veekee agendas

following a three month ordeal which you are welcome to check out on my flickr, i am pleased to announce that i have somehow managed to create 100 hand- silkscreened, vintage silk scarf bound, originally illustrated agendas with

pockets and stickers. veekee agendas can be found at Uppercase Gallery in Calgary, Nokomis in Edmonton and Propeller Clothing in Osoyoos B.C. If all else fails, you can also get them at my Etsy shop.

They were truly a labour of love. i hope you enjoy using them as much as i enjoyed picking the fabric, drawing the interior spreads, and mucking around with a silkscreen and gold paint.

xoxo,
vikki

ps- there are 50 more books which i have not covered . i'm willing to do custom orders...let me know!

Making Artistic Careers Lucrative

I got tingles down my spine tonight when I read this article from nytimes. Working in a creative field and making a living at it is the dream. Point: there's only room for a handful at the top. Indeed, few of us will become massively successful conceptual painters with solo shows at SFMOMA, but many of us have a rock solid chance of making a fulfilling career where we don't starve and can maybe afford a side trip to San Francisco without having to mortgage out your cat to fund the damn trip (ermm...). Have faith, my creative, unable-to-stomach-the-temp-job-anymore friends! You can do good work and not sell out!

Tips and tricks? Post freely.

microphotographs

totally neat images (this here's a Dune Mouche) curated by SFMOMA (via Wired). There's a quality to them that is something between drawing and photography...and gel transfer?

lovely package indeed

there's something about those overly intricate mint tins (altoids, newman's own, etc) that make me stop in my tracks and share them with y'all.

(from lovely package via notcot)