Entries tagged with 'inspiration'


natural living (working title)

Some of you might have heard through the grapevine about my little book project, which I am doing for a summer course on Editorial Design. I feel it's really important to work with my personal style, so I was really glad we were allowed to choose what type of book and the content it would be based on. Feeling pretty inspired by some talented Flickr photographers/nature lovers, I asked some of them to participate by submitting interviews and photos to me. It will not be published, it's a special one time only thing, and there will be one copy printed for me, and one for each participant involved in the project. (You will all get to see the PDF, don't worry! I know that's not the same...)

Anyway, I'm excited to show you a little sneak peek, I am trying to assemble everything in the "right" order while adding photos that keep rolling into my inbox. I am so excited to see the final printed version, due in ONE WEEK, Ahh! And I will let you know how it turns out : )

Photos in these spreads by Karin Eriksson and Chelsea Fuss from {frolic!}.

oh sweet woods: tumblr

If you're following me on Twitter, you may have seen this already, and I thought I should share it here too. I've always wanted a good place to store inspirational pictures, I've tried visual bookmarking sites (like we heart it) but they just don't seem to have what I need. So I decided, after much forethought, I should start a tumblr.

It's called Oh Sweet Woods (the name of my current collage series) but has nothing to do with my collage. It's all about a certain style I am obsessed with, and it has many names but I will leave it nameless. You'll be able to tell the images all fit together style-wise. It's just a personal inspiration board, and I think it's beautiful and maybe you would too. I chose this brilliant template too, by Ben Delaney, which allows you to move things around in the space, and I just think it looks nice.

So I'll be sharing things I've found from time to time here in more detail, like the last post for example.

EDIT: Okay, I realize I didn't include the link to my tumblr: link. Oops.



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