I’ve found myself doing a lot of personal photo restoration lately. I’m not sure if I’m feeling nostalgic or if I’m simply a perfectionist that can’t stand to print or archive photos without first “fixing” them. I’m not sure it matters – eventually I’ll run out time – between my family photos, my husband’s family photos, and family photos for friends and extended family I’ll simply have to learn to leave some of them ... Read More

Happy Valentine’s Day from Dilemma Studio! In honor of Valentine’s Day 2011 enjoy this (slightly) embellished contour line drawing of ... Read More

It really pains me to share this with you; the limited run of 100 screen prints of this poster didn’t turn out. As you can see above, the green that was printed is TREMENDOUSLY different than the green in my original illustration (Scroll down to see the original illustration). For that (and a few other reasons) these posters will not be up for sale now or ever. The prints are simply not up to my standards. That being said, I will commission another run of this illustration. Right now I’m thinking ... Read More

I had the chance to sit down and talk photography, design, & life with the super-talented photographer, Jaclyn Tyler. She had some fantastic fresh ideas about shooting the upcoming Harbor Athletic Club launch (starts tomorrow!) which I can’t wait to try out. Luckily she warned me to bring my camera to lunch (not something I’m good about remembering) so while she took pictures of our food, the restaurant, and yours truly, I was able to capture a very apt and adorable candid of her. Jaclyn and I also talked about a ... Read More

This past week has been one of the most unproductive of my career. Nothing catastrophic – just a lot of bad timing. Computer maintenance, working off-site, having to re-create lost files from the hard drive crash, and a usually-quite-helpful-husband out of town all seem to add up to a draining week with (pretty much) no real progress to speak of. I have to say though, the week was sort of lucky too. I mean, I have a laptop to work on (inefficient but so much better than not having it) and most of my files were easily accessible on ... Read More