Blüm is my personal studio where I tinker and make things.

I’ve always loved paper–its texture, patience, the way it can become almost anything in the right hands.

I craft flowers, branches, and foliage from hand-dyed crepe paper, shaping each piece with wire, floral tape, and layers of watercolor, pastel, and acrylic paint. It’s a slow, lovely process – part craft, part alchemy – and one that keeps me endlessly inspired by the natural world.

Mushrooms shaped from a variety of papers, paper and polymer clays, fibers, watercolors, pastel, acrylic paints, and foraged barks

Over the years, I had the privilege of creating album covers and packaging for Concord Records here and there on a freelance basis. The work gave me the chance to listen to incredible musicians and deepened my lifelong love of jazz.

For Brad Barton, the “Reality Thief”, I wanted the identity to feel equal parts charm and uncanny. Playful but polished. The palette leans into twilight tones, capturing that moment when reality tilts a little.

Bold, theatrical type keeps things dramatic, while the modified question mark, a visual “glitch” nods to sleight-of-hand and the sense of something just out of sight. The system flexes easily across formats—from stage projection to the back of a playing card or post-it note—so Barton always feels unmistakably Barton, no matter the setting.