There’s a donut shop in my hometown with the perfect name: Lady Glaze. Doesn’t that just make you want to see what’s happening inside? I can confirm, from personal experience, that delicious things are happening inside!
I snapped a photo recently while I was out and about and thought it would make a fun paper cutting project. Here’s a peek of what you might see if you walked by one afternoon:
Working on this little sketch got me thinking about names: perfect names, the things we get to name, the things we’d name differently if it were up to us.
It’s a tricky business, don’t you think? I feel like I’m naming things all the time: journal pages and posts, new ideas, pitches and presentations. It can make all the difference in how something I’ve made is received and perceived. I don’t always get it right and it never gets any easier. But there’s something so wonderful about the perfect name; one that just rolls off the tongue, evokes a deep emotion, or creates an instant image of what to expect. And then there are the names of the people and places we adore; how the mention of their names brightens our days. Anyway, before I knew it, there was a new journal page humming its way through my printer. A quick and colourful reason to spend a few moments thinking thoughts about names.
If you’d like dive into the meaningful names in your world, click here or on the image above to download this page.
P.S. The PDF file includes two page sizes: letter and A4.
P.P.S. If you’d like to see the paper cutting project above from beginning to end, here’s the video I made: