Why yellow makes me happy

Georg Baselitz's Woman of Dresden – Karla.

Why I heart an ode to vintage sci-fi.

I've always always had a soft spot for science-fiction. Its probably because as a kid I used to always cuddle up next to my dad on the couch, Friday nights at 8 pm to watch Star Trek (I remember vaguely the original) and then more specifically Star Trek: The Next Generation. So when I came across the series that Kahn & Selesnick created I was ecstatic. Much of it has obviously been digitally photoshopped, but still well done.

Along that same vein, these photos also reminded me of a short film I saw awhile back called Connected. The synopsis describes it as set in the distant future, Connected is a story about survival and greed with a post apocalyptic wasteland as its backdrop. Survivors of an unknown disaster shuffle through a desolate landscape, as it quickly becomes clear that not everybody has the strength to survive.
 

Two blogs I love

While on lunch I'd love to share two blogs I'm addicted to.

Animalarium is fulfilling my animal illustration addiction. After trolling through I discovered a beautiful post about Andy Warhol's illustrator days... and... a post on Millions of Cats (a childhood favorite of mine). I love little surprises like that!

Did I mention that Book Worship is packed full of beautiful little book design jems?

I ♥ Europe: Spain

I just got back from a lovely vacation in Europe for two weeks (my first time ever, teehee!).

Did you miss me?

I missed you ... beautiful Seattle.

While gone we specifically hit Barcelona, Spain, various cities in Switzerland and Italy. It was fabulous to get a sense of the food, the smells, the sounds, the history, the fashion, design and the art.

First things first. Can I just say with all honesty that I ♥'d Barcelona's Metro?

The Metro is an extensive network of electrified railways that run underground in central Barcelona and above ground into the city's suburbs. I was so incredibly impressed by the ease of use as well as the information graphics.

Don't speak Spanish (or Catalayn in this case)? Not a problem. I known maybe a handful of Spanish phrases and had absolutely no problem navigating my way through it ... not to mention that the metro's graphics (and much of the design I saw related to it) was just really really easy on the eyes.

Why I love Fridays

Well, its Friday and my last day of work before we start off into the great unknown that is our vacation. I'm excited (thrilled even), but nervous.

Number one there are protests going on in France.

I won't bore you with details, but basically the large unknown of what we'll be walking into when we arrive there and fact that we were going to dependent on a car (rented) to get us to the multiple locations and countries we'll be visiting while on our trip. I'm all for fighting for your rights as citizen, and I think that its totally rad that there is such a civil unrest about raising the retirement age by only two years. Damn...retirement at 62 here would be fabulous ... I'm sure most of us in the states can agree that retirement even at 65 is highly improbable because of most of our retirement security-net being gutted over the years and being forced to be on the graces of the commercial stock market to gain our freedom from a long life of work and toil. But I digress.

Number two, I hate flying (as in, I probably certifiably have a medical reason to need to take medication to combat my anxiety), and we have a good day ahead of us just in flights.

But ... I'm going to attempt to not focus on that, and instead share some lovely work I've been drooling over for awhile.

I've been oogling over Studio on Fire for awhile now. I would give my right arm for a lovely little table top letterpress and their ideas are just so pretty I could look at them all day.