Thoughts on Design, and then some.
Here’s another print that I recently finished called The Holiday Venn. Loosely based on my original Venn by Penn series, this 5×7 print is the perfect gift that will make your home festive for the holidays! It can also double as a card that can be sent to (and saved by) your loved ones. It’s available for purchase on Satchel & Sage now!
Hi everyone! My wife and I were invited by West Elm and Etsy to participate at one of the many upcoming holiday mini-markets happening in stores across the nation! We’ll be at the West Elm in downtown Austin on December 1st (Thursday) from 6 pm till close, selling a variety of our design goods to help you in your holiday gift buying! If you can make, sign up on their Facebook event page. Here’s the official poster that West Elm and Etsy put out about the event:
So, today we decided to launch a few new products for our Etsy shop, Satchel & Sage, as we continue to create for the upcoming holiday market! In summary, Morgana created some custom Christmas cards and a new feather print, and I made custom gift tags and some new prints based off my contour line drawings from my Pupils & Ink Tumblr.
Here’s the run-down of this first batch of new products, with links to buy them online:
Custom Christmas cards (set of 4 per pack, 2 of each design).
Custom holiday gift tags (14 originals per a pack)
Artifact Series: The Writer 5″x7″ Print
Artifact Series: The Tailor 5″x7″ Print
Artifact Series: The Naturalist 5″x7″ Print
Artifact Series: The Lush 5″x7″ Print
Artifact Series: The Beachcomber 5″x7″ Print
If you want to keep tabs on everything we’re up to, make sure to follow Satchel & Sage on Twitter (@satchelandsage).
A little over a year ago, on November 4th, 2010, I started a Tumblr blog called Pupils & Ink. I started the Tumblr blog to share my weekly contour line drawings of small objects. After 365 days, I had 173 drawings. That’s just shy of about one drawing every other day. That’s not too bad considering I did most of the drawings on Sundays.
Also, I have to point out that the most “liked” contour line drawing I made during this first year of Pupils & Ink was of two Double-D batteries. Pretty strange.
Well, I started giving more thought about why I really started the Tumblr blog, and discovered that my real intention was to create a space that would hold me accountable to practice drawing on a regular basis. So, in order to mix it up and keep myself growing, I’m going to change the style and subject matter of my drawings every year.
For the second year of P&I, I’m going to dive deep into hand-lettering typography. I’ve been doing more illustrative typography in my personal and commercial work, but I haven’t really allowed myself the full range of play and experimentation that I think needs to happen. So, here goes nothing!
