If I learned one thing at the HOW Conference in Austin…

…it’s this:
Lack of fear leads to creativity.
When I heard this, it made me realize just how fear-based my daily routine is. I wake up some, if not most, mornings fearing I’ll miss a deadline. I fear that I won’t find the solution for the design problem that’s next on my plate. I fear the client [...]

When I grow up, I want to be Paula Scher.

Before I even knew her name, I was a rabid fan. I can’t remember the exact moment when I made the connection between the images I marked in every PRINT Design Annual and the fact that Paula was responsible for most, but it changed my life. Knowing that this tough-talking, honest female created these amazing [...]

Inspirational Interviews

At the beginning of the year, I finally bought this book after picking it up EVERY TIME I went to the bookstore:

#1, you can’t help but touch it because it’s got this crazy mixed-textured cover (part mossy felt and part what appears to be plastic/varnished?). It’s absolutely gorgeous. The inside is full of samples and [...]