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Margot's Pitch Design Union

Margot is a talented lady blogging, thinking, creating, and living Chicago. She has a very nice blog/portfolio site called Pitch Design Union, but she is known to me as the Ampersand lady(for reasons you will soon know). Margot's design work is eye catchingly clean, tasteful, and charming. You can see some of her work below. 

 

Her blog, Pitch Design Union, is filled with all your favorites from illustration, design, typography, textiles, and photography. Take a gander!

Also, I'm very anxious to see how her current project And, The Typeface turns out. You should be excited too because it's a complete "alphabet" comprised entirely of ampersands! That's right and it will be made into a typeface along as some tangible, lickable products!

And to top it all off, Margot is NICE & NEAT & PLEASANT & ENJOYABLE TO E-MAIL! (i typed so many amp&rsands!)

Interview with Ms. Stephanie Brown

Ms. Stephanie Brown is an incredibly talented artist. She is very skilled technically, metaphysically, and her compositions are righteous. Just recently (like today), Ms. Stephanie Brown quickly zapped over some snazzy responses to a few questions. Check out her work and what she has to say!

-- Where/What did you study art?

I grew up drawing dragons, airplanes, bad Sailormoon comics and generally living inside my head...I started at Arizona State University in 2005, where the art program is very technical and assignment-based.  It was hard to keep any interest, I was involved with other things and would much rather paint at home than trace rocks (seriously) in my Drawing I class.  After some coaxing I applied to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and have since uprooted myself from the southwest and now study at SAIC.  It's a very conceptually based school, is strangely esoteric at times, and can sometimes be a bit unfriendly to illustrator-types like myself. But the opportunity to work in the museum and have this amazing archive at your disposal is pretty indispensable...I joke about the school often but it has been a good grounding point since moving.  Another year, and then off into the wild blue yonder.

-- What's your favorite place on the internet?

Favorite e-haunts... the Shorpy Photo Archive is a blog I check often, some of these people in these antique photos have the greatest expressions (case in point) -- they also have a great collection of photos of kitchens, and industrial factories.  Also: Nico Muhly has one of the best blogs I've ever read. I really respect the way that boy can segue between the topics of "Make Me a Supermodel" and David Lang's compositional style.

-- What is your favorite animal?

Are you really going to make me pick?  I love certain animals for their aesthetics, and others for their allegorical properties.   I've always been drawn to the ocean, birds of prey, muscular, long-limbed mammals...I'm obsessed with this video  at the moment, maybe that will answer some questions.

I told you she was rad!

 

-- What are you working on now?

I should be working on working on more artwork -- I'm in this strange lull in projects, and the spring weather is seducing me into riding bikes and sitting on porches. There are a few paintings and drawings that I am slowly finishing -- In a few weeks I am going on this insane cross-country road trip, which will be laboriously documented in a few different ways, and hopefully something *really good* is going to come from it.

Thanks Stephanie! (I hardly had to write anything.)

1918 Vintage

Good day internet friends! This is Will Bryant dropping in for a visit. Special thanks to the adorable & delightful Meighan for having me. Let's go shopping, wink.

1918 Vintage is run by the lovely Meg Lewis in Kansas City. She cultivates great vintage pieces and catalogs them sooper well! Meg is a talented photographer and has done very well in branding her online marketplace. 

1918 Vintage carries great accessories like this bow neckless, in addition to hats, bags, glasses, shoes, dresses, tops, outerwear, and even some mens clothes! (like me, I'm a man y'all.)

Recently, Meg approached me about creating a new logo for her shop! She was a lamb to work with and I'm very pleased with the end result! (See more of the logowork here.)

Go check out the blog too!

Urban Revisions.

As I fly out to San Francisco I am reminded of all the fashion I love in that city. It's such a great place to people watch. Not to mention, I incurred the largest scarf collection in the world living there. I think I've got room for a few more just looking at Urban Revisions scarves. The shredding you see there? ALL done by hand! So each piece is totally unique and completely loved by Arlie. They look amazing, right? I need one. NEED. And who couldn't use another t-shirt. I can!

PLAZM & BuyOlympia team up!

...to bring you their t-shirt of the month club, Plazm Thread. Sicktight!

We are focused on curating a mix of emerging and established talent from the worlds of art and design--our first batch of artists include Ed Fella, Hannah Stouffer, Kate Moross, and Art Chantry--to create a collection of unique, wearable art that are sure to be collector's items some day. Attached are a few of the current designs.

Collaborations are always so exciting, especially when they are a union of these two. BuyOlympia rules (they just celebrated ten years too!) and Plazm is a chocked full publication that is oozing with inspiration.