr. Peanut cout?How about Scrooge McDuck? Mickey Mouse wore spats sometimes.
–I have no idea what spats are
–SJP used to wear a pair of Calvin Klein ones
–Camper had a pair of heels with a removable spat (only covered the foot, not the ankle), Oh and I also really wanted to get this pair of boots from Sacco a few years ago that had snap off spats so you either had flats or boots. Turned out the flats were a bad shape though.
–none
–Chanel & Prada
–Never, except for the History Channel
–Tuxedo shops
–Have never seen them in the last 55 years. I think my mother had some in the old halloween box when I was a kid.

9. If not, do you think spats will come back in style?
56% A. Yes
34% B. No
(11% wrote in 'maybe')

10. What do you think is the future of spats?
-I don't think about the future of spats
-I think of them as a top hat or cane
-Actually, I think current fashion is spat-inspired. You know the long skinny jean pulled way over the top of the show, even over stillettos. I guess the tops of shoes are stilll considered unsightly.
-The damdest things always manage to come back once--I doubt spats will be any exception.
-I think they will be very popular unless stirrup pants beat them out.
-need a famous movie star or singer to bring it back in style but it will be short lived.
-Not my style...who knows!
-If anything, a short lived comeback in fashion. Mostly, I think nothing of them as I had to google it just to know what they were.
-I have always wanted a pair honestly. I would love a pair of monochromatic, non-contrasty ones to fit over a nice stylish ankle boot to give the option of wearing knee high boots.
-They might come back as part of the whole new dapper thing, esp. among chic black men.
-I think spats will come back in style as a runway thing (gimmick?), but that there won't be popular or widespread adaptation of them. In fact, I know I have seen them portrayed this way in magazines, but I forget when/where, Kind of like how I got an email the other day about the return of the bowler hat. Okay, maybe for the few, but not for the many.
-No future
-Bring them on!
-You never know, fashion seems to look back a lot, perhaps they will find a new life for a time.
-The cabaret, burlesque thing is big now so maybe
-I'm not sure. i think it would be great to have a standard shoe and utilize spats as an accessory.
-Thigh high tights, leg warmers, thigh high boots, I saw a pair on Zappos that were knee high but had decorative leather overlay that went from mid-calf down over the heel and toe. Boots with built in leather spats!
-only a very limited market (for the flamboyant among us)
-paired with wedges or high heels in bright plaids or dyed leather with unusual textures and unexpected features (eg leather frog clasps) and worn as an alternative to boots
-As long as there are marching bands...there's a future for spats (hahahahaha) Seriously, I think they have the potential to be a "cool" accessory for people/consumers who like to deviate a but frm the "typical" fashion trends. They seem like fun to me!
-Alternative styles stemmiing from spats (i.e. spats incorporated into sandals)
-A bright one!
-They could replace legwarmers
-I don't see a future for them
-I suspect they will continue to be reserved for period costumes, marching bands, and maybe military
-I can see some variation in women's footwear coming back around in the next couple of years--maybe with a high heel.

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Thanks everyone for your answers! I will be presenting my survey results in a small class for work....I found it very interesting to see all the different viewpoints on the future of spats especially.

Spats!

Hey, anybody out there! I'm doing a survery about spats for a project for my footwear class for work. Got a minute?

SPATS QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Are you:
A. Male
A. Female

2. What are spats?
A. Covering for the top of the shoe and the lower part of the leg
B. Two tone leather shoes
C. Leggings
D. Leather suspenders

3. When do you think people wore spats?
A. Pre WWI
B. 1930s-40s
C. 1700s
D. They still do!

4. Who wears spats? (circle as many as appropriate)
A. Military personnel
B. Women
C. Men
D. Fashionable people
E. Workers like welders, loggers, etc.
F. My ancestors/relatives
G. Movie stars

5. Have you ever worn spats?
A. Yes
B. No

6. If not, would you in future?
A. Yes
B. No

7. Do you think spats are in style now?
A. Yes
B. No

8. Please list any designers or shops where you have seen spats:


9. If not, do you think spats will come back in style?
A. Yes
B. No

10. What do you think is the future of spats?

My first shoe!

I really have been busy....okay, you can see some glue and it's not really even a flattering shoe, but last week:

I! made! my! first! shoe!

(yes, last week. Work is busy!)

Time & travel connected

On Friday September 14, 2007 at 6PM EST performances occurred across 21 cities spanning the globe. This project, called 21 Cities at Once Performed, was part of the Conflux Festival. Curated by Nat Slaughter and Hope Hilton, the way they write described the project really resonated with my interest in clothing:

As a curatorial collective, we are interested in wireless network systems existing not only through the use of computers and the internet, but through a human awareness of simultaneous participation and collective consciousness.

I think clothing can be a "wireless network system" that is outside all things tech-y. Ideas about social status & behavior are communicated through clothing, as well as messages of approval, resistance, and memory. I wrote a bit more about these ideas here and in my MA dissertation.

