max lamb talk tonight at 6pm/ workshop residency, sf

Spent a lovely morning coffeeing and catching up with my friend, designer Max Lamb who is visiting from London for a short stint. He is talking tonight at Worshop Residency in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.
833 22nd St. x Tennessee. Starts at 6pm. See you there!

mohawk maker quarterly/issue 1

While I was working on the Modern Originals,  Mohawk Paper Company asked me some questions about my work for their first issue of Mohawk Maker Quarterly. It is funny, I was a bit cuckoo with deadlines at that point so the second I answered their questions and sent them a few photos, I completely forgot about it. And then about a month ago I received this beautiful color newspaper. Wow!! I am in the comapny of some wonderful people whom I admire - Massimo Vignelli, Stephen Shore, etc - and I am in the section called "Champions of Craft" which I am completely humbled and honored by. Thank you so much for the acknowledgement Mohawk!  You can read about it here

modern originals/progress report

Hi everyone! Life has been rather busy this summer working on my new book, Modern Originals, and the blog has been rather neglected as a result. I honestly forgot how intense and time consuming making a book can be. But I am happy to say that after an intense past month (or 2?) of working on the images and making match prints, I sent out the lot of it to Rizzoli last week. This first image was my kitchen table when I was going through every single print (231 of them!) and making one last check. There are still a few things to do and then comes the waiting game for proofs from the printers, but my hard part is pretty much complete. YAY!!!!!
I hope all of you enjoy this last gasp of summer this Labor Day.  I know I am. xx

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torino, italy/

I've been away awhile. Hope you all have been enjoying the summer.
Today a quick post from an incredible apartment in Torino, Italy. I ran across it the other day while looking through images of Carlo Mollino's apartment for my new book, Modern Originals.
I'll post more. I swear. ; )