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Happy Birthday, Charles Dickens
This is a favorite Dickens quote, and one that’s especially fitting for me today since I just returned from Paris – a place I visit, leave and revisit often. The design is based on a cobblestone...
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Emerson, Fitzgerald and Gide
I had some time this week to complete several designs for the Illustrated Quotation Project, and would love to share them with you. MARTINI “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never...
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Bear Ceuse Album Artwork
I knew I was going to like Cameron Matthews right away because his band’s name – Bear Ceuse – was completely improbable. I met with him and guitarist Adam Home in NYC to hear some tracks, and instantly...
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Happy Bloomsday
Many of us celebrate father’s day, but what about Bloomsday–the day James Joyce fans celebrate Ulysses? My ode to Joyce is above, and was inspired by a portion of Molly Bloom’s soliloquy in the book....
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For Your Thoughts and Pockets
I hope your summer is off to a great start. We’ve been quite busy with the kids’ end-of-year school stuff, vacation, producing Volume 2 of The Paris Journal, and launching a few new lines of paper...
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Obvious State T-Shirts
T shirts are in the shop! So far there are just ten designs in this limited first run, but each is available in men and women’s small, medium, large and extra large. See them all here.
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Two New Designs: Locke and Khayyam
I recently completed two new designs for the Illustrated Quotation Project - inspired by quotations from John Locke and Omar Khayyam. As far apart as these gentlemen were, I enjoyed alternating work on...
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Our “Biggest” Giveaway Ever
Ever since we began making prints of Nichole’s photography, we’ve been adamant about producing the best quality prints we could. We’ve never been fond of most photo papers – especially the glossy kind...
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Big Winners + Big Sale
Congratulations to #35 Erin and #229 Gail. Thanks to random.org, you’re the winners of our “biggest giveaway ever” promo. Drop me an email at info@obviousstate.com to let me know which print you’d...
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Roo Kee Roo
I first met Michael Evashevski – one-half of the talented duo behind Roo Kee Roo – when I was working as a copywriter for Tribal DDB. We were the creative team assigned to a skin care campaign, and...
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Three New Illustrations
I thought I’d share the latest designs for the Illustrated Quotation project. “Is there no way out of the mind?” – Sylvia Plath My mother (a Smith graduate) introduced me to Sylvia Plath when I was in...
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I Have Measured Out My Life With Coffee Spoons
While sipping my afternoon coffee today, I had the unsettling realization that I have ingested thousands of cups of coffee. I took it easy in college, but when I put the artist’s life on hold and had...
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Paris Neighborhoods
[ylwm_vimeo height="371" width="660"]57692587[/ylwm_vimeo] This video by Havas Worldwide Paris just made my day. Inventive, clever storytelling about different areas of Paris through simple...
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Hand Painted 17th Century Map
This portulan (a type of nautical chart used from the 13th to 16th), by Francois Ollive is hand painted on parchment. Though it’s four centuries old, it’s still detailed, saturated and vivid. It was...
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Paris Traveler Series
I love travel posters – both for the sense of adventure they instill, and the way they allow the artist to take a complex subject like a city and distill it to a simple icon. When it comes to Paris,...
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Kafka’s The Trial … again?
Oops, I’ve done it. I typed a dangerous keyword. I assume the NSA supercomputers in Utah (is that you, WOPR?) are monitoring this blog post. I should have written Éd\/\/ård $nø\/\/dén. Or would that...
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