I found these images while perusing Flickr the other day. I have a major soft-spot for old images so I grabbed a few to put in my idea bin and then ended up making this.
PS -- these photos belong to The Royal Library of Denmark and have no known copyright restrictions, sooooo, if you feel inspired, make something with them, woo!
Team, meet my new paper cutter!
I went down to Portland this weekend to pick this baby up from Joke -- OMG, it is everything thing that I dreamed of, and more. It's like a printers wet-dream. My God, this thing is amazing. Once I got it home and in position I had to take it for a spin -- I promptly grabbed a huge stack of my scrap paper and clamped it down -- to my shock/amazement (I didn't know what to expect) it sliced through the paper like butter. GAH! Do you know how much time this is going to save me? Hours I tell you, hours! Many of them, it is going to be awesome!
A huge thanks to Joke for thinking of me and selling this to me, I cannot tell you how excited that I am -- super, extra excited is a start.
[source, image by BDR]
I decided that I need to draw more. I know that this isn't a drawing, but it sort of is ... and one of my favorite things to do it to hand letter things. So, a new goal for myself: draw, illustrate or hand draw something once a week.
[image and lettering by BDR]