overcast Tuesday

The House of Health was delightful. Had the opportunity to watch the eight man mens shell turn around right in front of me...quite a graceful maneuver, but a maneuver none the less. All mens teams were out and the women too...a big race must be happening soon....The Head of the Charles? Big Red was looking good...streamlined and in shape...so we can only wish the hometown favorites the best. I am increasing the resistance and speed gradually and watching the heart meter so see movement there...and I am feeling terrific.

Work is good. We are tying up a lot of loose strings. Released a big illustration (4'x5') to an interesting fabricator....3-Form yesterday. 3 Form is a company that can embed illustration or objects into a polyester resin building material that can be used as dividers or art or any vertical material. It can also be poured as thick as well over an inch (we were shown examples of staircases made of this stuff). So imagine an illustrated staircase....or office dividers or hospital waiting room dividers with illustration or paintings reading as the key element. The work is either directly output onto film, which allows a lot of transparency, or fabric (which is what we are doing) which provides us whites and opacity. The sheet size is 4'x10' so we could gang run both the group picture of a dog/cat/horse and a sign for the Baker Institute for Animal Health. The technical specs were simple and part of the process is a sampling of the imagery in 8"x8" squares--to check color, fit. output. We should see that in a week or so.

Tburg Music Boosters are using their new graphic/illustration for notecards, a banner and tee shirt. We are moving mechanicals out today for the banner and notecard. Quickquick turnaround.

Wrapping up a poster, a quarterly calendar, and a series of sketches for Steuben today. Glimmerglass on the board this afternoon. So moving and grooving. Need to get some bills out too!

Mandy is here...with all sorts of little things to do. This is great...as is the celebrated mason and visionary, Dare Daniels--to pour a small slab. Moving in the kitchen yard.

More later. Work awaits!

sweet wireless companions

You know, this wireless thing is something great. It probably will kill us all as cell phones will give you brain cancer and I am sure sleeping with the windows open gives you pneunomia...but it will be great getting there. I am so thrilled and happy that I can live through this generation of people who started with jars of rubber cement and waxers--when fax machines were huge pieces of equipment that you wrapped the image around a glass cylinder and quickly snapped the door shut and spent the better part of 45 minutes sending a black and white piece of art or a typed paper to the typesetter. To now have computers--many and different, to have ipods and cellphones and all manners of communications from voice to IM to pdfs to all podcasts--and never have to cut apart words and wax them together with typos, or ink to perfection (never these hands) a perfect circle, or cut that orange frisket to make layers for the printer...when it is all clean and neat in the computer. So now there is more time for the real work of thinking ,designing, writing, blogging and playing scrabulous(against the robot that always wins).

I am moved to this mini declaration of digital love in the acquisition of a tiny scanner that is big enough to fit into a backpack for Hartford (and all of $135 from the only department store I support, Amazon) and the most fabulous of all---Apple's Time Capsule. Apple says:

Backing up is something we all know we should do, but often don’t. And while disaster is a great motivator, now it doesn’t have to be. Because with Time Capsule, the nagging need to back up has been replaced by automatic, constant protection. And even better, it all happens wirelessly, saving everything important, including your sanity.

Built for Time Machine.
Time Capsule includes a wireless 500GB or 1TB hard drive1 designed to work with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard. Just set Time Capsule as the designated backup drive for Time Machine, and that’s it. Depending on how much data you have, your initial backup with Time Capsule could take overnight or longer. After it completes, only changed files are backed up — automatically, wirelessly, and in the background. So you never have to worry about backing up again.

Backup for everyone.
Have multiple Macs in your house? Time Capsule can back up and store files for each Leopard-based Mac on your wireless network. No longer do you have to attach an external drive to each Mac every time you want to back up. Time Capsule spares you the work.

Room for it all.
Time Capsule is your one place for backing up everything. Its massive 500GB or 1TB server-grade hard drive gives you all the capacity and safety you need. So whether you have 250 songs or 250,000 songs to back up, room is the last thing you’ll run out of. And considering all that storage and protection come packaged in a high-speed Wi-Fi base station starting at $299, data isn’t the only thing you’re saving.

A digital librarian saving ourselves from ourselves. Sweetness personified. I cannot wait to plug it in!
Have to sleep for excitement. More tomorrow!

more news from 3x3

Hello Q
We're putting together the next issue of 3x3 Magazine and I would like to invite you to be in our Showcase.

