Thesis Update

For my Graduate Studio Thesis project I am developing the visual language for The Pôsterie (a letter writing cafe), whose mission is to revive the dying art of letter writing and bring it together with the digital world. These are some signature patterns I've been developing for The Pôsterie. These patterns were developed with the brand in mind as a way to visually convey bridging the old with the new, tangible with the digital, and revive the nostalgia of the written word, letters and mail art. The patterns were inspired by writing tools, letters, stamps, airmail, photographs, stories, French culture, cafe culture, and vintage package labels, ephemera and collections.

Around Venezia

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="604" caption="Paper dragonflies pop out of the wall paper in a Venetian storefront"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="491" caption="The Venetian lamps have turned pink over the years due to the amethyst in the Murano glass."]Venetian pink lamps[/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="604" caption="I love Renaissance fashion! I might need to start a line of shoes inspired by Renaissance paintings. Can we say gladiator sandals anyone? Taken at the Accademia"]Renaissance Shoes[/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="604" caption="Gorgeous hand painted hanging lamps in Venice, yours for only 2,000 euro! Maybe I'll buy one when I move into my palace. "]Venetian Lamps[/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="604" caption="The icons on this sign are hilarious! We need to use the pregnant woman icon in the states."]Reserved Seating Sign[/caption]

Biennale Arte 2011 - Venezia

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="491" caption="The entrance to the cafeteria at the Biennale"]Biennale Cafeteria[/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="604" caption="I found this exhibit in the Korean pavillion. There was a square room with giant "mirrors" on all four walls. The frames were mirror frames, but the "mirror" was actually a monitor. As you walked in the room there was the sounds of glass shattering and it looked like there were bullets going through the glass, in a slow time lapse. Apparently the artist worked on this piece for the last 20 years."]shattered mirror[/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="491" caption="I found this piece at one of the Bienniale satellite exhibits along the Canal Grande in Venezia. Its like a make up compact but the pressed powder is the floorplan of a church! Love!"]Compact Church[/caption]

Pisa

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="491" caption="There are other cool things in Pisa than the leaning tower. This scaley dome for example, has great texture."]dome[/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="604" caption="Detail on the leaning tower"][/caption]

Pantheon

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="491" caption="The architectural genious of the ancient Romans, the width of the Pantheon is the same as its height."][/caption]

City In The Trees

In this texture study I layered the Boston skyline into the intertwining branches of a tree. I tried to capture the seamless moment at sunset when the buildings transform from outlined silhouettes against a brilliant sky, in to vibrant, sparkling statues in a city scape. I was inspired by the structural and permanent nature of buildings and trees, and the contrast between the organic and angular forms that you find in a city park.