¡FELICIDADES!

I hope everyone is enjoying their holidays! I'll be posting new blogs soon...in the meantime I'm going back to the beach.

MERRY HOFFMAS!

I love how he's holding the candle! Is he creepy? Or mysterious? Or dreamy? See it again here.

2009 CALENDAR...DONE

So I finished my design for the 2009 calendar. I decided to make it in Spanish this year, since the majority of the recipients speak primarily that language. I used all these shapes that I drew throughout the year (it's what I usually do while on the subway).

Here are some pictures I took while in Hudson Valley, NY. We had a terrific breakfast at Cold Springs Cafe, fantastic pierogies in Beacon, took in the views in Garrison, and visited DIA Beacon. I'm always a sucker for the trees planted in front of the DIA, I can't help but photograph them (see image at bottom).

SOMEWHERE IN BEACON

There’s a wonderful place in Beacon, NY that a lot of people don’t know about. That’s a real shame because it’s so unique, it should be on everyone’s list of places to visit when heading over to the DIA Beacon Museum. It’s called Hermitage and it sells old poetry books, primarily from the 50’s and 60’s. But it’s also an art space and a small press (see the image at the bottom). The space is carefully curated, so every item makes sense. The first time I stepped in they were playing a John Fahey album that, with the small-cabin-feel, made me fall in love with this place. If you’re ever in the area definitely stop by.
PS- Expect more postings about the Hudson area (very) soon!

MARTINO GAMPER

This I thought was at least thought-provoking, I found it while looking through Apartment Therapy. Martino Gamper's designs are combinations of famous chairs that have been dissected to become a new chair of sorts. Some are quite funny. Take a closer look at his work here.

I saw the movie "Married Life" this week and the only thing I liked about it were the opening credits. I think they were done by Unjoo Lee Byars, but I'm not completely sure. They took vintage textile designs and animated them, making it all look like a moving collage. The patterns interacted with the figures (which looked like old magazine ad cut-outs), while Doris Day sang "I Can't Give You Anything But Love". I did some research on vintage wallpaper/textile patterns for a project I did some years ago, and I know some of these patterns (at least most of them) where taken from one particular book called "Wallpaper Designs". The book (cover image is at the bottom) includes a CD ROM with hi-res images that you can download. Like I said, it's not a great movie, but the titles were kind of cool.