Spots in our Showcase are by invitation only so I spend a great deal of my time looking at work and selecting specific artists to include in the section. As one artist put it, "Its much more like a curated show." which is the feeling I like to give to the section.

If you're not familiar with 3x3 in addition to our three featured artists we feature 4-6 illustrators whose work has caught my eye. Each artist is represented with a spread in the magazine, a short bio, list of clients and contact information. I personally select my favorite images to be used in the spread, either from your web site or you may send additional images for consideration, all you need to provide is your short bio and list of clients.

More from the "Get it Out there" department!

Try reading...

"A good folk song is easy to learn and hard to forget. Its melody is brief, its chorus repeats, its rhymes lead from line to line like the base pairs in a chain of DNA. A folk song is a meme, an evolutionary biologist might say--–the cultural version of a gene. It passes from generation to generation, evolving as it goes, till every clumsy or extraeous line is stripped away....You only have to hear it a few times to know it by heart"

Burkhard Bilger
The Last Verse: Is there any folk music still out there?
The New Yorker
April 28, 2008

I cracked open the New Yorker last night (it promised to be good with a cute illustration by William Steig on the cover (see left) to find this wonderful article which I am chugging my way through about folk music, it's origins, John and Alan Lomax, and it's migration to the current day. The current Old Time music as defined by the musicians I know is a definite descendant of this tradition--albeit one step away as some of it is interpreted with a new twist--or maybe it is as grandchildren are different from their grandparents but carry the same genes but different histories. I am thrilled with this piece as it is rich and a primer on how this american tradition got from here to there and some of the personalities and people studded in the mix. The Lomax father and son were predecessors of Peter Hoover(who is a Tburger and Godfather to many of the musicians here on our little plateau) and group of field recorders in the Lomax spirit, the men who went into the hollers of Virginia, West Virginia and other parts south in the mid fifties and sixties to record musicians and their music. These closets of recordings are now being opened and pressed into CDs now that it is cheap and easy to do so--and you can get snippets and buy collections from their site>>. Now how does this tie us closer and closer to our local music. Well, because even some of the newer recordings being pressed are recordings made in the eighties by none other than the Chicken Chokers. And now, the Chokers are new and revived--so the energy is around moving the music and attracting old and new friends. Thus, my interest as it is what is old is made new. The clothes of the ancestors worn by the children with great style and panache without forgetting aspects of the past but styled to be "now". I guess this is the context of the americana illustrations I would like to work on for my dream project for my first week at the University of Hartford's MFA illustration contact period in July.

As an aside, Mr. Bilger, the author has written on spiritualism, Lilydale and all sorts of other terrific and quirky things (I searched him on the New Yorker site). I think he is a kindred spirit. I need to read more of his stuff.

More later>>

Errands and such

Apropos of this morning's pix, look at the cute shirt Dale Evans is sporting spanning her cute little bosom. A longhorn. To think. I do not think this little item was at the closing of the Flax Sale.

K and I did about an hour at the Flax Sale leaving A at the Farmers' Market to participate in the Earth Day activities (and I quote--"it was filled with all sorts of trippy hippies..it was insane!"--not a vote of approval). K picked up a cute selection of things she paid for with her money--from a Neesh suit, a sweater, 1 tee and a Neesh buttondown (assymetrical, topstiching in a contrasting color etc). It was way picked over by noon...and they hadn't dropped the prices though there were black teeshirts for $1. at the door before the check out. We had lots of laughs and K throughly enjoyed the sale. She is a cutie.

A played a bit of golf by himself this morning prior to our departure. He then arranged a meet up with a friend at the Farmers' Market. A. reported they were focusing mirrors on marshmallows and wood to show how to save energy by the heat generated to catch fire. He told us about a parade (much like the Grassroots Happiness Parade) that he was pressured to wear wings or a funny hat to participate. He was appalled by the invitation. Sounds like Ithaca on a good day...with Earth Day, Flax Sale, Birkenstock sale, and the high school music festival on the commons, plus the Friends of the Library gigunda book sale.

I treated to Suicide sandwiches at Short Stop--which were consumed silently, worshipfully, and quickly. Impressive. The scene at Short Stop was busy and the food was flying. All the outside seats were packed so the outside buzz was nice.

