(Fifi, one of the American Visionary Art Museum’s Kinetic Sculptures and a true Baltimore icon, all lit up for the Preakness Parade of Lights.) It has been a pleasure to be with everyone this week. I have a whole new deeper and more profound respect for Grace and all the other editors who work this…
Kyle VanHorn, letterpress printer extraordinaire, wonderful neighbor and good friend. I love walking in to Kyle’s apartment, seeing stacks of whatever his most recent project is neatly placed around the room, sitting down at his kitchen table, immediately being offered a cup of tea or beer (depending on the time of day) and brainstorming about…
Bruce and Nolen began thinking about Post Typography, (a design studio and graphic design/illustration/conceptual lettering/musical collaboration) as undergraduates and few years later quit their desk jobs to work together full time—graphic designers by day, post-punk rock musicians by night or vice versa. Bruce and Nolen enjoy blurring lines and turning heads, but always in a…
When I met Mary Mashburn of Typecast Press it felt immediately like reuniting with an old friend. After we began talking and kept getting off topic and knowing all of these people and places in common, besides sharing a healthy love and respect for letterpress and a small obsession for good paper—we just kept saying…
(Jean Reece Wilkey, Julie Nelson) When I was first brainstorming about what I wanted to feature during my week of guest blogging, I sent out an e-mail to some of my favorite artists and designer friends. The first person I heard back from is my uber-talented and sweet cousin, Josh Keller. He is just finishing…
I am so pleased to welcome Rachel Bone to the Design*Sponge Guest Blog! I first met Rachel three years ago when I bought a t-shirt from her at a neighborhood festival in Baltimore. Originally a small-town New Englander Rachel is slowly being converted to city life and has found the visual stimulation, inspiration and artists…
Sarah Templin is not only my good friend and my co-worker at the American Visionary Art Museum (she has been the Registrar for the past eight years, taking good care of all the artwork!) but also a fashion/textile designer, screen-printer and inspring artist. I love having Sarah around because she is always pointing out beauty…
I first met Nancy while sitting on the back porch of a good mutual friend sipping wine and reminiscing about the Pacific Northwest (where we both have roots). Nancy is truly a modern Renaissance woman. She is a photographer, designer, ceramicist, print-maker, curator, gallery director, professor, and well, I could go on and on. Her…
(The New Urban Arts studio, located in Providence, Rhode Island.) During my first semester of grad school at RISD in the Art + Design Education Department (with a focus on Community Arts) I was enrolled in a class called Digital Diary. Each week we met at New Urban Arts and taught/mentored/played with a group of…
(Student drawing with charcoal and studying masks at a Community Art Program in Providence, RI.) As I began brainstorming what I wanted to feature during my week as guest blogger on Design*Sponge, I went through a litany of ideas, in the end settling on what I know (isn’t that the timeless advice?): Community Art and…
