Feeling merry
Friday, December 21st, 2012 Posted in Art, Craft | No Comments »After the cotton, comes Christmas. From a series of weekend Polaroids... I made this one on a recent, chilly morning in Mississippi. Best wishes for the season! - Sandy Lang, December 2012
Greetings, Proletariat
Friday, August 27th, 2010 Posted in Art, Craft, In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »To help recognize the growing creative force in Charleston - now said to be 27,000+ strong - I've been working on a campaign with STITCH Design Co. and Parliament. We've had fun with this. The first round of print pieces were ...
A year of STITCH
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 Posted in Art, Craft, In print/published | No Comments »Happy Anniversary! Last summer, graphic designers Courtney Rowson and Amy Pastre opened STITCH, a terrific design firm in downtown Charleston. They recently asked me to write copy for their new, great-looking website. Check it out... the site's professional, beautiful and ...
Found art
Saturday, June 5th, 2010 Posted in Art, Craft, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »A summer visit to John Duckworth's studio... There’d been a ruckus in the yard that morning, John Duckworth said when I drove up. A neighbor's dog had carried off one of his flock of young chickens and feathers flew, ...
Art, dresses, beer in Asheville
Saturday, May 15th, 2010 Posted in Art, Craft, Travel | No Comments »I've got a new travel feature in this month's Charleston Magazine, May 2010. For the magazine's annual arts issue, photographer Peter Frank Edwards and I went to Asheville, NC and met some of artists, crafters and designers there. Below are ...
The art of the letterpress
Thursday, December 17th, 2009 Posted in Art, Craft, In print/published | No Comments »Presses stop me. When I worked at a newspaper, on breaks I used to go down to the press room and watch the huge rolls whir through. My favorite is the sights and sounds of letterpressing - the hands-on ...
Inshow-o-rama: check it out
Friday, September 11th, 2009 Posted in Art, Craft, In print/published | No Comments »Since mid-summer, I've been collaborating on a project with Stitch Design Co., and the first pieces are now in print and online. The materials are for the 2009 InShow, the AIGA of South Carolina's annual design awards. The website is ...
STITCH gets rolling
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Art, Craft, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »What a nice project... I've been writing copy for a couple of graphic designer friends who are known for the textures and handcrafted details in their work. Amy Pastre and Courtney Rowson have just formed STITCH, a design company with ...
“Cypress” is a beauty
Sunday, June 14th, 2009 Posted in Art, Craft, In print/published | No Comments »This is so cool… an article I wrote last year for Garden & Gun was read by a filmmaker who says he was inspired to create a short film. On Friday I had the chance to talk with Tim Sutton, who's ...
Guerrilla Bite
Saturday, May 30th, 2009 Posted in Art, Craft, Food, In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »Back on the covert dining beat, I wrote this Quick Bite feature for the May 2009 Charleston Magazine, the arts issue with the Shepard Fairey cover. I'm a fan of street art and underground supper clubs, so it was a ...
“Winter South” bookplates
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 Posted in Art, Craft, In print/published, Literary | 1 Comment »I am captivated by this time of year... the marsh grass is golden in clear evening light, bare branches of pecan trees stretch into the sky, flocks of red-winged blackbirds swirl over farm fields. There are indelible scenes everywhere. It's ...
“I ain’t old no more.”
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Posted in Art, Craft, Literary, People, Travel | 1 Comment »The music never seems to stop in Clarksdale, Mississippi. One morning there earlier this year, the first person we met on Delta Avenue was bluesman T-Model Ford, who was sitting in a folding chair eating eggs and toast from a ...