MAL this past January, when I quickly took a photo during the pup session of this cute dude standing in the middle of the crowd. I didn’t really think about it much afterwards until a couple of months later when I realized my favorite gentleman had been the one to catch my eye, even before we ever met.
This here, is my birthday weekend photo dump. We spent the weekend all over the city (pretty much eating our way throughout). We had such a wonderful time filled with focus and love for one another and I miss it so. Sitting here in this Starbucks writing this is filling me with traces of all the feelings that flowed throughout the weekend. The getaway might be over…but being together always feels like a new beginning. Here’s to many more.
This was my birthday weekend, too (technically it was the mid-point between both our birthdays), and I just wanted to signal boost because holy crap do I love this man.
It’s been a mostly pleasant time since I left my old job back in September. For the first month or so, I was actively using my newfound free time to get reacquainted with New York, which I actually never quite had time for since moving back in the Summer of 2013. [Insert small rant here about how I let myself work too much, and how my job made that all too easy to justify.] I investigated my new neighborhood, explored various parks up here in northern Manhattan, puttered around my apartment tweaking this to get to feel just right, lost a bunch of weight that had crept up on me over the least couple of years. (I don’t stress-eat every day anymore!)
I also joined a few museums and visited a few others to get myself thinking more about other kinds of creativity than just typography. A long-running passion for type, compounded with a demanding job in the field, had made me a little lazy about investigating other forms of art, no matter how much I have always enjoyed it in many, many forms. It’s been good to set my lens a little wider again.
Eventually, a few opportunities to do some freelance projects came to fruition, easing my fears that I’d starve or default on my mortgage before the year was out. It’s been fun to have a little more variety to what I do again, although I confess that the biggest project was a Monotype follow-up — curating an exhibition in London about Eric Gill’s work. It was fascinating and somewhat cathartic to wrap-up a long-simmering project with Monotype, but with a little bit of distance as an outsider.
Although the first few gigs as a freelancer materialized through the momentum of people knowing who I was and that I was suddenly available, I figured it was time to prepare myself to face the world properly, so I overhauled my online portfolio for the first time in years — like, about 8 years. It was a vivid reminder that I have a pretty eclectic background within the relatively narrow field of design and typography. Also, a reminder that I still don’t have much of an interest in designing web sites.
