Friday Bits
Is it honestly already Friday? Perhaps not the best week, but at least it flew by. Thank you for sharing your own thoughts on things that make you happy this week and making me feel less alone in my blahs.
It was a good internet week, I had too many things to pick from today!
1. Michael’s latest portraits are an inspiration to me for my pledge to take more of them myself. Photo by Michael A. Muller.
2. The Wilder Quarterly (such a great publication) blog is full of lots of gems, such as this tidbit I was not aware of: Over one third of all cacti species are endangered and cacti fall just below drugs and guns as the most popular item smuggled out of Mexico. I had no idea! An important thing to know when purchasing a cactus – was it legally grown?
3. I don’t often share personal design work here because a lot of what I do is quite corporate and not too terribly exciting these days – but one very exciting project was redesigning Anabela’s wonderful blog, Fieldguided. She was a dream client and I’m so happy with how it turned out, thanks to Geoff’s awesome coding skillz. You can read more about it here.
4. Edits Quarterly is an incredible new online publication of “short narratives in film and photography”. The site is beautifully designed and the functionality is really inventive and inspiring.
5. How great are Sian Keegan’s new bags she’s working on for her shop? A custom bag for my jewelry is my dream someday.
6. Maria, aka Miss Crowland, has a new custom portrait offering in her shop and used a photo of me as an example of her amazing work, which is really fun. Anabela and Geoff are also in there, so this is the Kate, Anabela, and Geoff edition of Friday Bits. She also previously she used Wendy for her pet portraits, so we are just mugging it up in her wonderful shop.
Have a great weekend, friends.
March 9th, 2012 at 10:34 am
I ALMOST bought a Wilder Quarterly last weekend, but hesitantly put it back on the shelf. Maybe next time. The redesign on Anabela’s blog is totally lovely! (and inspiring!)
[Reply]
March 9th, 2012 at 10:38 am
I’ve had a case of the blahs lately so I appreciated your post this week. I find that taking a walk, having a cup of tea, looking at art, and (of course) hanging out with my cat help to cheer me up a bit. Hope you have a lovely weekend!
[Reply]
March 9th, 2012 at 11:43 am
Hey, a girl has to get her inspiration from somewhere! ;)
[Reply]
March 9th, 2012 at 12:43 pm
fieldguided perfection.
thanx for the bits, kate. :)
[Reply]
March 9th, 2012 at 1:31 pm
Haha, love this post! Memememe me me meme. I have an issue of Wilder Quarterly on its way to me, can’t wait! I love the blog even though I have to click out of Reader to look at it.
[Reply]
March 9th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
(The Wilder Quarterly blog, that is, of course. I liked that post about Lana Del Rey having a great florist.)
[Reply]
March 9th, 2012 at 7:20 pm
I love what you did with Anabela’s blog, you can tell the design really stems from her personality – it just ‘fits’ so well. You did such a beautiful job Kate.
[Reply]
March 10th, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Hey Kate, you need to do an apartment tour!
[Reply]
Kate Reply:
March 10th, 2012 at 2:44 pm
My place is definitely not ready for that!
[Reply]
March 11th, 2012 at 6:42 am
so nice!
[Reply]
March 11th, 2012 at 12:13 pm
[...] (via) 5. Browsing the Voyager issue of Edits Quarterly, short narratives in film and photography (via) 6.Wanting to eat the Pantone Sweets by Emilie Griottes (pictured below, [...]