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Audrey Hopkins

Design Thoughts

Cool As a Cucumber . . .

I have to admit, sometimes a saying (like this one) captures its meaning so well.  Cool as a cucumber to me means at least a chapter on summer days and nights and all their green growing things, windy days with cool breezes and moving cucumber vines that grow long and Read more…

By Audrey Hopkins, 12 years ago
Design Thoughts

Summer Heat Brings Daylilies

Just when you start to lag and wilt in the summer heat, along come the cheery daylilies!  I played with a green theme here to bring them into the late summer / early fall season.  There’s so much fun to be had playing with earthy tones right now.  I can Read more…

By Audrey Hopkins, 12 years ago
Design Thoughts

Melons Make the Best Summer Colors

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…

By Audrey Hopkins, 12 years ago
All About Deco

Mechanical Gears in the Jazz Age

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…

By Audrey Hopkins, 12 years8 years ago
All About Deco

Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco — What’s the Difference?

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…

By Audrey Hopkins, 12 years8 years ago
Design Thoughts

Standard Deviation and How it Can Help Market Your Designs

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…

By Audrey Hopkins, 12 years ago

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