1. "When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?"
    Neil Gaiman

  2. Vibrant, inspiring behind-the-scenes photos and collages from PAPAYA! Art.

  3. One of my favorite designers talking at TEDxAthens 2012 about being a creative, and the dangers of thinking too much.

  4. Visual Journal Pages: Fall/Winter 2012

    I started a new visual journal when I moved to Albuquerque for graduate school. Now I have a semester’s worth of pages complete, and I thought I would share some of them here. You can click on any of the photos for a PDF file with larger pics. More below the jump.

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  5. Via Covet Garden.

    Via Covet Garden.

  6. A Gift For You

    So, for all my darling readers that don’t know, I have this thing for visual journaling. I love it. Can’t get enough of it. Stay up far too late at night doing it (Yes, yes, I know. That’s what she said.). If you don’t know what a visual journal is, imagine the bastard child of a scrapbook and an inspiration board, carried to term by a surrogate diary. I’ve been making these for the last five years, and as you can tell, am a wee bit obsessed. Visual journaling allows me to put all my paper hoarding, embellishment buying, ephemera saving, mess making potential to work in a way that both invigorates my creative brain cells, and serves as a sort of self-awareness meditation at the end of a long day.

    Now, I’ve featured excerpts from my journals here before, but usually only in incomplete bits and pieces. So, I thought it might be nice to share a little more of my completed work here on MissieSue, and to that end, have spent all week compiling the last six months or so of my journal pages into a e-book entitled Flotsam: Pages from My Journal. You can download a free copy of this book by clicking here, or on the photo above. I hope that this project will inspire you to carve out time for whatever creative process inspires your own joy. Please comment and let me know what you think; this is my first e-book, and I’d love for it to start conversations with other creative types. Enjoy.

    Note: This e-book contains many high resolution photos. Please be patient while downloading.

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