My buddy Keith from the HOW Design Forum makes hand screened prints for a good cause over at The Ink Initiative had a sale in early July on his limited edition, hand screened prints. The best part? The money from the sale of the prints goes to help out a great cause: “The concept is … Read more Cool Ink Initiative Prints Help Raise Money for Good Cause!
Recently at the Visual Ambassdor they had a post entitled The Death of Print. Take a second to read the article (it’s short, I’ll wait….) Back? Oh good. I just can’t see how the death of print a) equals a devaluation of art nor b) equals the death of “real journalism” as the author states. … Read more Reply to the "Death" of Print
The first Doodle Swap between members of the HOW Design Forum (aka HOWies) was so much fun that I couldn’t pass on doing round 2! The trick was working about a few other projects that were all due at that same time. Fortunately, one project gave me the inspiration for my doodles for round 2 … Read more Doodle Swap #2
I’m pleased that I was able to participate in the Creative Postcard Club’s 50th round. Congrats to Travis on a fantastic milestone! For this round, I knew I wanted the theme of my stamp to be Art Deco. But the genre encompasses such a large variety of work, I wasn’t sure what to narrow it … Read more Creative Postcard Club—R50 Stamps
Last week was the fifth annual Dorothy Lane Market Pastry Show. This marks the second year that we’ve done a “book” for the show that features write-ups about the fine pastries, hors d’oeuvres, and beer and wine offered at the event. The book acts as an admission badge and event souvenir. For this year’s theme, … Read more DLM Pastry Show Book 2009
A friend of mine from the HOW Design Forum, Mary, came up with a brilliant idea to do a “doodle swap” on Artist Trading Cards. She described it as: “The Doodle Swap Project is an organized swap of original, trading-card-sized art between artists, designers and illustrators.” It sounded like fun so I signed up. I … Read more Doodle Swap
This was a tough assignment for me. While I did actually vote for this theme, in general numbers make my eyes glaze over. So to find a meaningful number/numeral for me would prove to be the most challenging part of this assignment. So I thought about numbers and did a littel research and then I … Read more Creative Postcard Club—R49 Numerals
….Devon is the winner of my Lucky 13 giveaway. Congrats! And thanks to everyone who played the game!
All entries are due at Midnight EST today, Friday, March 13! http://nsquaredesign.blogspot.com/2009/03/lucky-13-giveaway.html
Since I don’t believe Friday the 13 is unlucky, I’m going to try to break the “spell” of the so-called unlucky Friday the 13th and make it a Lucky 13 day for one lucky person! One week from today, on Friday March 13, I’m going to give away one hand-signed print of my “February Moon” … Read more Lucky 13 Giveaway!
Thanks to my friend Rachel at Graceworks Bethany Retirement Village, I was able to secure my first-ever art exhibit in their beautiful new Village Center Art Gallery. The theme is “Expressions of Love” and most of my pieces are wedding gifts that I’ve given my friends over the years, with a couple of other pieces, … Read more My First-Ever Art Exhibition
Hello all, thanks to everyone who’s keeping up on this blog. Alas, February is going to be a busy month with my day job, freelance work, my first-ever art exhibit at a local retirement community, and time with friends and family, so posts will be spotty at best. I have become a twit, so if … Read more Programming Note
As a creative, I make prints of my 2-d illustrations and have my designs printed, which is great. Ponoko takes it to the next level and allows you to turn your creativity loose on making real objects! Whether it’s a one-off prototype or special gift, this is just really cool! I don’t know what I’m going … Read more Ponoko: Make Your Own Products!
I honestly can’t remember how I found this page of Olympic Stamps for the 2010 games. I was going through my morning ritual of reading my RSS feeds. I typically open like 20 windows in my browser. I had forgotten how I got here, but finding these beautiful stamps was a delight to my eyes. … Read more Sweet Stamps!
Here are a few great design inspiration links: Archive of Postage Stamps by Type Designers Great Book Covers from 2008 Smithsonian’s Flickr Page Lee Sutton’s Flickr Page Time Life Photo Archive (hosted by Google) Enjoy!
So I’ve been planning this year’s holiday card since last year. I had a few too many sketches from last year that I felt were cool enough, so I made life easy for myself this year and started from these sketches from last year: I decided to “zoom in” on the what I call the … Read more My Holiday Card – O Christmas Tree
My dear friend Amanda got married this past weekend near Temecula, CA. As is my tradition, I illustrated a custom poem as her wedding gift. The first step is writing an appropriate poem. I went through several versions until I finally got it right. Next, I started sketching out thumbnails for the illustration. I had … Read more Princess Luna
Seems like any creative website these days is loaded with “act now to stop the Orphan Works bill” and “you’re going to lose all rights to your work”, etc. I’m sure if you are a designer, illustrator, photographer, or other creative, you’ve been doing your homework on this potentially devastating legislation. For those who’ve been … Read more Orphan Works = Bad News for Creative Innovation