design geeks

For those of you who don't already know this, my husband Patrick and I are total design geeks. We met eleven years ago in art school; both of us were planning to be illustrators, and both of us came out of school as graphic designers instead. We are not just designers as a profession—actually, I'm not really working as a designer much at all these days—design is a part of nearly everything we do.

Our conversations vary from graphic design, to fine art, interior design, architecture, film, and product design. We love it all. If you were to visit our house, you would probably catch one of us staring at a wall in our house and studying it intently because we are constantly remodeling or rearranging in our heads. In fact this morning's conversation ranged between track lighting and the popularity of slab serif fonts.

But, back to graphic design. Today Patrick drove down to Portland to hear the Designspeaks lecture by Frank Chimero, one of his favorite designers. Frank is a talented illustrator and designer and a gifted writer. Patrick has a few of his posters in his office and we purchased these prints that are in our kids' rooms (note the $2 thrifted frames). They are from his "States" series.

I'm looking forward to hearing all about the lecture tomorrow. Check out more of Frank's work here, and be sure to read his design philosophy here.