Category Archives: Journal

New Friends at Santa Monica Pier

Journal, TravelBy lizdegenphoto April 30, 2018 1 Comment

I spend most of my life waiting for the perfect time to make things happen. That perfect moment rarely exists as a time in the future, but is almost always NOW. Last month I hopped on a plane to LAX with a dream and an extremely blank itinerary. One night while attempting (and failing) to…

Poppy’s Wish of a Lifetime

Events, JournalBy lizdegenphoto September 20, 2017 Leave a comment

Last Friday was pretty darn special. My grandfather (aka Poppy) won a trip to New York through an incredible organization called Wish of a Lifetime through Brookdale Senior Living. He got to tour Woodside Press in Brooklyn and use one of the last remaining functional Linotype machines in the U.S. As a graphic designer, the work that was…