RedRedCircle

Business Development through Design™

To inform. To promote. Perhaps to inspire.™

Inspire the Construction Workers

Mar 15, 2010 | Discoveries, Featured Articles, Journal, Photo of the Day, Photos

JUST as they were on a crane removing this billboard ad for high-fashion lingerie, I was walking by with my camera and had mere moments to shoot. What will they put up next to keep the construction...

Oranges for a Lifetime

Mar 14, 2010 | Featured Articles, Food!, Graphics, Journal, Photo of the Day, Photos, Shopping & Markets

Yesterday morning I went to the local Saturday market on a mission: gather as many different citrus tissue wrappers as I could find. From each stall that had some of the paper-wrapped fruit, I...

Pasta. We’re Not Talkin’ Noodles

Mar 12, 2010 | Discoveries, Featured Articles, Journal, Photo of the Day, Photos

Milano is a fabulous place to do a "design intensive" exploration, and I've stepped up my voracious visual consumption of the rich details around me. What a place to study typography, graphics,...

!@*#!! It’s Snowing!

Mar 9, 2010 | Introspection, Quips

It's March. It's 3:00 in the afternoon and it's snowing. Crap. I'm so ready for the Springtime that Seattle is having right now! Enough of this COLD! My Seattle neighbors called the other day to...

Where are the eggs?

Mar 8, 2010 | Discoveries, Food!, Journal, Shopping & Markets

"Excuse me. Where are the eggs?" On my first grocery shopping trip last June, I searched all over the refrigerator section of the store to find the eggs. Where were they?! I finally asked, and was...

Out with The Girls

Mar 8, 2010 | Introspection, Journal, People, Photos

It's been great fun to get to know the group of women from the schools here. Now and then, when a few of us are available, we'll go out for aperitivi. Here, from left to right, are: Keryn, from...

Frette – Damask Dreams

Mar 8, 2010 | Discoveries, Featured Articles, Graphics, Journal, Photos

When I rounded the corner and saw the wall of red and cream damask patterns, I skipped both a breath and a heart beat. These are the textiles I came for. These are the fabrics I prowl and lurk...

Snow?

Mar 5, 2010 | Introspection, Journal, Quips

Snow predicted for Sunday? They've got to be kidding. Please tell me they're kidding. With a predicted low of 32 degrees and a high of 37, snow is certainly possible. In the meantime, my neighbors...

Going German

Mar 5, 2010 | Food!, Introspection, Journal, Meals

I harkened back to my German roots today and cooked sausage in a kraut of red cabbage, beets and onions. I could post a photo, but it really is just a mass of purple-brown and doesn't look like...