“Thank you to the people who didn’t believe in me … To those who thought they were putting water on my fire, you were really adding gas to it.” Coco Gauff
Author: lillian
Rare Beauty: Product Images Win
More e-commerce shops need to start adopting this way of showing product images on a range of body types so that we, as consumers, can better gauge how the item will work for us. I just wish the team incorporated this into the actual product image gallery instead of via email newsletter. The first time […]
Artist: Known — Illustrator for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ gets long-overdue credit
Give this a listen: A couple years ago, as the writer Sarah Elizabeth was working on her book, “The Art of Fantasy” (out September 12th), a particular illustration kept popping into her mind’s eye. It was the cover for the 1976 Dell/Laurel Leaf paperback edition of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic sci-fi/fantasy novel “A Wrinkle in Time.” […]
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]
1989 (Taylor’s Version) Album Covers
i love them all. [source]
Work Laptop Tragedy
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.
3-Ingredient Bagels
Baking a small batch of 3-ingredient bagels. I love these things.
Book Shelf Thirst
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]
New Headphone Gear
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.