Silly thoughts, stated obtusely.

You can take the girl out of France, but you can't take France out of the girl.

This isn't Jessica Hische's expressive typography. (Disclaimer: I would cut off both of my arms to be as talented as Ms. Hische ... if I didn't need them in order to draw letterforms with!)

If a year ago, you'd told me that one of the best times I'd ever have in my life was creating typographic posters for Futura, I would have certainly given you some major side-eye.

What do you do when you're compelled to include a HAND DRAWING in a piece you're creating? Edit, edit, edit, and then edit a little more.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the baddest of them all? Our gal Joanie, of course! 

We might never know the answer to WWJJD, but we can still sing her praises and offer her humble icons of her youth — with a little trademark JJ snarl and attitude, that is. 

Boil and trouble! Want a milkshake with that? Double jointed, double meaning, double whammy, double duty, double take, double decker — sometimes two is twice as nice, especially when it comes to double exposures. 

Who doesn't need a roadmap when it comes to love?

Get off the road for St. Poison Ivy! Vroom vroom! 

Some days you just wake up and decide to make psychedelic patterns out of your dusty old photos. Here are a few of my old photos with a newer, math-rockier lease on life. 

If you love art as much as you love artichokes, this post is dedicated to you.

For the caffeine-addicted vintage lovers among you, I present Pocket Coffee, perhaps the most unusual — and most distinctive — packaging I've found in all of Germany. This is my Illustrator-experiment ode to the black sheep of Germany's overfilled candy aisles. 

Love her or hate her, Courtney here is one powerful example of female rock badassery. Here's my second round of experimentation with Illustrator — a grunge-fueled February concoction that's sugar and spice and everything not nice.