Then, off to Wegmans for milk, bread, and basics including all the terrific indian sauces we have been eating with chicken and our new most favorite, coriander chutney (jar consumed in less than two days!). It was fun. Then off to get grass seed for our dirt patches....and begin the work that will take the summer and my guess at least $100. worth of seed to make nice...but once it takes...its worth it.

Am working on a new paper to do an illustration (derived from the Memento Mori Willow Tree) for a new wine label soon to be sold under the "Glimmerglass" label. I am working with the pentel and rotring pens on Classic Cream Canson Drawing paper which is pretty dreamy. No texture. Takes the ink nicely and things look nice and sharp. Labels need to be done in a week or so...as they are shooting for wine on shelves before the 4th of July. Hope to have this done today/tomorrow to move the design further.

It was quite cool today (sweaters please!)--with hopefully equally delightful sleeping weather.

Allergies!

I hate it when that dry little cough that hides in the back of your throat wakes up before you do...and then you are startled awake coughing and shaken. My head is splitting and sniffling. I guess it's Spring! Yeah for everything except for the malaise that comes from the coating of light green pollen that clings to everything. It is particularly noticeable on the car--but I think a claritin and some tea might help turn the tide. I hope.

I am working on a series of pared back images (trying to keep it to three colors) with an example of the work above. This is tough going...but challenging much like Scrabulous (if you like Scrabble...this is an elegant rendering of it).It is a bit of an exercise...but the image I just did of a buffalo is pretty good. What is interesting is that the process is changing for me. I work with a photograph and then dump the photo and start really looking at the shapes, at the solids and how the image is broken up. Then, I will redesign the shapes, cut into the big flat areas (as I am finding that the big areas unless intentional can be tedious and need to be broken up to keep the image interesting). I am outputting the image midway and working on top of it quickly with black and white gouache to take the image further. Then, I will freehand those ideas on the existing file--and if need be, do that again. I am intrigued by brush creation in Illustrator. I am making them and modifying them to keep a hand drawn look but cut a bit of the time I am spending on these images. It is really simple...and lets see what happens. This adding and subtracting--the cutting and the patching is very interesting and good training. I shouldn't say this as it is skill building. The Memento Mori black and white drawings were good training for this next step.

I am doing these simple (hopefully going simpler) images as they are strong and could morph to visuals for logos or symbols. I have done complex color images that are photographic....its how do you do that and translate the images without going geometric. Thus the little progression to get my eye "in" and technique further refined.

More later.

sunny day

R is off to the American Museum Association convention in Denver today. He is sitting on a panel discussion tomorrow, so our fingers are crossed that maybe his baggage is not lost and that his travel is as simple as it can be given the hook up in Philadelphia and the dreaded bus trip. K and I got back from the pharmacy for some last minute purchases for R and two rose plants ($5.99) from in front of the store. It is so springy that I can only hope that those nasty deer do not eat the rosebushes...and if they do, I hope the thorns get caught in their stinking throats.

I have been chatting with these wonderful people--both linguists with one of them with expertise in Sanskrit and the Indian culture. I have challenged him to help me find a story for the Ted and Betsy Lewin course this summer, the development and illustration of a children's book. There is a story about the antics of monkeys and a king monkey that looks promising...but we are going to eat lunch and chat about this...and we will see where this can go.

Just got back from the new movie about the Rolling Stones. I agree with many of the reviews...not a 4 but def a 3. There were some sensational moments--perfectly cropped, perfect slices of time and expression that were transcendant. It portrayed men doing their work, with love and humanity as a family. Mick and Keith seemed fragile--albeit with all the steam and energy as before, but somehow on the edge of their abilities but also with age wearing them down. Mick has hearing aids. And Keith, who I never thought as a gentle being--came through not as a campy old musician, but someone who loves his music, the show and his engagement with people in the band. For me, the semi nutty quality that Scorsese portrayed as a character was hilarious--New York paranoia matched with a personal vagueness yet edginess that he portrayed. Scorsese was almost a little guardian angel or animus that spun the plates to bring us this vision of the Rolling Stones. It is a nice hour or so of music. I would try to see it in an IMAX or a theater with kick booty sound. That was limiting for us.

We are having a downpour--Chet the Lawnmower man was hoping and hoping for rain...and I think today we got a bit of what was required.

Flaxinated!

