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This is Vanessa's personal tumblrzine, for family and friends everywhere. I like all sorts of stuff, and I like to share.

If you'd like to see my work work, skip on over to www.vanessaholden.com.

In my real life you can find me at vanessaholden[at]mac[dot]com; in studios and meetings & offices quite (but not too) often; most happily at the beach; at Pearl Paint buying stuff for a project; at La Colombe or The Adore, & sometimes (just quietly) at Beard Papa, but then I don't like to talk about that particular addiction.

Oct 27
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Getting talented people to work together requires a working environment that nurtures trusting and respectful relationships and unleashes everyone’s creativity
Good People or Good Ideas? The Importance of the Working Environment (via danw) It’s exactly that complicated. Or not.
Oct 24
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Don’t miss: HSM3. Especially you, paperflowers, ‘cause it is g - to the - r- by the - e - round the -a - double the -t GREAT. Oof, and that Zeffie, oooof.
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” Art Direditor” - mmm … Deb made a funnee.
Art Direditor” - mmm … Deb made a funnee.
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So. There in t minus 2 hrs. Le squeeeeeeee!
So. There in t minus 2 hrs. Le squeeeeeeee!
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Thank you, Tom Kundig.
Thank you, Tom Kundig.
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Pinch me.

New York never ceases to provide woah moments of capital A-Awesomeness. The first time I attended the ASMEs I couldn’t believe I was a) at the Waldorf Astoria dahling, b) in the same room as Graydon Carter, Helen Freakin’ Gurley Brown, Martha Stewart and c) hello, Ms Wintour. I could go on (and on). But tonight, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards Took The Cake: The Vignellis! Michael Bierut (yay Michael - he won the Design Mind Award)! Luke Hayman (who reminded me I owe him a beer - or 6) Cameron Sinclair (he founded Architecture for Humanity - jeezy!)! Scott Stowell (yes, of GOOD magazine, and the rest)! Tom Kundig (I covet every one of his buildings)! Karim Rashid! Sigi and Masamichi of Antenna Design - perfection. And beautiful, humble, extraordinary Charles Harrison, the designer of the Viewmaster, along with hundreds of other household products for Sears over his three decades there as an industrial designer. So great to run into Jeremy too, whose building, from the prefab exhibit at MOMA, is being thrown away (!?). But most, most amazed/impressed/inspired by the OLIN partnership win for Landscape Design - when you look at the scope of their work, and the impact it makes on so many many peoples lives in especially urban spaces (ever visited Columbus Circle? Battery Park? Bryant Park? You can thank them for the experience): so inspiring. I’ll have this design-dork grin on my face for more than a bit. Ay. Yi. A colleague said “Look at you, all starstruck” - yeah, I am, and hope I always will be:  I think it’s too easy to not be amazed and thrilled by the people you meet and the situations you find yourself in here. Pinch me.Then again, give me a minute to just enjoy this.
Oct 23
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Declan (like every kid I know) is voting for Obama. Wyatt, not so much.
Oct 21
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Joan in Mad Men. Gwen Verdon in “Damn Yankees”. Thanks to Fosse. Yes, Spesh, I’m thinking about you.
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Genius! CopyPasteCharacter (tks!)
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Carolyn is doing a lot of cool stuff out of her store. And walking the talk. I’m I’vegotalittlesmileonmyfacejustthinkingabouther proud.
Carolyn is doing a lot of cool stuff out of her store. And walking the talk. I’m I’vegotalittlesmileonmyfacejustthinkingabouther proud.