Lillian Lee

A blog about art, design, books and random things

September 2023

  • Design Ramble

    It used to bug me that 95% of the designs + illustrations that I work on never see the light of day. But now? I appreciate them because there are worse tasks I could be doing….like, updating a spreadsheet or having to sit through meetings that could’ve been an email. As long as I am…

  • Blank Space

    Blank Space is my all-time fave @taylorswift song. When I used to train at a muay thai gym, we all talked about what would be our fight entrance song – not that I’d ever but… – everyone knew Blank Space would be mine. [source]

  • i love them all. [source]

  • The keyboard on my work Macbook Air is slowly dying. I’ll actually need to take it in for repair/replacement now. I’ve had to force caps lock on in settings in order to get lower case to work, an extra space gets added after I hit the “n” key, and now I’m getting weird returns/quotation marks/emojis.

  • Baking a small batch of 3-ingredient bagels. I love these things.

  • These are the book shelves I want — bottom with doors for storage (because who wants to store books at feet level, especially when you have a cat and their fur collects everywhere?) and then sturdy shelves for hardcovers. [source: Juniper Books]

  • I needed to replace my old headphones — these fit over my ears and the bass is pretty decent. It will be perfect for my impending work commute. I didn’t want to spend a lot in case these get snatched off my head.

  • Before Elizabeth & Mr. Darcy, there was Anne & Gilbert ???? — for me anyway. [source]

  • Yasss @taylorswift ???? Apparently, the studios wanted to release the concert film in… 2025?! Taylor was, like, no. So she and her team started negotiating directly with the AMC CEO. Beautiful. [source]

  • I haven’t seen the first 2 ???? [source]