2020 Advent Calendar [15] – Jennifer Kellett

December 15, 2020

Jennifer Kellett is another British artist beautifully mixing nature and abstract, patterns and colors. Instagram here, website here. If you’re looking for Greeting Cards (you find them here), you might want to take a look at the Snow Dog, one of my favorite, the Mouse Dream or the Stately Bear. When I’m writing, both the Post Box and the Robin cards are sold out, but maybe they’ll come back by the time I publish this.

I warned you I would try and do a sort of Advent Calendar recommending you an indipendent artist and illustrator each day till Christmas: I’m not making any promises, let’s see if I can keep this up.

architecture, engineering and construction

DIS/ISO 19650-1:2026 — New Concepts

Last week I tried to map the current ISO 19650-1:2018 with the concepts as they’re now laid out in the DIS/ISO 19650-1:2026, in public consultation until June 2nd. I hope if was helpful to all those who were feeling lost, but the changes aren’t the

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music and theatre

Suzanne Vega in Milan

Yesterday, we went to see Suzanne Vega, one of the greatest artists and musicians of all times whom occupies a special place in my heart next to Tori Amos. It was a packed house at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi here in Milan, with people belonging to

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books and literature

Isaac Asimov’s Gold (and other stories)

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