Notations of Enthusiasm - Issue 074

We Help You Create Spaces with Soul.

Your space should speak to you and about you.

We make that happen through honest materials and experienced craftsmanship. We provide you with the architectural details and furniture that adds that little bit of special to your space.



Some Inspiration for Your Afternoon:

  • 100 ways to slightly improve your life… theguardian.com

  • An intimate look into the last decades of the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo. You really should check this out… 1972/accumulations

  • Bold and dramatic outside while being quiet and sophisticated inside… House in Xalapa

  • There is a newly redesigned terminal at Charles de Gaulle airport and it is stunningly French… With Love from Paris

  • Geodesic domes generally bore me, but this article started to change my mind… a Little Bucky Love

  • Legit desert modernism (I didn’t even know that was a thing)… Desert Palisades

  • Who doesn’t love a good church conversion?… Faith in Melbourne


The Grind of the Creative Process

At its heart creativity is a process; a never-ending, invigorating and heart-breaking process. Creativity has many starts, stops, and pivots. This is exactly why we are passionate about it; for ourselves and for others. It is not reserved for only the artist, designer or craftsperson; everyone has the need and ability to be creative in their own unique practice; to fully engage their mind and body in an act of making. In this post I wanted to share my personal view the creative process. I hope anyone that creates can relate to this process, even if it is not exactly their own. I usually go through roughly four stages of development as I am creating. I believe these stages occur in a “macro” sense over the course of a lifetime, and in a “micro” sense throughout a project or even a single day. I cycle through these stages repeatedly, one round building on the last. It becomes the rhythm of my creative process.

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Have a Great Weekend.

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