salvaged and plotted

This weekend, I inaugurated Spring by preparing to build my rooftop garden. Growing your own veggies is all the rage, everyone's doing it including Michelle Obama.

I was first inspired to make my own Salad garden in last year's Readymade Magazine's guide to building your own Backyard Salad Bar. Now is the time to start sowing your seeds!!

After doing my research and being re-inspired after watching this segment on the Martha Stewart Show, this weekend was spent prepping my bed of salad greens. Civil Eats reminded me that there's Build It Green in Queens where I can find reusuable lumber and other miscellaneous materials to build my garden.
Here is what I found there...


reminds me of Yogi the Bear!



strange straw car...




wood!



Follow this blog in the next couple of weeks to view my progress on the garden. Next weekend, I build the bed and sow the seeds!

Cut X Paste

The August/September issue of Readymade is out! And this is one of the projects I was working on a while back. George McCalman, the art director, was really great to work with and this project was really fun. Here are some work-in-progress shots, different ideas, and the final product.

This issue is really great, with an article about the live/work space of the couple behind Something's Hiding in Here.


Some of the different ideas I submitted for the lettering for the cover.




Final product of the cover. I love the photography/styling in this issue and the model! So cute!


Work in progress for the interior feature. Yes, my desk is that messy.


Final product of the interior feature.