Sheri and Spark to Host a Talk at the MYOB Conference
This September 25-28th I'll be attending the HOW magazine's Mind Your Own Business Conference in Austin, Texas. While I am there I, along with my colleague and Spark VP, Christina...
Patterns Abound
This past week I attended the Directions textile show at the suggestion of one of my friends from Fashion News Workshop. This particular friend thought I would enjoy Directions because...
While You Were Out: We Founded a Design Organization
I just realized that somehow one very important topic/thread of how we spend our time outside of the studio has been missing from this blog...Spark Over 5 years ago, when...
I’m Dreaming of Dreamland
Two years ago on my birthday, The Roxy (nightclub and Wednesday night roller rink) closed for back taxes. My girlfriends and I stood at the doors bounded up by chains...
Create Your Own Niche
What does it take to stand out in the crowd or on the shelves? Personality. A memorable hook. Being remarkable. So then how do you become remarkable? Most companies spend...
Exquisite Corpse (aka the drawing game)
For years now we have this one game that we always play on vacation. We call it a very sophisticated title, "the drawing game," but it does in fact have...
Plastic Bag Graffiti
Biking over the Pulaski Bridge into Greenpoint the other night I spotted this amazing graffiti. Woven out of plastic bags into the fence it is the NYC skyline. If the...
2007 NYC Drinking Water Supply and Quality Report
The 2007 NYC Drinking Water Supply and Quality Report arrived in our mail the other day, so I read it. In it I learn helpful factoids such as, "drinking 2...