Miscellaneous Adventuretimes!

W 46 st = haunted by bagel ghosts. RIP, H&H bagels. :( 

on the pier @ Hudson River Park 

 What a lovely night for a concert next to an aircraft carrier.

 There's a spaceship in my backyard now. Got to watch the installation of the Enterprise from my office window, and went to inspect the delivery when I got home—it  still had the packing materials on. :)

 Lovely late afternoon light in a little park down in Alphabet city

 Clearly the best art installation NYC has ever seen. POLKA DOTTED WONDERLAND: swoon. 

 Waiting for the fireworks to start on the fourth of July

Pretty rubble on E 23 st

 Type love @ the Highline

 Oh little water tower, you are so cute.

It is not often Seymour gets the right light to escape being a vague black blob in photos.

Faithfulness

Darn it.

Another one in the theme of innovation labs—this little scientist's latest sinister experiment clearly went very, very wrong.

Preparing for Takeoff

The prompt for this week's assignment was innovation within large corporations. As this is a theme that also daily asserts itself in my professional life {as someone tasked with being creative in a giant corporation}, I've had lots of opportunity to ponder what circumstances make for the ideal innovation lab. I've explored this here with kids, the segment of our population most frequently in the ideal place to create.
In this instance, these guys needed a rainy day—a large stretch of unstructured time in an uninteresting place with a few excited friends, a few supplies, and a self-directed project they've got real ownership of. As the sun breaks out of the clouds, they've now got something else they'll also need; a chance to get outside and see if that work can really fly.

Kindness & Goodness

Pieces 4 & 5 for my bi-weekly series over at The Wheelhouse were interesting to tackle, as kindness and goodness are often used interchangeably in casual language. 

This is, for the sake of my sanity, a large simplification, but I decided to distinguish them here by treating kindness as a particular instance of action {have my mittens, cold-handed friend}, and goodness as having a supply for a number of those actions {it's snowing right into my snow cone machine on this hot summer evening, how convenient}. 

Hey, that's me in there!

Much excitement in Amanda-land this week: I just got my shiny new copy of Denise Bosler's magic-filled "Mastering Type." I'm super honored {and a little baffled} that a few of my pieces and an interview with me are included in this textbook of type-wizardry. It's a really thorough, well done, + gorgeous textbook {published by HOW books} chock full of crazy good work—I'm super pleased to add it to my little library. Studying design, or looking to brush up on your typography skillz? You should totally go get it. :D

"There's something special about him," she thought.

Broccoli and Ruby had so much fun that summer afternoon that they just couldn't be separated at sundown. They celebrated their new BFF status by taking merrily to the evening skies on the amusement park ferris wheel.

Clearly we were meant to be.

Our assignment this time around was to do some sort of promotional work or PSA-ish piece related to health. I went the "Hey kids, veggies are your friends" route because I have been itching to draw broccoli and here realized that I had a character in my repertoire that he would hit it off with instantly. Indeed, they had so much fun together that I turned this into a two piece series—stay tuned for more of their day of summertime goodtimes! :D