the blog

folk mexican art meets octopus

Adobe Illustrator Techniques 1 Comment

MAKING FOLK ART FROM ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR?

In the midst of a diversity campaign, I was shooting some art at a Mexican restaurant chalk full of chotchkies (that’s Spanish for “chotchkies”), aluminum stampings, painted ceramic sea animal sculptures and window-box. ‘Love this kind of art because you don’t have to figure out what it is. You just enjoy it. I’ve always liked folk art—unschooled, simple and naive. But that doesn’t take the technique, charm and artistry away. Click to Continue »

not so common courtesy

Art of Business 2 Comments

How sad that it’s become common practice to start emails without a proper salutation and to end it with a trailing history of forwards and spam text. (Clean up your forwarded email, man!) That, I can accept just for knowing that we are all in a hurry and it’s so easy to hit reply and shoot out some answer especially if it’s been an ongoing conversation. So now that we agree that email is easy, we can also label non-reply as quite rude, downright lazy, and extremely bad business. Click to Continue »