Phew! I just got back from the congregation of Flaxnation. They were all there--all shapes and sizes, in clothing and in bathing suits and camisoles, tossing shirts from bin to bin, trying things on and commenting to their neighbors about how they look and how things fit. Human mirrors with edit buttons.

Highlights include:

> cool linen and silk plaid shirts (colorway being pear and a blueberry and ivory plaid, or a purple, rust and ivory, or a lemon yellow, cool red and one with red/turquoise and yellow). This material is beautiful and has a nice hand and drape. There are sleeveless and sleeved tees to go with them.
> coats. Not wonderful wool like the Eileen Fisher ones--but coats in about 4 different shapes. Ivory, tan, black, navy. The basics.
> if you like florals, there is this box of huge, single colored floral print shirts, tees, pants in turquoise, pink, grey colors (turquoise with turquoise flowers). Big print. I thought is was a bit overwhelming, but the ladies that were draped in it looked good.
> lightweight linen sleepwear: pants, shirts, nightgowns. Pear, white, or a bluish grey.
> Neesh stuff in general. I bought K a forties style dress in black, transparent material and a layered black lace skirt.
> Really nice boyfriend shirts in a puckery cotton in white, washed orange, washed grey, washed denim color and my favorite, a thin blue stripe on white--kind of mattress ticking type of pattern. Same material had pants, capris, wrap jackets and these long tunics with a placket and buttons down the first 6" from the top.
>Flax basics. All linen, all the time. Ivory, brown, black. Perfection.

If you are in the neighborhood, stop by. Its worth it. They give everyone a free, linen bag made of their material to stuff your finds into. The $5. bins are terrific. Prices range from $35. and down. Nothing goes much beyond that. And, they have a ton of merchandise that they are constantly opening up boxes and putting out. So, Friday is different from Saturday and Saturday from Sunday as it is all dependent on what gets moved onto the floor. Plus, a new add is there is a Bierkenstock shoe truckload sale that is happening in the parking lot so you can work the entire LOI (look of Ithaca) if you so desire. Merrill shoes are an option along with Teva sandals. It is the uniform of the Flaxnation. Once a year. We should make it a holiday! Why not?

Ten Images for Ithaca (Greece) Competition

The competition invites this year all designers to set their imagination free and talk about their dreams, whether these are images and feelings the human mind creates while we sleep or their hopes and wishes. Therefore, the term “dream” can also be used metaphorically, it can be the “starting point” of an idea or be the main theme for the final piece.
The ten best entries will be printed into banners with dimensions 2m x 60cm and will be hung along Ithaca’s promenade for the entire summer of 2008. Their creators will have free accommodation in Ithaca on the weekend of the exhibition’s opening (July 2008). Each individual or group may submit up to two posters. In order to enter the competition, each artist has to register through this website. Each piece must have dimensions of 40cm height x 12cm width (15,75’’ height x 4.73’’ width) and must be uploaded as an electronic file (pdf or jpeg), resolution 360 dpi, maximum file size 10 MB.Entries can be uploaded until 31 May 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Have a little time? Could be worth a trip to Ithaca, Greece.

Get the work out there

Meet Amanda, our friend, our helper and all round amazing person. Amanda is an equestrian, a dog and animal lover, student and soon (hopefully) to be studying at Cornell (landscape architecture). I gave Amanda one of my Memento Mori books and she showed it to the tattoo artist she consults and decided to have one of my illustrations tattooed on her arm. Amanda is a tattoo pro--she has a full back tattoo filled with color and very complex illustration. She has a tattoo from her neck down filled with all sorts of color and imagery (including a pierced heart). So,taking the encouragement/ charge from my mentor, Murray Tinkelman, you need to do the work and then get it out there....we are gettting it out there. And, surprisingly, there are takers. We hopefully will celebrate Amanda's new tattoo with lunch with the artist and maybe with a show at the tattoo parlor.

What you can see on Amanda's arm is the outline of the proposed design. The design is transferred to her arm and then is outlined with a fine needle on her arm . Amanda told me that the artist had to get an extra fine needle to do this detail work...the extra fine schaedler pen of the tattoo world. In about 2 months (the artist is way booked up until then), the flat planes of black will be filling the outlines. Wow.

Walk in the Park

Today is "Take your Kid to Work" day--so R is taking A to work despite the fact that school was cancelled. And it's not snowing. It was cancelled without any info albeit there were a few bomb threats at the school yesterday with an M-80 (large firecracker) found in a Middle School bathroom with a note taking responsibilty for the prank and threatening more. I surmise that maybe some preventative work is in place to deal with this prior to it happening again.

