Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String

Every year at the beginning of the summer I take all of my photos from the preceding year and put them into an album. I think that there is something really special about having the tactile sensation of photos in your hands, flipping through the pages and the years. But the albums themselves weren't looking too special- so I came up with a solution. When I picked up a new album at The Container Store, I also grabbed a roll of kraft paper and a roll of white grosgrain ribbon (and altogether it was less

than $20!!).

Once I was home, covering the albums was a cinch- remember in grade school when you had to make book covers? I essentially did the same thing: folding a big envelope pocket and sliding the album into it.

Then I affixed the grosgrain ribbon with a dot of hot glue, and added the dates along the spine with a Sharpie:

I think they still look clean and neat and uniform, but they now have a warmer, softer, home-made quality:

I'm thinking about covering my books this same way...thoughts?

Season Finale

I officially finished my semester on Friday night (I submitted my last assignment at 11 pm) so this weekend has been dedicated to some serious spring cleaning. As I am deciding what to throw away and what to keep, I took a moment to photograph the model from my final studio project, the Vitra Design Museum. Models take up so much space and don't weather very well, so I think this will end up down the garbage shoot in the next few days and with that in mind I wanted to document it thoroughly:

The view from the sidewalk into the museum.

View of first floor and mezzanine from outside.

Another peek from outside featuring more of the staircase.

A bird's eye view into the Sheila Hicks Exhibit.

Bird's Eye View of the entire model.

View of someone exiting the museum.

Sarah's Mood

As many of you know, I've been working on some dream designs for the bakery my friend Sarah is planning to open. We've been discussing a vintage vibe, kind of Anthropologie-esque, with lots of kitchen implements repurposed as lights etc. In terms of materials we are thinking about exposed brick, lots of wood, and muted pastels- maybe lilac and mint??

This is a board of images that I've been thinking of as a jumping off point for the interior:

For Sarah's Bakery

I did a little sketch for Sarah that updates and formalizes a little more the sketches I did before on lined paper in my notebook.

Best Laid Plans

Here are the plans for my Vitra Design Museum. These were printed out 8' high so they're a little hard to see at this scale, make sure to click and blow them up to see a little more detail. Probably unless you've had some architecture education they aren't going to mean anything to you, but for those of you who get something out of them, enjoy:

Process Work

A layout of some of the process sketches I did while designing:

Sheila Hicks Exhibition