![]() ![]() Our studio really does take on the type of work I have always wanted. Was it the 24/7 scrolling culture I was part of? Was it career overload and burnout? Was it the current toxic America I was in no way immune to?Īs a partner of a brand design studio that I co-run with my wife, I can truly say I love very much what we get to do for a living. ![]() Why was I evaluating my personal worth against my creative output? I couldn’t understand how I went from being a seemingly confident, self-employed designer of 10+ years to someone who began questioning literally every mark and every move I made. Several years ago, I found myself slowly beginning to doubt my own creative abilities, and honestly, doubt my own self- worth because of it. Maybe it’s not a new iPhone, but a gift nonetheless. Getting the opportunity to make something for someone and do so everyday for a living is a gift. I love the feeling of getting totally lost in the act of creating something that didn’t exist the day before. Truth be told, I have always felt the most at peace with myself when making something. Sunday Suns is the weekly project of American designer Tad Carpenter, who has taken on the simple task of designing, illustrating, sculpting, modelling, making, stitching or creating a sun every Sunday. It is half therapy and half visual journalism – a small way to inject our world with some much needed positivity and light. Each page is positive, uplifting, and entirely positive, proving that when we let our minds play, good things follow suit. In addition, the book offers an insight into his work process and the origins of this stunning project. The result is a book that showcases Tad’s designs, illustrations, sculptures, models, and stitchings representing a sun he freely created on a Sunday. So Tad Carpenter, the co-founder of Carpenter Collective, began an experiment titled Sunday Suns to play and create without guidelines. We can do whatever our minds wish, with no restrictions involved. I especially love the call-and-response style which encourages interaction and interest in early reading.There’s no denying that when we create with zero rules, we feel free. The glossiness is good for wiping off drool and other messes though! And the colors and illustrations are cheerfully appropriate and engaging for this age. Older siblings do not seem to have much difficulty with the changing flaps. Not to mention, they lift and flap in a variety of directions so it can be frustrating to little ones who expect them to go only one direction. (Of course I’ve seen my share of bitten, drool-soaked board books that have been attacked by teething babies so they are not impervious to damage either.) The lift-the-flaps are fun and entertaining but are vulnerable to unintended bends and folds that the pre-literate set tend to inflict on them. They are more like super glossy card-stock-thickness pages. The books are geared towards kids ages 0-3 (supposedly ideal for my six month old) but I have some worries they would not withstand the mistreatment of the extremely young, especially as the pages are not as thick as typical boardbooks. The reading level is much too easy for my six-year-old but she was clearly feeling helpful by entertaining her brother (who didn’t really care too much about the books as he was busily stuffing something else in his face) and it increased her self-confidence in her newly acquired reading skills. That was exactly what I hoped would happen when I left them sitting out. The reason I got these two board-like books for review was obvious when I found my six-year-old reading them aloud to my five-month-old.
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