It’s my fashion and I’ll do what I want to

I guess I think a lot more about outfits and organizing and decorating than I tell myself.
Last week I bought some new sheets at Target (I only have winter ones!) and showed them to Sandy.  “I’ll need to get a new duvet…I was thinking brown or a light blue to match.  Generic enough, I don’t [...]

Is it lustful if it is already an object?

In my design history class, my hip British professor would always bring in the DWR catalog and tell us how excited she was.  “Product pornography,” she called it as the entire class ooo-ed and aaah-ed over its glossy pages.
I now get daily emails from the company, which I find more exciting some days than others.  [...]

Not my style

I only bring this up because I’ve always thought the bags to be quite hideous.  Even if they’re supporting terrorism:
HAND BAGS OF DOUGH AT STAKE
Louis Vuitton Malletier v. Dooney & Bourke, Inc. (2nd Cir. 2006)
Louis Vuitton sued Dooney & Bourke for trademark infringement of its Multicolore patterned pocketbook. Early in the case, Plaintiff Louis Vuitton [...]

DWR

I waaaaant it. 

“Are you coming? Good. ‘Cause there’s a porch.”

This weekend was fabulous.  Spent time watching The Music Man, sleeping in, running long distances, making sun tea, buying greens at the farmers market, discussing branding and design, riding my bike, drinking beer on porches, writing cover letters, contemplating life over caffeine, and picnicing.  It was one of those, “I am so glad to be [...]

The library I work at is an architectural nightmare. Yes, it looks beautiful, impressive, and models the barns of ye old days. But, no one considered the user in this whole thing. The building is confusing and neglects the fact that a library shouldn’t echo, carry sound and smells, or have excessive [...]