Miami is a well known hub for art of all paradigms but it particularly became a comfy home to pop graffiti artists over the last decade. Vice city has drawn talent from all over the world to tag up the walls of downtown and the infamous Wynwood. (If you don’t…
According to (LINK) in Miami Beach, FL on December 3, 2020, Villa Azur welcomed the return of its raved weekly Thursday night dinner party, combining the elements of dining, live entertainment, art, and music in one remarkable evening. Villa Azur preserves its vision from the entrance to the back of…
The print is an 8×10. You can print it at your house or at a local print place like Costco or FedEx Office. I recommend printing on card stock. Please don’t ask me if you can print it at specific stores because I don’t know. Call the store and ask.…
In attempt to make my own state shaped necklace, I did a little researching last night and found a great tutorial on the blog, V Juliet. I had everything I needed so no trip to the store was necessary. After I made my loop, I started to trace my Indiana shape with…
Our products enable a very pure form of travel, allowing our customer to confidently belong anywhere without worrying about what they are carrying. We have no exterior branding, no padding, they are designed to deflect attention—it’s a raw experience. Our customers appreciate how they age and consider scars well-earned. I…
There’s an old model, which is retail (offline or on; big chains or indie boutiques), that tries to define this. It’s full of waste and middlemen, where designers make less than you think, and makers make even less. It is fairy dust and wanderlust that guide our hands to create what our hearts desire.…
There’s been a buzz in the world of craft and artisanship of late, and I’m not talking about a new artisanal brew, air-dried hachiko persimmons or hand-turned foraged wood beard combs. No: I’m talking about Cuba and Iran. Having the rugs made in Iran again is more than I would…
I have always been a little standoffish about wallpaper, most likely because I don’t particularly embrace pattern. And anyone who knows me will nod vigorously when I say I struggle with color. So the combination of color and pattern being applied in large swathes to a wall is something I avoid…
It was designer Steven Miller—no slouch in the taste department—who first showed me the work of Jenny Hacker, a San Francisco-based textile artist. It was a blanket—black on black—with two different textiles fused together, one side organic cotton and the other, felted wool. A triumph of texture and form, and dramatic, organic, sophisticated, sensual, it…