Took K for a walk early in the morning. We went to Taughannock Falls park with the poochita to see the buds and early leaves, see the falls and the high water. It was wonderful being in the cool, humid breeze with K. chattering on about her favorite video set "Planet Earth" and all the wonderful details that have lodged in her brain dying to come out. She is such a peach--and we had an amusing time talking about science, nature, biology while Shady Grove sniffed and sniffed and sniffed. The pictures are from that stroll in the morning air.

More later>>

Don't duck it.

Well, now I am coming out. Need to. Need to talk about this. So, here goes. You know (maybe you do) the fear that mounts around turning fifty. Dying, age, losing it and worst of all...the dreaded colonoscopy. Yes, dreaded. So, I talked to everyone I know about their colonoscopy experiences--and believe me, they confirmed my fear and dread. However, my hubby had the test a month ago and told me it was no biggie. As I trust him the most of everyone, I decided to go with the recommendation. And he was right. Honestly, the fasting and prep was the biggest part of the experience. I designed a boxed kit for InsureQuik FIT for the use in doctor's office and/or for individuals to buy and do self testing at their convenience and at home. But now that I have had the procedure, my take is do not think of the ease of the boxed kit, but to take the time and get the real thing--where they are looking at the colon live, if there are polyps, they get them--and get them before they develop versus waiting for a subtle signs the kit detects--when there may be something brewing and in the works. Everything was nice, relaxed and kind at the Cayuga Medical Center--with all sorts of interesting questions down to if I had any cultural or religious issues that I needed help with prior to getting going. Lots of explanations and talk around the procedure and truly, outside of my not being out of it as promised and fully understanding and remembering the experience (dang, they promised the amnesia drug--which they may have given me, but didn't work!). The worst thing was having the IV inserted--and knowing when they would round a bend--but with the "thousand leagues under the sea" visuals or that other movie with some guy and a busty chick that was shrunk and injected into a person's blood stream--it was a virtual reality show with positive results. All in 35 minutes. No biggie. The drug hit me after eating a sandwich and I had to lie down--though I thought I could make a go of it. And now, I am as right as rain. Cannot say it enough, do not fear it...embrace it. This test is worth it as colon cancer is a #3 cause of death for women--and it can be managed and treated so that it is survivable. Isn't that worth a day of fasting, 35 minutes of living a movie and a nap?

It is to me.

wishes

I am fasting for a medical test today and can do clear liquids. And everything looks so delicious--and I can't have it. So, I figured I would post this cake picture from Ithaca Bakery last weekend as a little nod to how I am feeling. And cake is not what is top of the list...but neither is jello. I am looking forward to getting this experience done and putting this food fascination to rest.

Did a bit of walking at the House of Health. Feeling more easy with the room of giants, the machines, the flailing arms and pumping legs. I love how quiet it is and that everyone is plugged in and going their own way. It is definitely each man is an island at Island. The Cornell rowers were out along with all sorts of flying waterfowl (mostly ducks but I saw something else that I had never seen).

Dan Pelavin was very cute in his blog entry "Oh, now I get it"
. Worth taking a peek. It is another search for identity note.

Had a nice time trolling for cosmos type engravings last night for the Solstice, Equinox, Eclipse illustrations on deck. As you can see, I dove deep into the Library of Congress with some interesting images. Not exactly what I was looking for...but, who cares. The journey was worth it.

tons flying over the transom. Must go.

another view of the universe

Descartes's Mechanical Philosophy
According to French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650), the universe operated as a continuously running machine which God had set in motion. Since he rejected Newton's theory of gravity and idea of a vacuum in space, Descartes argued that instead the universe was composed of a "subtle matter" he named "plenum," which swirled in vortices like whirlpools and actually moved the planets by contact. Here, these vortices carry the planets around the Sun.

Isn't this cool from the Library of Congress' Beginnings show.I love this.

okay....its a...

GROUNDHOG!

Back from the house of health. Program change. Walking on the treadmill of time. Surprisingly pleasant looking down on the inlet with the Cornell shells--gliding over the water with their red paddles and energetic rowers. It will be 70 degrees today--so all is well with the world from forsythia, daffodils and little buds. Chet is doing a spring cleanup of the property. Mandy is getting the little tractor fixed and our man, Dare Daniels, is prepping for the delivery of cement tomorrow a.m.

