I was doing some research shopping last week and picked up a poster for Tate at Maido, a Japanese stationery store in the SF Centre. I wanted to share the find but have had a difficult time locating prints by the artist, Norio Kaneko, online. I managed to find a few prints for sale on a French website, which also has amazing prints by other artists (including Ruka Ruka and Blanca Gomez, who both hang on Tate’s walls already).

Check out all the posters at Mes Habits Chéris here. So cute!

Hiya folks! I wanted to briefly share a little side project that I’ve started on the sly. It started with drawing a tractor for Tate’s room, and evolved into a series of vehicles. I thought I might give selling on Etsy a whirl, and am excited to have a creative side project to work on. My work is creative and my home is creative, how lucky am I?

I have a lot of ideas simmering, but I wanted to test the waters. I am hoping that I can get a modest little business going, but we’ll see how it works out.

I will share more as the project progresses, but for now you can see the few items I’ve put up in my shop.

PS – What are you thinking about the new iPhone? Normally I wouldn’t give it a thought, but it has a virtual assistant! I NEED THAT.

City living print, Laura Amiss.

I discovered Laura this year via her Etsy shop and have partnered with her on projects at work, where she has become a fast favorite. I thought I might share her work because I absolutely adore her style and she’s a lovely person. Laura is an illustrator based out of Amsterdam; she creates amazing figurative and architectural illustrations and also works with textiles. I encourage you to take a peek at her website and explore her Etsy shop.

xo

Coverjunkie archives thousands of magazine covers from around the globe. The most recent are posted on the front page, but you can also look at classic covers, controversial covers….even Kate Moss covers. I could spend hours exploring.

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You can find it here.

Bardot Lamps, $98-$138; Reed Bottles, $9-$48; Cube Clock, $59

“Animal Alphabet” and “Anatomy of Love” 11 x 14 signed prints by Anna Bond, $40 at Rifle Paper Company.

Such is the case with Sasha Barr, a Seattle-based illustrator I was introduced to via one of my favorite blogs. He does a lot of illustration work for bands, and offers quite a few prints for sale on his website. I bought the Peace Please print (down below) for the HP’s room but I am also loving the Imagination print, shown directly below.

Barr also collaborates with Meagan Claire Hall, creating prints, pillows and eco-friendly produce bags under the name Wonder-Thunder. A few years ago my previous hairdresser had a piece of art in his salon for sale that I loved. It was an over-sized (probably around 5 x 12 feet) canvas of a corn dog brandishing a pistol. It was bright, in a pop art style, and a deal (I thought) at $250. Todd called to buy it for me for my birthday after recalling how much I liked it, but it had sold. The bookish cob of corn below would be a welcome replacement for my long-lost corn dog piece. Paired with his watermelon cowboy friend, they’d make a cute team, no? These 6 x 12″ screen prints are 10 bucks a pop at W-T. The duo (Barr and Hall, not the corn and watermelon) also have a blog and Etsy shop.

Part of me would like to start doing this again, not only because it’s fun and a creative challenge, but because in just a few years I have turned into the lamest camera subject on earth. Any posted photograph makes me stiffen and I always managed to look…awkward. I would love to to retrain myself a bit to make my time in front of the lens less stressful.

Do you have any tips for looking your best in photos?

I was at work late last night (I hate 12 hour days) and found myself craving a good doodle on the train ride home. I scrounged up a piece of scratch paper (I always carry pens) and while balancing my cup of wine, went at it.

People tend to have a doodling MO. Mine is sketching clothes, peppered with lyrics from songs I am listening to (last night it was a Miss Kittin Muzik mix), little tornadoes and fan-looking things.

What’s yours?