I think it’s safe to assume that many friends and family of Sundance Channel and SUNfiltered are addicted to the delightful taste and the ritual of drinking coffee. As a sanity check, I myself recently downsized to a one cup per diem regiment. The whole eye-twitching from drinking too much coffee might have also had something to do with this. Anyway, as a coffee lover, I greatly enjoyed and related to popular artist Christoph Niemann’s illustrated tale of his complicated relationship with coffee from his youth to his adulthood that he published on his New York Times blog. It’s a must read for any city dwelling coffee addict.

My pal, the talented illustrator Steven Guarnaccia, has a new book out. The Three Little Pigs is an illustrated fable about, you guessed it, three little pigs. But, being Steven, these aren’t just any pigs. They’re Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry, the three most famous modern architects.

The architects, um, I mean, pigs, do everything they can to keep their houses of glass and steal from being blown away. It is a charming tale, with fantastic illustrations, obviously, as Steven is the chair Parsons’ Illustration department. The book is a perfect way to teach kids about design and it’s also perfect for all those mid-century modern obsessed adults out there too.

Richard Haines’ blog What I Saw Today takes streetstyle for a spin. There are no photos of the well-dressed gents he sees on the street, only sketches, a fitting combination of Haines’ background in both fashion and illustration.

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