Gwen Frostic loved nature. She loved all nature―animals, birds, plants, snow, stars―but she seemed to have a special fondness for trees. In her book, These Things are Ours,…
Fabrics, wallpapers, gift products and decorative papers are great sources of surface design inspiration. Examining the patterns, illustrations, and other artwork on these surfaces reveals a profusion of…
Once you start noticing them, patterns appear everywhere. Patterns can take many forms from abstract ideas to observable behaviors to rhythm and rhyme. But the focus of today’s…
Tap, tap, taptap, tap! The flower hammering continues. This week hundreds of clover leaves, hydrangea florets and maple leaves felt the hammer’s blow.
Some things just go together―like peanut butter and jelly, pen and paper, cup and saucer, brick and mortar, or flowers and hammer. OK that last one, “flowers and…