simpleshapes

Simple shapes lead to endless possibilities! We've been playing with this pegboard game from Playskool.

Which makes me think of these villages that I built while I was in Estonia number of years ago.

letraset portraits

On the first day of class, I have my students fill out index cards with pertinent course info, and on the reverse side they make typographic portraits using letraset——so that I can recall their names. I made these three, while they eased back in and acclimated themselves with type. Here are some great student examples from last year.

thaw???? naw!!

our first snow here was back in mid-october——it was a weighty surprise. and so much more to come. I still have to learn to celebrate the cold and white...

This sort of thing does help: St. Paul's Winter Carnival + Art Shanty Projects.
Lookie: romantic ice palace and this one!

1 week elapses

look at the teeth

a new semester begins!

my teaching schedule: intro to type, form and methods and foundation 2D.

and I'm taking a letterpress workshop here.

+ Estonian handknit sock debut
+ Sseriously! A light display in my neighborhood
+ the shrinking head tears up
+ my mom's lovely hands with my favorite fabric.


Go Latvia! scroll down for mitten galleries.

history of france. pt. 1

and some more from the Philibert's Bright Ideas by Henri Avelot—1932.

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I get really lost in this site

shrinking lady

my beau and hazel have been busy.

oh la la

a good pair of nails and a better pair of socks.
(from my good pal Hal!)

three good finds

u s e f u l and l o v e l y!

from Faulty Diction:
whack, what, which, etc
Pronounced hwac, hwat, hwich, etc.: not wac, wat, wich, etc.
The English are especially lax in the pronunciation of such words as these, almost uniformly dropping the initial h sound, while many Americans err by making the aspirate too sharply prominent.

Published by Funk & Wagnalls Company. 1909 – 1915.

I spotted and stalked this perfect club house in a fancy minneapolis neighborhood this fall. I could live here!
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This is the first house I ever lived in——it was tiny! And get a load of these homemade stickers—YIKES—I made hundreds when I was six! Now that I've shared some of my graphic prowess, it's time to get rid of them.

fitting in

nice!

gravity!

a new year

Wishing you all a happy happy happy 2010!

hasty tasty

This piece of correspondence makes me very curious!

++ Hope all of you had a merry christmas.

le petit chien

Another sweet find from the MCAD library. Flip the book over and you get the english version. By the same authors.

by Denise and Alain Trez. World Publishing Company. 1961.

mom+winter

That snowsuit is c r a z y, huh?!!
My mom is holiday c r a z y!!!! I am loving the mini scarves.

on ice

Just look at this! from a Holiday on Ice program. Those Continental Clowns, S'cool Days and Kanine Kulture were some of the other skating themes of 1961.

Our local pond appears to be frozen——we'll all be iceskating soon.