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Politics of Fashion: Biden & Copenhagen Fashion Week

Politics of Fashion Could fashion become a political prodigy…

How to “Bill Murray” a Brand

What if Bill Murray served you Kung Pao Chicken during a three-hour…

A Month of Joyful Design-The Aesthetics of Joy

Last week I attended an AIGA event with Ingrid Fetell Lee and…

10 Ideas for Gift Giving like a Designer- Holiday 2018

Gift Giving is a wonderful ritual to show gratitude and appreciation…

IFDA EF Valerie Moran Memorial Grant Winner 2018

  I am honored and excited to receive the IFDAEF 2018…
World Trade Center Westfield sketches

Urban Architecture Sketching NYC: World Trade Center

Westfield World Trade Center For my third summer sketch location…

Urban Architecture Sketching NYC: Whitney Museum

Architecture Sketching The Whitney Museum I love sketching from…

Fashion Sketching from Life with Markers

Sketching from life is vital to an energetic and informed illustration. Luckily, in New York City there are many opportunities to find your flavor of life drawing. Be it academic, fashion, sequential art/ animation or

A look in My Book: Masters of Art

Masters of Art

A Look in My Book: Game Changers

Game Changers

Masters of “ARTiculture” @ the Philadelphia Horticulture Show

The first day of Spring is here. The weather is still a little frosty in New York City, but an early March weekend in Philadelphia for the horticulture show sure put a "spring" in my step.

Life Drawing: Evoking the Arrival of Spring

This winter is probably the snowiest and coldest I've seen since moving to NYC nine years ago. That's not to say it's at all similar to anything I endured growing up in Wisconsin

Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk

Said Jean Paul Gaultier the night of Brooklyn Museum's Conversation with Jean Paul Gaultier lead by curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot. He continued to tell a story of how, as a child

The Visions of George Stavrinos Exhibition

I am constantly seeking opportunities to visit art shows of all kinds to glean all that I can standing before an original work. Amazingly, I also get a vibe about

Well-Read Women

Fashion Illustration; I go bonkers over it. So when I heard that one of my favorite illustrators, Samantha Hahn was doing a book signing at Rizzoli Bookstore, I high tailed it over after work to meet her.