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Workspace Do-over, Part 2: An encounter with fractions

November 18, 2010

I’ve tried time and time again to create an organized, efficient workspace. Tried — and failed, always wondering why my diligent efforts toward simplifying the space weren’t paying off. I’ve always been taught that the key to having an orderly workspace is changing my space to fit the way I work. I know how to [...]

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Workspace Do-over, Part 1: Gah!

July 12, 2010

It’s probably safe to say that the need for a neat, organized, and attractive workspace is universal. But with restrictions on time and energy, lack of motivation or direction, or just sheer laziness, making (and keeping!) a tidy workspace can be an effort to say the least; for some of us, it’s an insurmountable task. My perfect space [...]

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Weekend studio

March 1, 2010

My favorite thing about watching the Olympics is that I always come away from it feeling indomitable – like even my most lofty goals are attainable with focus, determination and imagination. So that’s what’s been on my mind lately: setting goals, making plans, imagining new directions. Since I’m in the middle of seriously reorganizing my [...]

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Hearts

January 28, 2010

Eventually, I figure, it will come. I will discover the secret to just making stuff up and designing it and planning out the production. Jen will get more phone calls or e-mails from me begging to borrow her love of repetitive, tedious projects. And Oomphasis will churn out lots of stuff. To go in the [...]

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SoMd Ink

September 5, 2009

I’ve been quietly and steadily working on some new print designs for a few weeks now. Today I pulled the first proof! I put it behind a black mat to get a better idea of what the finished print might look like. The idea came from wanting to play with the quality of light linocuts [...]

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Pressed

March 24, 2009

I’m down to the last month or so of my master’s thesis project, and so until my semester ends on May 3, there’s nothing, nothing I tell you, coming out of this lady’s studio. But I did get something new. It’s a small etching press: a Blick Econo Etch Model II. Nothing fancy, nothing fancy [...]

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