joyful challenge

birthdays bring out the best in me.

i seem to find as much joyful challenge in realizing personal as well as professional projects.
is it the child in me awakening? is it a warm-up exercise where anything is possible – no briefings. no rules. you are the client. limitless creativity of materials, form and media. sometimes the results prove surprising:

individual tea-light as party invitation
alternating semi-transparent lanterns were sent
to guests as colourful fairy-gathering summons.

doing it for the kids

birthday invitation
personal

Every June I am faced with coming up with a birthday invitation for my youngest child (my oldest has long taken over this task herself).

giving thanks

Although my youngest daughter is clearly not American, one can always give thanks…

coming full circle

Color theory was one of my favorite classes when I was an impressionable design student at RISD. We spent endless afternoon hours laboring over recreating numerous Itten excercises, the mama of them all, the 12-hue color circle.

prolific idyll

My daughter's birthday is around the corner in October, which reminds me, that I have now been self-employed for almost eight years.

labour of love

Don't think that I haven't actually been busy with "real" work all week – what is "real" work anyway?

concrete jungle

I am truly enjoying the wave of warm, Spring days we are welcoming here in Munich.

living it all

At the end of last week, I had lost track of how many people had actually said to me: Heather, you look tired…