IKEA West Chester parking lot

I turned the car around for this one because, well,
there just aren’t that many leaves left with vibrant color.

I close out each week working from home.
This is my desk.

Might as well capture these vibrant colors while possible,
before everything takes on the tone of professors in corduroy.

In other news, thanks to Shake It Records, I learned of The Swell Season.
(Who, if you saw the movie Once, you’ll know as Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova)
Anyway, they have a new album out this week and I am smitten all over again.
Choice track I can’t stop looping over and over? “I Have Loved You Wrong”
(the ending a cappella bit gives me goosebumps)

The colors of autumn.
I just wished it stuck around for like, two months.
So. Dang. Glorious.

Ethan Bodnar hit me up, gosh, it’s been over a year ago – to see if I’d be game for a design book he was curating.
Each designer was given a task to complete, mine was to make up a book jacket.

I was feeling the season and used my Pantone Autumn photograph as a starting point.
To add another layer of myself to the mix, I printed it out, mocked it up on an old paperback,
ran it over the pavement outside for a little patina and then took a photo.

I’m happy with the result and you can find it along with a ton more tasks completed by other designers.
An honor to be in the mix.

More info about Ethan’s Creative Grab Bag book.