Telluride, Colorado

Happy New Years! I’ve just returned from exploring the beautiful little town of Telluride, Colorado. One of my favorite places was the old serene silver mine at the end of town. The brilliant snow served as a reflector underneath the aspen trees, who were posing glamorously for me that afternoon.

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Calligraphic Gift Wrap

While working on calligraphy for my greeting card designs, I decided to make my warm up time useful by writing out Christmas carol lyrics. Now that the holidays have arrived, I’m adorning all my gifts with handmade ribbon and tags. Merry Christmas!

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Award winning stock photography?

I’ve just found out that Stokefire won the 2013 Platinum MarCom Award for a poster I designed to promote our summer open house. If you missed the roof-top shindig, you missed a good time, but don’t worry we didn’t drink all the booze and we’ll be hosting more events in the future on our penthouse deck. When […]

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Chart junk, Sparklines & Edward Tufte

Is the infographic craze over yet? Can we move on now? We progressed from vague intrigue to rapidly hitting the “x” button to get the marketing gibberish shouting meaningless numbers off the screen as quickly as humanly possible. “Chart junk” is a term coined by Edward Tufte, the leading expert in data visualization and information […]

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Procrastination on a theme

I’ve started a pro-bono project for my dance company and have found myself with tons of beautiful images from the photo shoot. Combine this resource with the fact that I just watched an inspirational workshop about conceptual portraits and the perfect environment for experimental procrastination is created.

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