Category Archives: breathing

Drawing

Drawing Babies Breath After a busy li’l May, we’re coming up for a breath of summer air. We’re launching 5 new wedding invitation designs next week that have been waiting their turn very patiently. Charlotte and I are off to Iowa later next week, and I’m looking forward to seeing a sunset and some wide

Clear winter nights

The tiniest detail of one project I’ve been developing these last few weeks January 4, 2012 There’s a trend going on around here: every year is somehow exponentially faster than the one before. If I had to guess, it has something to do with being in our 30s and having a toddler; we’ll have to

Thank You

Sometime in 2001, I think, my dad told me I should be making books. I’d made books as a hobby for years but he meant that it should be my life’s work. It took me a few years and a few office jobs to figure it out for myself. My decision to leave the world

Familiar territory

In the last few days, the air has changed. It is not so humid; it is easier to breathe. October is my favorite month. Yellow leaves are falling outside now and even here in Brooklyn, where the colors are beautiful but somewhat less than spectacular, the change of the seasons is palpable. Sunlight comes into

Predictable orbits

Despite the silence, there’s no lack of activity around the homestead - not to worry! We’re just lacking in hours in the day and energy enough to conquer it all. We’ve been up to plenty. A few custom projects - one a birthday celebration book filled with letters to the client’s mother; another an illustrator’s