I was beyond thrilled to be interviewed and have my book Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction’s Most Beloved Heroines featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, the November issue and online. So when they came to me to commission illustrations for the May issue I jumped right in. See the rest below and pick up the issue… (more…)
I’m in love with vintage magazine art. I used to collect magazines chosen for their great covers from thrift stores but I am not a collector at heart and can’t handle piles of things so I’ll just have to stick with this proverbial stack of Ladies’ Home Journal covers New York Magazine/TheCut posted. There are so many gems here. I especially loved the illustrative ones from the 20’s and 30’s.
Afternoon Tea is a gorgeous home goods shop in Japan. I was thrilled to illustrate their catalogs. They’re unlike US catalogs in that they have an editorial bent with hand lettering, thematic editorial illustrations, recipes and of course home goods for purchase. I illustrated the covers for 3 different catalogs in different price points and all of the interior lettering and sweet little illustrative stories about gardening, kitchens, bathing, dining etc… Peek at a few interiors below… (more…)
We just watched the first episode of the new Madmen season last night. I love Matthew Weiner’s attention to detail. The shot of Don Draper riding the escalator against that colorful tile wall in the airport was to die for, let alone the costumes and hairstyles in the rest of the scenes. So I loved checking out these vintage ads from 1969 (the year the new season takes place) to get the vibe of the actual advertising world.
via Vulture (click link to see the rest)
p.s I loved this interview with Matthew Weiner in the current issue of the Paris Review. Pick up the issue (with illustrations by me) to read the whole interview.
I love this photo for Life Magazine by Alfred Eisenstaedt (most famous for his V-J Day photos, you know the one of the sailor kissing the woman in Times Square, right?).
As the editor, writer, poet and former director of photography for LIFE, David Friend, once noted, this picture is Eisenstaedt’s “ode to joy.”
“It was early in the morning,” Eisenstaedt himself recalled of the fall day in 1950 when he took the photo. On assignment for LIFE, covering the University of Michigan’s nationally famous marching band, he spotted the school’s drum major practicing his craft. Then, Eisenstaedt said, “I saw a little boy running after him, and all the faculty children on the playing field ran after the boy. And I ran after them. This is a completely spontaneous, unstaged picture.”
Speaking of happy. “Happy” the song makes Pharrell cry.
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