JHill at the Boston Design Salon

On February 16, Jennifer Hill participated in the Boston Design Salon's meet and greet + q&a session hosted by the World Affairs Council. With the help of WorldBoston, women from 22 countries mingled and discussed entrepreneurship and the best practices for innovation and development.

To join-in events like this, check out The Design Salon!

VINTAGE JET-SETTING

JHill's office manager Lizzie, recently found these old family photos of her grandmother traveling somewhere in the UK. How fabulous do they look, huh?

SPRING STUDIO SALE!

It's almost Spring... right? Thought we'd get a head start on our organizing and cleaning. So, yup! We + Jill Rosenwald are having a studio sale on Friday and Saturday. There's lots to see. Hope you can make it (otherwise visit online for deals. CLICK here)!

AFRICA AND PARIS BY ICOEYE

Love this clever design! Spotted on Design*Sponge, made by icoeye.

LEADVILLE, COLORADO'S CRYSTAL PALACE

We've heard Colorado is one of those places you visit and never come back from. It could be the breathtaking landscapes, but it sounds like Coloradans have their own intrigue. Take this story for example, used in our "A Toast to Colorado" print.

In 1895, the town of Leadville was struggling financially and in order to attract more tourists, townspeople proposed this:

The Crystal Palace, only took thirty-six days to build. Made solely of ice and housing a skating rink, restaurant, ball room, theater, carousel, gaming rooms and toboggan, Leadville's Crystal Palace brought in 250,000 visitors in the sole winter it lived.

It must have taken some very cool people to follow through with that idea, right? (pun definitely intended).

See JHill's homage to Colorado's Crystal Palace here!

JHILL BLAST FROM THE PAST: VANCOUVER

In honor of the 2010 Olympics, we thought we would share this oldie but goodie, circa 2007, from deep inside the JHill vault:

Sorry guys, this print has been retired and is no longer available.

Happy Winter Games!

"A Toast to... Thailand!"

Since we researched Thailand's history for our new "A Toast to... Thailand" print, we have not been able to get this story out of our daydreaming heads... In the temple of Wat Traimit sits a 13th century golden Buddha. The icon weighs over 5 tons, is 10 feet tall and worth somewhere around $13 million dollars. Disguised for centuries, its solid gold body was wrapped in plaster to keep its value a mystery to enemies and invaders. The true wonderment was not revealed until until 1957, when the Buddha was cracked during transport to a temple in Bangkok. Read more here!

Can you imagine discovering something so grand? And how ironic, when covered in painted plaster, it was deemed an "unattractive" artifact. Until we can pay tribute in person, here's our ode to the world's biggest gold statue:

Studio K Maps!

Making them, hanging them, reading them... we love maps! Check out the beautiful art from Karen O'Leary of Studio K:

Of course, the hand cut (holy smokes, what patience!) Boston map really caught our eye:

Based in Charlotte, NC Studio K also turned out this incredible pen and paper series (beloved Boston, shown again!):

AND! Studio K takes custom orders. Find more right here!