Creativity is something I think about a lot. I used to despise the word and avoided using it altogether because it seemed so pretentious. Mothers and friends hide their scrapbooks and journals using the word against themselves—“It’s not that good. I’m not creative like you.” People seem more willing to accept mistakes in life from…
130,000 pieces. Nothing but Legos. 600 man hours. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Victorian on Mud Heap: This isn’t Mike Doyle’s first time around the brick. The Victorian is the third installment in his series of abandoned houses. “Some ask if Lego brick building is Art. To me, that is like asking is sculpting with…
More pages from my sketchbook. Some pages are filled with nothing but notes, while others are crammed full of drawings. Nothing in my sketchbook is considered “finished”—it’s all working towards something, working out the ideas, techniques, methods, and content for whatever it is I’m doing. My sketchbook is my notebook, journal, To Do list, calendar…
6 years in the making. 672 pages. Arabic calligraphy. Islamic mythology. Hardbound. Foil-stamped. Out today. “I never know the endings of the books when I’m working on them. I spent a year on the first rough draft and couldn’t figure out the ending. Then I spent another year on the second rough draft, and still…
You can no longer talk about children’s book art in Utah without hearing Willy Terry’s name pop up. This is a good thing. A very good thing. See what I mean? This is a typical painting from Will—and by ‘typical’ I mean teeming with rich, luscious colors, playful contrast between light and dark tones, endearing…
Jessica Hische is the designer and illustrator behind The Daily Drop Cap, where she has created a beautiful illustrative initial cap daily since September of 2009. That’s two years already and she still isn’t finished with the project! Jessica is also a champion for freelance designers and illustrators all over the world (thank you!) and she…
Such an incredible interview with Native American poet and writer Sherman Alexie. I caught part of this program on NPR last Saturday and I was so glad to find the full hour-long program online. Amongst such topics as what life is like for him as a writer and the use of language in poetry, I…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/26038742] Stefan Sagmeister has been one of my favorite designers/artists/creators for quite some time. If you don’t know his name, you might be familiar with some of his work: Stefan has an unorthodox way of working, where, instead of retiring once he’s older and has lost a good deal of his health and vigor,…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXbBA1DRE84&feature=player_embedded#!] Technology has been hinting at something like this for a while, but I didn’t realize the real deal would be here so soon. “The Inkling is a “digital sketch pen” that allows you to draw or sketch on any standard piece of paper (a big advantage over Livescribe, which requires special notebooks) and automatically…