Its All About Form

by | Mar 29, 2012 | General

Ad agencies are forever trying to integrate client content with marketing strategies and eye catching art design. Designer Andrew Miller, with Carbone Smolan Agency, is doing an about-face with his Brand Spirit Project. Before you read the titles, can you guess the...

Home from St. Martin

by | Mar 6, 2012 | General, Oeffling Art

It wasn’t just a dream, it really was a trip to the islands.  (see the last week’s blog entries)  My sisters and niece and our husbands took a trip to the Caribbean island of St. Martin last week.  It was paradise, from the weather, to the most excellent...

Its All About Money

by | Dec 26, 2011 | Design/Functional, General

As the UK newspaper, The Guardian, looks back over 2011, they comment on how financial issues have dominated the news.  They put out a challenge for artists to “invent new currencies and banknotes for a changed world”, and published the results on December...

Photo Kaleidoscope

by | Dec 14, 2011 | General, Photography/Film

I have been working on more intricate forms for my fused glass mandalas, and the work of Leslie Thornton caught my eye. Leslie Thornton, Still from Blue Bird, 2010 Thornton is an experimental filmmaker who had her first solo show about a year ago in January 2011, at...

Following Wall Street, I’m on the Rise

by | Sep 2, 2011 | General

Just as I finish the details on my new stand up desk, the Wall Street Journal publishes an article on the very subject.   I am pretty excited about it, so decided to talk about it here.  Those of you reading are sitting right now — how long have you been in your...