Feb 24, 2012
From The New York Times: The Future of Prints Is-Bright Industry experts, retailers and designers see no end to fashion’s love affair with print. If you are following my blog posts on pattern, forgive me if I “repeat” myself but it’s all about big, bold, saturated...
Feb 20, 2012
The sun is out, it feels like the winter that won’t happen, but just in case I am feeling very frisky today. I finished my fourth collection for Durkan, “Mad For Plaid.” Above, I built plaid from my favorite shirt and overlaid it with a floral pattern from my last...
Feb 9, 2012
San Francisco, it’s been 30 years. I may look slightly older but the city is as beautiful as I remember. Coit tower on an early morning walk, a cliche I know but just sometimes you just have to give into it. I was there on business, signing a licensing contract with...
Feb 1, 2012
Ok, I admit it. I’m obsessed with plaid. I thought I could handle it, I could give it up anytime but it only got worse. Now it’s all I can see. At parties, on the street. Plaids of different colors, scales and design eras. I’m doing a new collection for Mohawk /...
Jan 17, 2012
My Chandelier print, one of my most popular images has a back story. We were in Rome as the guest critic for The RISD Rome program and stopped into this beautiful restaurant for lunch in The Campo De Fiore...
Jan 16, 2012
We were in NYC on Orchard St. and fell into a hat store, it was all of 6′ X 4′ and crammed with what must have been a thousand hats. The proprietor has had the store for 47 years, and put his son through Harvard Medical School. I guessed his name (Aristotle) and he...
Jan 16, 2012
As of last fall, I am the new designer for Durkan/Mohawk Carpet hospitality division. My work is being made into six collections a year, all of which can be custom colored in small orders. It’s really exciting to see floor scape as a new opportunity for art. When we...
Jan 16, 2012
I am often asked where I get my ideas, here is a walk through of a recent obsession. On a visit to the Rjiks Museum in Amsterdam http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/ I picked up this brochure and fell hopelessly in love with a fragment of baroque wall paper. I edited it into a...
