Vignettes: Strawberry Fields Man with the Guitar Another day. Another twenty-three dollars in profits. I sit in this same spot from 8:32 am till 1:02 pm singing for those who visit strawberry fields. The typical songs, the expected songs, John Lennon’s songs, pretending I’m John Lennon. I didn’t know John personally but he was […]

Why do I design? And if I design is it for function or for appeal? Everything now a-days seems to be mostly visual because we are drawn to attractive things. Function is very important though, but we seem to not care as much as we did before about this. It is our job as designers […]

Transformations do come at a cost. With every change we are sacrificing ourselves and who we once were. But we are all transforming ourselves into someone else everyday. Looking at ourselves, we cannot see that we have changed so drastically. Year by year we make what we think to be “improvements” to ourselves. Our physical […]

Why don’t art schools get enough credit? When someone finds out I draw they all say the same thing, “Wow you’re lucky you can draw” as if I didn’t put in any work. All skills take practice even those that are not art related. And yet, we are seen as not going to a “real” […]