I’m lamenting summer’s passing. I have to go back to work, get up at 5am. I’m dreading the dark morning. I’ll get used to it.
Really, I’ve had a splendid summer. I’ve done a ton of artwork, traveled to the Berkshires & California, & had marvelous bike rides in the park/cloud watching sessions/romantic dinners at home with my husband.
Here’s a fun article on NOT owning a summer house from Slate
Here’s a search on flickr for “summer house”. I picked some of my favorite pictures to show you.
While in San Francisco I had the pleasure of meeting Sandy co-creator of Treatzone.
“Treatzone exists to showcase a small sampling of the many gems in life, some of which are obvious, some of which you may have overlooked, and the best of which we still have yet to find. Always knowing that the joy of life’s discoveries are in direct relation to the complexity of the search.”
TREATZONE ALSO HAS A SHOP! That carries: prints, stationery, and more. Treatzone creators are inspired by vintage materials and imagery, and endeavor to use re-purposed or recycled materials as much as possible (I love that they do that).
I’m so happy to have met Sandy and look forward to meeting Matthew someday. In the meantime I have lots of shopping to do in their etsy shop and reading to do on their blog. You do too.
Start by trying the Davis-Glazier Dizictionary they have on their site! You can inpuzzet some writing like “Samantha loves blogging on Maquette. She enjoyed her trip to San Francisco and meeting Sandy.” And the outpizzet is, “Samantha lovizzes blogg’n on Maquette, yeah! tha damzle’s enjizzoyed tha damzle’s trizzip San Francisco ‘n meetizz’n Sandy.”
They must have hired Snoop to translate! Try it.
I’ve been back from California for a week but have not had time to properly talk about the trip or the art stuff I’ve been up to. I’m excited to say that I have work in two fabulous magazines this month, Craft and Glamour. I know I posted about Glamour when it first came out but now I have pictures of the actual magazine pages. Though I suggest getting your own copy. Craft has lots of great projects I’m dying to do and Glamour is chock full of fall fashion and inspiration. Plus, it has Penelope Cruz on the cover. I think she’s incredible. I highly recommend Woody Allen’s new film: Vicky Christina Barcelona with Penelope as a crazed lover.
Here are some close-ups, the Craft illo was done in micron pen and concentrated inks:
The Glamour illos were done in pen with digital color:
This week, I’ll post about some wonderful Cali things. Here’s a sneak preview: I met Erin of Design for Mankind, Mary Jo Matsumoto of Trust Your Style, Sabrina of Hello Lucky, Natalie (of Coquette) and Daniel at Craft, some fabulous folks at Chronicle, Kelly of Little Paper Planes, and Christiana at Ferm Living.
I’ll also be posting about some DIY home improvements I’ve been doing in our apt (they’re long over-due). And a mini-journal making how-to for you from me!
So tune in for more tomorrow. Thanks for reading Maquette!! Oh and, I would also love to hear what you do and why you are interested in art, design, fashion, or anything else you read about here. So feel free to drop me a line to tell me. I appreciate your readership so much and want to know who you are.
I’m still planning on a good and long post for Monday with news and updates on my California trip, recent work, and just good stuff. Today I’m still catching up on freelance stuff before teaching resumes in Sept. eeeek…so soon.
I could not help but think about the crisp air of autumn when I read this Makool loves you post on Sylvia Sanchez’s beautiful clothing/ objects. It reminded me of a drawing I did a little while ago. I had to juxtapose them for you in this post.
Here’s what Sylvia is doing:
“Striving for a subtle balance between authentic and contemporary, with an obsession for noble materials and fascinated with handcraft techniques, Sylvia Sanchez, Franco-Colombian & chief designer of WARMI, conceive this articles as objects rather than as clothes”.
Read more here.
I love German photographer Maditi’s work. I first saw it in Lines & Shapes (Vol. 2).
Her blog is set up so you can do an aggregate search all of “her photos” posts, so I did it for you.
Here’s her beautiful website + Flickr stream as well.
Have a colorful and calm day. I’m back from California. I’ll post about the trip soon. Just need to catch up on work. I can’t believe how wonderful my guest posters were. If you have not checked in for the last few days you should scroll back and read the fabulous posts.
