Reunion weekend

I am heading home to Palm Springs for a huge family reunion, (yes, people actually are FROM Palm Springs). We even have cousins flying in from Australia to attend. It's going to be an interesting weekend to say the least. I heard part of this little ditty on a Kate Spade promo and it reminded me of going away for the weekend. I will make it my anthem.

"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."

There are a lot of posts out right now dedicated to Steve Jobs passing yesterday. I debating heavily doing one myself. And obviously you can see my decision.

I was thinking last night how big of an impace Mr. Jobs had on my career and life. Not only would my first computer not have been the first iMac out there, you know the big alien-shaped blue cone head one, but moreover, I may not have gone into design. I loved Macs and loved designing on them. If I had to design on a PC, I may never have done so. Period.

So, a heartfelt "Thank You" goes out to him and his family and friends, the people that touched his life, so that he could touch mine so greatly.

I will leave you with this great wall paper design from The Fox is Black. You can download it here.

Headline quote from the 2005 Standford University graduation.

Travel with a Cote

traveling. i sure do miss it. growing up is great, but a full time job and bills, not so much. i think i must have taken my first backpacking trip with my mom when I was 12? And yup, you guessed it, she made me wear my own backpack. And yep, it was pretty much bigger than me. And I loved it.

so when i saw these images/illustrations from the Cote D'Azur, you guessed it, i quit, and got on a plane pronto.

ok. well, not really. but you wouldn't blame me. would you?

and of course illustrator Catherine Orchard is coming with...

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Roma-Roma-Ma Oh

Another great campaign by my old pals at Ogilvy & Mather (oh for the good ole' time when I was a lowly intern there)  

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It's in the Abstract

while catching up on some of my favorite blogs, I ran across this lovely painter Linda Donohue (via The Fresh Exchange). Enjoy!