New Apartment! Still in Brooklyn but moved down to South Slope. So much more space and my own bathroom and private balcony! More photos over at my flickr

Read this on the train today...

"After-images occur when the eyes had a concentrated burst of a single colour for a period of time. It triggers the optic nerve to create a brief flash of its complementary opposite, so fleeting it hardly ever registers. Ever wondered why surgical scrubs and operating theatre textiles are blue-green? It's the complementary color of blood red and, because the optic nerve recognizes the complementary colour when they look up, it prevents the surgeons getting an after-image when they look away from the open wound."

from "Chromatic Scale" in the newest issue of Selvedge

Color is crazy!

Raw Color

Raw color is visual research project about vegetables and their colors. Vegetables are purified to their raw color and then categorized on cards, the most intense colors are then made into ink cartridges to make prints. In this series (C) = Red Cabbage, (M) = Beetroot and (Y)= Pumpkin.

Raw Color via WGSN

DwellStudio

I am really excited to attend AT Offline New York Design Meetup tomorrow. This months speaker is Christiane Lemieux in of DwellStudio I am a big fan of DwellStudio's modern graphic aesthetic. I had popped into their sample sale that was happening Memorial Day weekend in Soho but sadly came out empty handed which was ok by me because I actually already own a Duvet of theirs that I bought two years ago when I moved into my apartment and I still love to pieces. I am really looking forward to hear Christiane speak candidly about how they got their start and how they have grown their business especially since I remember when it was much smaller and they didn't have all of the partnerships that they do now. If you are in the area you should come on out! Everytime I go I always bump into two (or three or four...) people that I know. I guess that the design world is pretty small after all!

A couple of months ago I got an email from Brittany asking me about the DIS Textile Design Program that I did two summers ago. I've been following her blog ever since and it looks like she finally arrived in Copenhagen and I am excited to relive Copenhagen and DIS all over again vicariously through her blog!

Speaking of blogs I stumbled upon this one this morning while through flickr. All of the photos are super organized by type of design and then time period and I spent a ridiculous amount of time browsing through a good chunk of them this morning. Check it out over here

Here are a few of my favorites


Madame Raisin 1925


Christopher Dresser 1876


I absolutely love this color palette


More Sonia Delaunay


Ok so I really like Sonia Delaunay


Last Sonia Delaunay I swear

Busy, busy, busy

Lists of things to do/accomplish/check off/see/finish in the next week-ish

-Work field trip tomorrow! Seeing with all of the Clinique creative packaging team with perhaps lunch afterwards...
- Hopefully make a quick stop at the Pratt show after work tomorrow
- AT Offline: John Christakos from Blu Dot at Blu Dot Showroom on Thursday
- finally cracked open my sketchbook from London tonight, finish scanning in drawings that have the potential to turn into patterns
- scan and start to live trace/play with 1920s wallpaper samples that I bought at Portobello Market in London
- figure out/rsvp/plan which parties and exhibits I want to check out for design week
- go to above parties during design week, bring lots of business cards
- trade shows trades shows trade shows! ICFF (of course), Surtex, National Stationary Show and Luxe Pack
- meeting with some Design Dames + Babes to discuss future volunteer opportunities
- BBQ in Prospect Park?
- a very belated Cinco de Mayo celebration with the girls at our monthly baking night
- start writing written part of competition that I want to enter, deadlines are looming!
- go to work plus all the other everyday things!

London

I got back from London almost 2 weeks ago but I have been unusually extremely busy and just found the time a few days ago to put my photos on my computer. I really didn't take many photos and focused more on working on my sketchbook. Once I get my scanner back and working I'll share some pages from that. But in the meantime here are some photos of my trip. Check out the rest on my flickr
Swedish Fashion: Exploring a New Identity at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London


Columbia Flower Market


Portabello Road Market


Roman Baths in Bath


Shopping in Bath (can't remember the name of this store at the moment) Love the wire chandelier


Markets markets markets! This was taken at the Slow Food Market in London


Bath was seriously GORGEOUS and a highlight of my trip, I was probably swayed by the amazing weather that I had there too.


Explored lots of little shops and gathered up lots of inspiration