In a class I taught last fall, I posed the question, “What inspires you?” The following is what the students came up with. I’ve had it taped to my office wall ever since. In my opinion, inspiration is what life is all about. Lucky for us, it comes in many forms.
“If we get lost in dark despair, beauty takes us back to center.”-Piero Ferrucci Anyone need that right now? 🙂
I find oodles of inspiration and fresh ideas in the field of graphic design. These are examples of the work of Alan Fletcher, who is considered by many to be the father of modern graphic design, and one of Britain’s most prolific artists. I love his quirky mix, turning words into art, and art into…
A friend took this photo of a pomegranate on the tree in front of my house. It had been looking sad and neglected—for some reason it had never ripened, so I let it sit there while in the meantime, the rest of the fruit was picked and the tree lost all its leaves for the…
My new fave art book is Picturing and Poeting by noted graphic designer Alan Fletcher. British writer Fiona MacCarthy wrote something interesting in her forward to the book. She describes the “moment of crystallization when an idea changes state. The point at which the word transforms itself to make a picture. The stage at which…
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