At the time of the performance I was scheduled to fly out of LaGuardia airport in New York City. I figured I would be right over the city at exactly 6PM. The idea of being over the city instead of on the streets like everyone else intrigued me. I would become a part of a whole group of airplanes in motion, which itself is actually a wireless network connecting cities.

So I decided to document my participation in the largest wireless network in the sky (surely by weight anyway!) by constructing a garment that could record my experience. I made a paper flight vest that I folded carefully and brought onto the plane and wore throughout the flight. I think the idea of recording experience in clothing is something people really do all the time. We have examples in everything from lucky socks to wedding dresses to gift garments unsuitable for wear but always cherished and kept anyway. Here's my flying experience:

BEFORE flying




AFTER flying




I flew with Justin Hardison who did a field recording of our flight, available here.

Away

I'm about to get on a plane and do my performance piece for Conflux's 21 Cities at Once Performed. I'll post all about it you can be sure. Then I'll be away all week, so posting will be sporadic at best.

digital fringe

I also have a video up on Digital Fringe, which is part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Right now you can see all the multimedia work on the website, but they'll play on screens all over Melbourne from Wednesday 26 September to Sunday 14 October. The Fringe says:

This curated playlist is a product of the extensive callout to over 50,000 emails on all the major arts lists. In this callout we ask people to ferret around their hard drives and dusty camcorders and submit works that will be shown all over Melbourne and beyond. The nature of a web based call out means that there is material coming in from all around the world; from professional artists to thosw who have just completed their year 10-multimedia project and everybody in between.

My piece is on old-timey story about a man looking for something to wear and you can see it here

Conflux

This year I celebrated Labor Day by laboring over my work. Which was difficult because of the unbelievably perfect weather, but was very necessary and actually felt really good. One of the ideas I've been working on is for the 21 Cities Performed project by Nat Slaughter & Hope Hilton for the Conflux Festival in two weeks.

The 21 Cities at Once Performed project is "a performative, global network where invited participants create public intersections to occur simultaneously around the world." I love Slaughter & Hilton's interest in "wireless network systems existing not only through the use of computers and the internet, but through a human awareness of simultaneous participation and collective consciousness." Some of my very first projects with clothing stemmed from an interest in connecting to other people. I often hope my work is a two part process. Part one being my creation of a piece, and part two being someone else's use of it. I really enjoy the idea of thinking of this connection as a wireless network.

The other great thing about the 21 Cities performance is that anyone can join in and particitpate. if you go to the website you'll see you can still enter your own idea and perform on September 14 at 6 PM EST. I'm going to be doing a piece with Justin Hardison in an airplane over New York.

Swap Meat

I participated in Coudal's Swap Meat this summer (you can too until 8/31!). I sent the above out in May (top, color-changing hanky from this project and bottom, 2001 book which I don't have online anymore....jeez neither of these scans do my work any justice) and today I received these in return:



Both pieces are thrift store finds from Kim G. at Pulp-It. The first piece is several layers of board cut out in progressively smaller shapes. The second is a hand tooled photo album/scrapbook. She wrote a lovely little story about the scrapbook:

I like to imagine that Sam tooled this piece for the photos of his & Rosa's wedding and then she dumped him before the ceremony.

When I first got the package all I could think about was I wonder who got my pieces! But now I suspect that there is a Kim I. out there with my book and a fading handkerchief. I will def. be googling around to see if I can find it....

Coroflot

A perfect ending to my thesis posts, I think, a link to a new profile of my work in Coroflot Magazine. You'll have to click the download button on the lower right of this page to access Issue Two, I'm afraid. Coroflot is a great job search site that has grown from a tiny ID group to expand across all design areas in the last few years. The magazine is supposed to be bi-monthly but this is only the second issue....I hope it takes off, it's a lovely idea. And the art director Andrea Paustenbaugh seems capable of great work.

Two other artists I loved in this issue with me are Mihoko Ouchi and Wouter Widdershoven, both industrial designers, Ouchi in NYC and Widdershoven in Eindhoven, NL.


Ouchi's Knit Lamp


Widdershoven's Daniël table

Actually, I do have a few thoughts about posting my thesis. I'll post those tomorrow and then I will move on to others' work!

an aside....

before I finish up my thesis posting, I just want to point you to my guest post over at the shopping blog Rare Bird Finds. My post is all items from some of my favorite web stores (I could have done way more that 5!)....back to deep thoughts tomorrow!

a dear project

Sillkscreened covers, folded brochures, Pencil illustration

Check out The Land Of, a new(ish) record label that is putting out some interesting work. I know I'm biased, not only because I'm doing all the design work either. It is really lovely stuff.

This CD by My Fun (the second from The Land Of) is all inspired by "talking postcards" from turn-of-the-century Europe, called Sonorines in France. I wish I could do the music justice by describing it, but the best i can offer is this line from the about page:

The Land Of is interested in artists that are exploring the subtle detail and beauty in everyday sounds

This was such a fun project for me. I always love working in a variety of media, and working with Justin always inspires me to want to work with sound (see my enjoyment in this post) I'm very excited to be designing their next release this fall as well!