Lots of work on publications, logotypes and illustration for Steuben. Will log in later as we are biz zee.

Oh!
Note to the Flaxnation--this Friday/Saturday/Sunday at the Triphammer mall from ten until... And worth the trip. I think later Friday I may descend on the fabulousity (I wonder if I can take pictures?)

a hint

Does the name, Colby Dransfield mean anything to you?
No more, I fear I gave it away!

tidbit for now

K is back. Energized, excited, enlightened, peppering her speech with french phrases--effusive about her trip. She tumbled off the plane in new clothes--tight fitting hot pink pants with a black dress--draped in a white and pink scarf. I think this french thing might be rubbing off. She made grunge (or her version of it) chic. Indeed! She is sleeping as it was a long trip back. Today will be a segue from the dream to the reality.

We got what we needed for A--shorts, shirts, golf shoes (Calloway no less to his delight) and blue jeans. Limited mall time so we had some relaxing time chez Luckystone prior to the trip to Syracuse for the 10 p.m. pick up. We googled Italian restaurants with ratings and found a slew on North Salina Avenue. We had a great dinner at Antonios (700 N Salina) to the delight of our big boy who delivered a small handcart's portion of tortellini with a loaf of bread in silence. Fork to plate to mouth to plate to mouth to plate until the fork was laid across an empty plate. Seems there are more restaurants and stores on North Salina Street we will need to discover.

More later>>

guess!

Found this guy, dead--not sleeping in the middle of the road. If you can guess what he is, there is a prize!

Our Girl

K comes back from France today. From the two emails we got from her, the trip was more than she expected and she loved every bit. The deal with her peers from school was not an issue by the time she got to O'Hare and by the time she was in the air to Charles DeGaulle, she has some new best friends. So, that is that (and I gloat because I knew it...and told her so!--). So, we are up to Syracuse to pick her up--and will be thrilled to see her though my guess is that she will be planning and plotting for how she can get another ticket to get to France sooner than later. While we are at it, buy A a few pairs of what he thinks is stylish, pants. I just hope we can convince him to have them at least close to his waist size albeit nothing else looks as if it fits. He pulls it off...but it's teen fashion and you never know how you can get it wrong until you do. Additionally, we will see fixures and tile for the bathrooms in the works.

Dare Daniels (don't you adore his name...you would adore him too), the Mason To The Stars has been "at it", with the laying of stone and prepping the ground to have a ton of cement poured (my guess Monday/Tuesday of next week)to get the garage right and tight (and done) along with some stairs etc. Dare is amazing. He is heads down, don't get in my way--a very private man who is extremely motivated and very introspective about his work. We are thrilled to have him as he is a gem of a person and an amazing craftsman who takes the time to do the job right. So things are moving forward with our house projects.

Shady Grove is delighted to be at the lake. She opens the door and lets herself out to sun on the ground, or to guard us on the porch. She has had her spring shearing, so she looks much younger, much puppier and surprisingly cute. With her bangs cut, catching a pinecone is artful...and nary a drop or fumble.

As an aside, got an interesting call from an art director who is located in Interlaken. She was looking for resources who are designers, illustrators, artists for a possible project she has yet to be rewarded. I googled her and found quite a bit--that is very real with very real clients who value quality. She was quite nice and fun--and even if nothing happens, I look forward to meeting her...but if something does happen, it could be a tremendous vehicle to get my work out there in an entirely new venue beyond print. I hope I can say more later>>

My friends, the librarians

I was yacking away with my new friend, and stellar musician, Carol Elizabeth Jones, about old time music and sources for inspiration and reference I could go. She, being totally plugged in, recommended a few books and then send me to a wonderful place we all need to go..The Library of Congress' American Memories Page. There are great digital files you can access for starting points--also, if I were a teacher, files that would drop into a powerpoint for students to really see and understand the time, the topic, the idea in a meaningful way. I am delighted with the printed ephemera section down to actual folding diagrams to depict how a piece shown in the collection would be folded (as indicated in the name of the selection--Leaflet, folder etc.to Double Vertical Fold). These folding diagrams are fascinating as inspiration for design/print/illustration pieces on the possible table at the office.

Check it out. It's a fun time...that could have great payout...and it's free!(albeit supported by those taxes we all had to pay out this past week).