Happy Fun, Free, Friday lovelies! Typography instantly draws us to any words. We associate certain ones with kids, others with formal events, and still more with a clean business environment. I was fascinated when I saw the series Marmalade Type…
“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happy Fun, Free, Friday lovelies! Starry, starry nights are some of the most beautiful ones aren’t they? I could only see clear, night skies distinctly when traveling (city girl here and all those apartment lights don’t make for good stargazing!)….
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us…
“New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through the food, the music, and the kinds of people who live there.” Scott Bakula
“Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?” Emily Bronte
“The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I’m always myself – jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.” Cara Delevingne
Information and inspiration are everywhere… history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. John Howe
“Invest the first hour of the day, the ‘Golden Hour,’ in yourself.“ Brian Tracy
“Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.” Fernando Botero