Addicted to Zazzle!
Lately I have been very addicted to zazzle. It’s a great website where artists (or anybody else) can post artwork or pictures to be sold on a variety of products.
When you work as a designer in “the real world” it can take many months for your artwork to make it onto a product. There have also been many times where I haven’t even seen the finished product.
On zazzle you get the immediate gratification of seeing your work. By using their design tools you can immediately see what the artwork would look like on the finished product.
My favorite item from my shop has been a pair of shoes that are designed from a painting.
If you would like to see my other products visit my storefront here. I think that zazzle is great and I’m just getting started but if anybody out there wants to open their own shop please let me know if I can do anything to help.
Illustration and Style in Washington, DC
This is a behind the scenes video of a photo shoot my good friend and mentor Ms. Bee Zatcoff just worked on for the cover of Washington Post Magazine.
I immediately felt a connection to this artist. He grew up in MD not far from where I did and he is also Korean!
Urban Textures
As I traverse the unemployment landscape I frequently remind myself that the most important part of being an artist (in my opinion) is having a unique perspective. So I took my camera with me on a walk one day as I went around New York City, around my neighborhood and on the subway and to a job interview, and I captured some “urban textures”.
The idea of taking these types of pictures certainly isn’t original (I just saw a blog post the other day on Build Blog about urban textures in San Francisco, actually). But walking around with this mindset actually helped me have a different perspective of my walk: yes, I was going to a job interview, but I was also on a texture safari. The most fun I had on this safari was looking up and taking pictures of the ceiling – it’s like a whole unexplored world up there!
One winter I was designing and hand printing my own fabrics and I often looked around me for inspiration, instead of trying to come up with designs in my head. I can think of so many possibilities with these textures, from literal translations to abstract inspirations. Take it where you will!














