Sometimes you just stop, look up, and see "it."
Something happens when it’s quiet, you’re alone, and somehow you’ve veered from your intended path. You manage to find your way back eventually, but for the minute or hour or however long it is you lose all track of time.
This is discovery. This is reflection.
These are the times when you can just let go of the world and its pressures, and just be. Enjoy the details, enjoy the act of getting lost.
The image at left comes from one of those times. I was in Chicago, for the first time, for the jazz festival there. I also had a camera. Amidst the beautiful Louis Sullivan architecture I’d come to see here I found wrought iron twined so beautifully with organic adornment. It was comfort, closeness. A place for the eye could rest.
The photograph you’ll find on Row House Café’s business cards is another one that I’m really fond of. Like some of the ideas I discovered as part of the process of creating a brand identity for Row House Cafe, the feelings about what it means to be in a space comfortably had been incubating for a long time. The image for Row House’s business cards has been part of our own archive since 1995, and it still hits that similar note: comfort, and closeness.
That has to mean something. Having a history is part of Row House Cafe’s brand story.
