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Poster Poster
Thanks to Poster Poster for featuring the ReImagine poster I created for the Americas Latino Eco Festival on Poster Monday yesterday. Fresh type design by Lulubi Garcia. Seemed like a good time to look back at some of the other posters I've created over the years for...
Librarians take over Vegas!
!Viva Las Vegas and Books! I've always been drawn to unusual juxtapositions and this past weekend 13,000 librarians, authors, illustrators, publishers, agents, teachers and book fans descended on Vegas for the ALA Convention. Here's some photos to document the...
New Posters for Americas Latino Eco Festival
I was asked to conceptualize and design this series of four posters for the Americas Latino Eco Festival September 11-15, 2014 in Boulder Colorado. I teamed up with a talented young Latina designer and 2014 graphic design graduate of San Diego City College Lulubi...
New Paintings on their way to Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital
I've just completed three 30 by 40 inch paintings for Yale-New Haven Hospital. This facility for children gives as much attention to a child's emotional needs as they do for caring for their illness. Kids are nurtured in a place designed especially to care for them in...
Visit with Frida
My son Santiago had one request for his birthday. A visit to Frida's blue house in Coyoacán. We stayed in Roma, ate pastries, drank coffee and Mexican hot chocolate.
Tito Puente Mambo King Wins Pura Belpré Honor from the American Library Association
Sunday started with a boat ride to Coronado Island with my son Shorts and iced coffee on a January morning in San Diego Sunday morning started with the ferry to Coronado Island for a bike ride with my son. I returned home to a call from Ruth Tobar the chair of the...