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fkp NEEDS YOUR VOTE!!!

December 4, 2010

The Say Something Poster Project online voting has begun and I need your vote to get me to the semi-finals!! The Say Something Poster Project is a poster design competition and gallery show created to give designers the opportunity to use poster design to say something that will inspire, motivate or educate teenage kids. Winning [...]

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Limited Edition Hand Pulled Holiday Cards

November 22, 2010

I have just finished a small batch of holiday cards. The cards come in sets of 6 different designs with silver ink on various color 100# Neenah papers. There are also gift tags in sets of 5 with 4 different designs!! Get yours now!!! Please have a look, share the link and enjoy the season!!

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PaperGirl Manchester October 29, 2010

November 18, 2010

Filmed by Tahra O’Regan Another look at PaperGirl around the world. One of my pieces went off into the night with this merry band of revelers!! Love that this is in black & white, great job Tahra!

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PaperGirl Around the World

November 1, 2010

This has been an excellent year for giving away art. Just ask any PaperGirl event around the globe!! From Argentina to San Paulo and many places in between, artists and the public have been inspired, excited and affected by this unique art project. PaperGirl started 5 years ago in Berlin. Art is submitted from anyone, [...]

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PaperGirl SanFrancisco

September 16, 2010

Whew!! Life has been busy!! Latest submission to PaperGirl goes out today. This one is a 2 color (silver & magenta) print on 80# Speckletone Kraft paper. (2/111) If ya can’t get enough, here’s the fkp Facebook page for more, more, more!!

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New submissions to PaperGirl 2010

August 30, 2010

PaperGirl-NY concludes this weekend at The Marketplace Gallery in Albany, then the art will be distributed in the streets of Albany and NYC FOR FREE! I am so enamored with the whole idea behind this that I’m now a regular contributor!! In fact, 2 new pieces are going out today to PaperGirl Manchester UK and [...]

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Hysterical Design Humor

August 27, 2010

I couldn’t resist. A friend forwarded this to me and I have not laughed this hard in I can’t tell you how long!! It’s long but it’s worth it!! Enjoy!!! Hilarious mail exchange between a secretary and a graphic designer that work in the same company. From: Shannon Walkley Date: Monday 21 June 2010 9.15am [...]

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fkp and the Mail Art Project

August 17, 2010

Photos Enclosed: NYC A Collaborative Mail Art Project In the spring of 2009, Beacon NY photographer Stacey Ward Kelly took a series of digital photographs of New York City and sent a selection of these images to artists asking them to use her work to create a piece of mail art. Twenty-three artists participated by [...]

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fkp participates in PaperGirlNY 2010

July 30, 2010

I don’t know if anyone but spammers ‘read’ this blog or who I’m really talking to but, whatever, who cares. I’m having fun. So, what a cool art project. Free art given away in the streets. No submission fees and everyone is welcome to submit. I like that kind of spirit, no exclusions. Because what [...]

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Layers Magazine Design Makeover

June 17, 2010

I am happy to have been a part of Layers Magazine’s most recent issue. I was one of 3 designers selected to rework a book cover for the magazine’s Design Makeover column. The client was author Joseph Blondo, for his book, Caught Between Cultures: A Story of Milton Wan and Viet Nam. Design Makeover writer [...]

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