How Minimalism Saved My Life / Formerly *The Field Blog*
As of today, I’ve changed the name of this blog. It is no longer strictly about my fieldwork. In honor of my life taking on a new path, I...
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LP Platow
Jan 13, 20222 min read
2021: What can I say? Nobody *really* likes you, but here we are.
You will be hard-pressed to find a single person that will claim that 2021 was normal - f*ck, it was not - but I will not define it by...
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LP Platow
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Cheers to you, Eric Lindsay.
Enjoy the music that accompanies this grainy little video of the extraordinary lifetimes Eric and I lived together. Eric's gallery,...
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LP Platow
May 26, 20202 min read
Shutting down mask production.
Here we are, almost on another side of a new normal. As lockdown restrictions ease everywhere, the mask rush seems to be under control....
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LP Platow
Apr 13, 20201 min read
From #rovingbee to #sewingbee ?
What happens when you're forced to stop all travel due to a global pandemic? You get into the studio and use your sewing machine for...
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LP Platow
Jan 1, 20203 min read
2020 Update: Our Progress and the Road Ahead
It’s January 2020. A very appropriate time for an update on where we stand in our efforts to bring you a better Skipti. Skipti launched...
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LP Platow
Oct 15, 20193 min read
Stay sharp.
Skipti has been keeping me busy. This little brand that was only an idea for so long has launched in August of this year and - needless...
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LP Platow
Apr 15, 20191 min read
Notre Dame is on my mind.
Albuquerque, New Mexico // lI'm in the middle of mocking up a beautiful collateral set for a client, and I hear that Notre Dame is on...
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LP Platow
Jan 26, 20191 min read
Waiting out the Polar Vortex in Florida
Ybor City, Florida // When your best friend asks you to be the best man in his wedding, you say yes. And when you’re a designer you make...
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LP Platow
Jan 8, 20192 min read
Project Provenance and the Met
New York, New York // Today I’m at the Met. I’m sitting on a bench in the 19th and Early 20th Century European Paintings and Sculpture...
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LP Platow
Dec 18, 20181 min read
Client Gifts and Team Appreciation
Albuquerque, New Mexico // Project: Personalized Corporate Gift Client: SolaeroTechnologies "It's a spirit five times distilled, the...
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LP Platow
Dec 17, 20182 min read
Is today the day to blog?
Albuquerque, New Mexico // It just might be. Oh social media. I wish you hadn't been born. Is that too George Bailey of me to say? 'Tis...
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LP Platow
Dec 6, 20182 min read
Christmas in Colorado (in early December)
Durango, Colorado // I’m in Durango Colorado this week to show my niece and her bestie what Christmas feels like in the Southwest. Just...
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LP Platow
Sep 21, 20181 min read
All the King's Horses
Albuquerque, New Mexico // Sometimes you just have to sit down and write a Thank You note. It's simple etiquette. Moreover, you have to...
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LP Platow
Jul 25, 20181 min read
The Bear Desk
// Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico Project: The Bear Desk A year ago I came face to face (ten feet away!) with an incredible grizzly...
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LP Platow
Feb 16, 20182 min read
Farewell Tangerine.
New York, New York // This photo was taken with a 'really good' digital camera back in the early 2000s. I needed natural light and a...
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LP Platow
Jan 4, 20181 min read
The first time
New York, New York // Designers. Do you remember the first time you saw your designs in the wild? For me, it was Target and these...
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LP Platow
Oct 12, 20151 min read
Fight like a girl, Lydia!
The Major Crime Scene Team at the Albuquerque Police Department is extending their investigation in the hopes to find a cure for breast...
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