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A Valentine for the Sailors at Heart 15 Feb 2012 | 03:59 am
For the last ten years or so I’ve been making valentine cards for my friends. This year I was inspired by all the sailboats I’ve seen in Maine. Large and small, they are captivating to watch – always ...
Free For All Show at Space Gallery 30 Jan 2012 | 09:42 am
Free For All is an annual open-submission show celebrating Portland’s community-wide creativity and embracing the spirit of collective chaos. Another great show at Space Gallery. A large cyonotype p...
Forever Paris 29 Jan 2012 | 12:51 pm
I just got my advanced copy of Forever Paris in the mail this week. It’s great to see how the maps came out and all the historical photos. The colors came out great. It’s a fun giftable book. If I ev...
Mike Perry at Space Gallery 12 Aug 2011 | 04:30 am
Mike Perry‘s silk-screened poster show opened in Portland, ME last night at Space Gallery. The show is touring in conjunction with the release of his third book, titled Pulled — a catalog of posters b...
A tiny gift from Carol Pesce 8 Apr 2011 | 02:58 am
Illustrator Carol Pesce sent me this little surprise in the mail. It’s a little thank you note encased by the most charming example matchbook art I’ve even seen. This boxy, colorful, little bird went...
The Cloud Collector’s Handbook 31 Mar 2011 | 02:47 am
Great news for this little book featuring colossal clouds. The Cloud Collector’s Book, whose American edition I designed for Chronicle Books was recently featured in The New York Times Science Section...
Feel Better Little Buddy 28 Mar 2011 | 11:11 am
The design of this charming little paper back, Feel Better Little Buddy, was inspired by homemade get-well cards. It features home photos of injured pets, on their way to recovery, from the site Anim...
Site Update 9 Mar 2011 | 06:12 pm
I updated the design of lagasa.com last week. It had been a while, so it was time shred some old projects and highlight the new. The funnest part of this process was shooting a landing page image. Th...
D.I.Y. Delicious By Vanessa Barrington 28 Sep 2010 | 04:30 pm
D.I.Y. Delicious was a lovely book to design. I wrote a little bit about it and the design experience (i.e. rejected covers on view) on Chronicle’s blog. The chapter openers incorporate scans of the ...
I Dare You by Susie Bright 26 Jan 2010 | 08:53 pm
I Dare You contains 30 sealed sexual prompts and dares. The idea is that you’d select an envelope at random, tear it open, and read the card aloud to your partner. Then see what happens… It comes wit...
