Going from aviation engineer to quilter is as extreme a career pivot as it gets. However, 75-year-old artist Carolyn Mazloomi did just that over five decades ago and then cemented a legacy within the world… Read More »Carolyn Mazloomi Uses the Power of Quilting to Honor Black History
After spending a great many years tracking down cool stuff for Cool Mom Picks (thus, the name), I have learned a lot about sporting merch knocked off from artists, identifying fly-by-night shops with bios like… Read More »My Favorite Harris-Walz Merch from Small Businesses
In this bonus episode of the DesignThinkers podcast, host Nicola Hamilton sits down with Glenda Rissman and Darrell Corriveau of Q30 Design. Rissman co-founded Q30 Design with Peter Scott in 1991 and Corriveau joined as… Read More »DesignThinkers Podcast: Glenda Rissman RGD
As August draws to a close, we talk with Tom Etherington about his beautiful, haunting cover for the UK edition of Jacquelyn Stolos’ Edendale. And from the psychedelic to the straightforward to the splendidly surreal,… Read More »25 of the Best Book Covers of the Month: August 2024
At this time of year I am inundated with press releases for all of the upcoming fall art and design treats that make the end of summer more palatable (including fresh crops of books, fashion,… Read More »The Daily Heller: Nik Bentel’s Leather Croissant
Sketchbook photo © Tim Langlotz Driven by a desire to draw, see new things and develop his skills, Lapin hops here and there across Europe and around the world, sketching what interests him wherever he… Read More »How French illustrator Lapin turned sketching from a pastime into a way of life