Gathering Inspiration

Dollar Bill Origami

From this....

You can make these...

 

And from his newest works...(using foreign currency)

Scored and folded by the incredibly talented Won Park. Crazy good!

 

When you "StumbleUpon!" on something so perfect!

Sometimes I like to hit my StumbleUpon! button in Firefox to see what the WWW can offer for the inspiring minds out there....

This was today's.

Hope it starts your Friday into the weekend with as much reference to Mother Nature and to those special in your life as it did for me!

Holiday Trimmings

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, L A—la—LA—la—LA....

Jayson Home & Garden's newest holiday decor:

Brass Pine Wreath. Beautiful enough to keep up all year long? I think so!

Autumnal check point with new works by Folia Design

Yes, I admit it.

I'm lucky, to be doing something that I truly love — design! 

I feel even luckier when the service I provide resonates with my clients in a way where they feel like they've just won the lottery! To me, that is worth more than gold!

To that, here's some of the projects that have kept me: back hunched, nose tilted down, and from what I can tell, made some very happy people that I get to call clients. I do plan on doing a serious studio session of photographing everything soon, but in the meantime, ta da . . .

B R A N D I N G    W O R K S.
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Office of Innovations at St. Helena Hospital (a new department focusing on wellness and lifestyle programs currently being developed at the St. Helena Center for Health)

(Final Logo)

 

(other concepts presented)

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Napa County Public Health campaign logo for awareness in dealing with the H1N1 epidemic

(Final Logo)

(other concepts presented)

 

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Land Trust Napa County
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(other concepts presented)

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The very very talented Megan Reeves Photography
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(other concepts presented)

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Philippe Melka's Atelier Melka: Napa's premiere winemaker and the consulting arm of his business
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(other concepts presented)

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Commercial Real Estate company based in Hawaii: Peake/Levoy
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(other concepts presented)
 

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California Veterans Support Foundation
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A new non profit that was established to raise funds that support the development of programs and services for California veterans.

(other concepts presented)

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VinFillment: New company that offers state of the art, temperature controlled wine storage, order pick & pack, inventory control and shipping services for consumer-direct wine orders for wineries.

(Final Logo)

 

(other concepts presented)

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Coiled

New label, or more accurately described, new design-silk-screened-onto-the-bottle for Syrah that was grown in Idaho's Snake River Valley in which the winemaker is based in Napa.

 

Grizzly Bear - The Knife

J'Adore.

In a street of Paris, France. The guys from Grizzly Bear didn't have any instruments with them, so they just improvised an a capella version of their new song, The Knife.

(via the family post)

The Anthropologist

Of course, one of my favorite retailers has come up with an inspirational online space called the anthropologist for inspiring works and individuals. I find it curious how my own personal intrigue for the past, whether it be in old tools, worn leather-bound journals, calcified bones or butterfly wings suspended forever in beauty mirrors this space. (Maybe that minor during undergrad in anthropology had more to do with my calling than I realized.)

I still credit Anna Grauer for being one of the most fascinating and stimulating faculty persons that made my first year of college so profound. It was a Wednesday night class with mostly upperclassman, and I loved that sense of discovery in the wonder of human evolution, the fascination of examining the skulls of Homo habilis, Australopithecus afarensis to Homo erectus. While in class, she lectured how she was in charge of analyzing skeletons from an old burial site in Chicago that was being dug up for commercial property development. It was right in the neighborhood I grew up in. I went there the summer before college to walk around, hearing rumors about bones and stuff. As you might guess, I was completely halted in that moment that my little universe would be connected to Anne. I remember finding two teeth, putting them in my pocket and taking them home to my secret little holding box for mementos and oddities. How beautifully random life can be, to thread an experience like finding haunting memories of the past to my enthusiasm for a college course, and even more so because of the person teaching it. Well...I felt like a budding anthropologist.

There's much to *discover* and interact with. I've been so nose-to-the-grind stone lately that I really hadn't seen the release of Jane Campion's Bright Star. Be still my heart. Some friends were recently talking about it, and I just had no idea. I may miss it in the go-arounds at the theater, but will definitely put it on the NetFlix cue for sure. This little video segment of her talking with young child actors is so touching. She says "Filmmaking is about being...about telling the truth". Acting is about courage." ....wise words...reflective of life in general, I think?

Director of Photography for the film, Greig Fraser presents some images that made me pause and hunch ever-so-close-to-the-screen.
beautiful. sentimental. haunting. delicate.

I guess I should admit it: Anthropologie is brilliant to unearth and present such artistry in the realm of historical reverence within avant garde contexts. More to love the creatives behind this company.