Newberg, Oregon (USA)

Darryl Brown is the designer of Geez magazine, as well as a talented image maker (illustration and photography). In his words… “Unhappy with working for businesses I did not feel good about supporting, I recently quit a good design job to work in higher education (he’s now the art director at George Fox University). I gave up some income, but also traded a two-hour (round-trip) commute for a short bike ride to work every morning. More importantly, I do work I believe in.” Check out Darryl’s new blog for inspiring examples of visual creativity—here.

Thanks to Aiden Enns for the heads-up (Aiden credits me with “introducing him to the concept of wabi sabi” some years ago, for which Darryl offers this definition here: “Wabi sabi is an intuitive appreciation of transient beauty in the physical world that reflects the irreversible flow of life in the spiritual world. It is an understated beauty that exists in the modest, rustic, imperfect, or even decayed, an aesthetic sensibility that finds a melancholic beauty in the impermanence of all things.”

All images © Darryl Brown: R is for rust; Baseball ll, blog header from darryldesigns.