The main reason I like to do side projects, and sell cards on Etsy on top of my day job is because it’s fun. So one day I was thinking about my long term goal of being that old lady in the creepy old house at the end of the street…

We are going to take a very brief look at an interesting London Underground map that I recently happened across. I think way finding design is especially interesting. It involves communicating an idea clearly and efficiently without taking for granted that the viewer speaks the same language as you.

Florence Broadhurst lived a life more elaborate than most people can dream up. Some might say she even lived several, adventurous lives, making up a new and exciting personality for each city and occupation she took on. So would it be all these personalities, names, business successes, business failures, and adventures she would be remembered for…or her murder?

The Spook School, more commonly known as The Glasgow Four, was a small group of artists studying at the Glasgow School of Art in the late 1800s. The Four were comprised of two sisters, Margaret MacDonald and Frances MacDonald along with Herbert MacNair and, most famously, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

So, what is art deco? Maybe you’ve heard the phrase, but you’re not really sure what it means, or maybe you are familiar with the style but aren’t really sure what it’s called (give me ten seconds and we’ll put the pieces together). Maybe you know all about it and I’m about to make myself look like an uneducated fool.