Melanie Shaffer
Very sad news from Hartford. Our colleague who famously headed the Courant’s redesign has passed away.
About Me
I am an editor and designer who has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, writer and educator. I mix observations on the overlapping topics of design, culture and society, particularly in Connecticut. Or I just prattle on about life in general.
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Recent posts
- September solo show for Macella Kurowski at GBR
- “I’ve never done this before, Mr. Waters, but can I ask you to sign this?”
- Venü No. 3 is out and online
- The Latin art show isn’t just in Greenwich — and my own paper scooped me
- Great shots of the White Show; tonight, it’s Red
- Gay? Art? Gay art?
- What’s so weird?
- Bridgeport’s budget renaissance fair
- She said she’d become a writer, and she did
- Day trip! Take a bus to the Dia:Beacon
- “95 Artists” party marks summer exhibit’s end
- 10 years of Hygienic living
- Two sides of the forest inspired by life and death
- It’s a jungle on the Cape this time of year
- Take the 2 or the 3 line to Brooklyn
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