In my opinion, melons are the color of summer as much as blue skies and green grass — perhaps even more so, since they are so seasonal and autumnal days can have sharp blue skies, too. There’s a lot of variation in melon colors, from color intensity to contrast, which Read more…
As a result of WWI, the American economy was booming. Factories and industry kept people employed while causing a lot of social changes. The rhythm of industry, the new wages and shifts in acceptable behavior covered over the underlying sense of desperation from the War and created the blinding glamorous Read more…
What exactly is the difference between the Arts & Crafts movement, Art Nouveau and the Art Deco movement? It’s a combination of technique and shape. At the end of the 19th century engineering and design merged to create wicked curves. Blame the advancements of the railways, but curves lent themselves Read more…
In design, think of your art and the surface you’d like it to cover as a relationship. If there were a mathematical formula that predicted the success of that relationship, you might just be interested, right? In probability theory, the practice of identifying a standard deviation between relationships can be Read more…
I frequently joke that I like to deco everything. From animals to furniture, giving objects a deco look is one of my favorite things! At one time in college, I studied mesoamerican archaeology, so bringing up some Mayan temples in my designs seemed a natural segue. I played a lot Read more…