The view out of her window

Lilla will be speaking on Trend and Influences in Surface Design at the Instituto Europeo di Design.

She sent us this picture of the Instituto.

Lilla is in Spain this week and will be sending in pictures of interesting sights from her travels.

Here is the view from her hotel balcony and a snapshot of a manhole cover.

Wedneday: Map of Marco’s family trip to Cuba.

These are painting in my studio that I’ve done over the years. The one on the blue wall, on the left, was done in 1994 when I was pregnant with my son. And the one on the right was done this year.

Friday: Personal piece by Janell Genovese

Can you find three of my paintings?
Here are a few shots I took of things in my house.

Monday: A personal piece by Diane Bigda.

In my house, we celebrate Christmas trees and Hanukkah and Buddhism. I like to celebrate the fun of all holidays. Every year I make some gumdrop balls with my glue gun and out of that came this collection. It’s addicting to make these. I recommend it if you’re looking for an easy craft project. Cheap, too. You can get the gumdrops and even some vintage-style candy at the drug store. Just don’t store them in the attic; they will melt. Otherwise, they last for years.

Monday: More great cards by Suzy Ultman

I did this with an exacto knife and Pantone colored films many years ago. Can you believe it? No Photoshop yet. See the airbubbles? Ha ha. Oh well.

Happy Hannukah! (There is no one way to spell Chanukah, fyi.)

Tomorrow: Susy’s collection of holiday nature like you’ve never seen. Really.

We’re so excited to exhibit at Printsource NY in January. And look what they are sending around, with our very own Carolyn Gavin of Ecojot as the featured artist on their announcement. Can you visit us? We’re taking appointments from art directors. Contact us to schedule an appointment to see work at the show. (Sorry, we can’t make appointments with artists even though we’d love to meet you. We’ll be so dang busy we really can’t view portfolios at the show.)

Tomorrow: Jessica Allen’s new birthday card.

Kitty does these cool interviews with creative people and I was honored that she interviewed me recently. Read more here.

Here’s a piece of the interview:

Q: Artists… how do you choose new artists that you’d like to represent?

Lilla: We get about 1,000/year from all over the world.
1. We must LOVE the work.
2. We must feel that we can get lots of work for the artist. We usually know right away which clients of ours will love the work. But it’s always a gamble.
3. We must feel that the artist is stable, professional, and knows what an agent will do for them.
4. I must see great, enormous talent and genius. Not a one-trick pony, but a bounty of talent. Years of teaching and doing this helps me assess.

Jill Rosenwald sent me the following that I want to share with Boston-area folks:

hello design salonistas!
welcome to licensing 101!
on october 14th we are having our salon night focusing on the crazy world of licensing.

our panel that night includes LILLA ROGERS ( www.lillarogers.com) who owns an agency that places artists and their work at some of america’s biggest companies, LISA DE JOHN the painter/illustrator of the famed IKEA print (check out her site..www.lisadejohn.com) you may recognize the work), and petite moi..your friend jill rosenwald..(www.jillrosenwald.com) a licensed designer for the past 4 years..my work is today placed at anthropologie, starbucks, pottery barn, and crate and barrel among others.

we will be talking that night about our experiences but we would like YOUR help.

please submit your questions to us via mcrae2@aol.com and we will structure our talk around what you want to know!

thanks for your help on this one..and oh we will be having the event at kate maloney’s fabulous design space in cambridge at 875 main street..details to follow.
But we do need an rsvp here..as kate’s space only has room for 25 peeps..so let me know.

tata fa na
xo
jill