Ardith Ibañez Nishii's Page

If you find yourself in the New York City area in the next few months... RUN, don't walk to the MOMA to check out the Tim Burton exhibit!



Thanks to MyModernMet, I had the opportunity to experience a private tour of this amazing retrospective with only a handful of members of the press. What a treat to get up close and leisurely examine over 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, maquettes, letters, and props from both film and non-film… Continue

First off, we have to thank My Modern Metropolis for inspiring us to look into bigcartel.com for our new online store! We were inspired by Alice's blog post on BYROGLYPHICS. We were completely blown away and decided to get off our butts and finally do something about our remaining inventory of first edition Barkada(ko) shirts. So far, we're LOVING… Continue

well, i finally did it. this past week i put in my notice at my job. i'm finally going to make that long overdue career change! i'm going to be my own boss and try to pursue my art... (what is "my art"? we will all soon find out!)



in the meantime, i'm going to help run the Mally Beauty website on a part-time basis. gotta pay those billz, billz, billz! fortunately, it will be more than just a job. mally, herself, is amazing and inspirational!… Continue

so B and i are having a serious practice run of what it's like to have little kids. my sister-in-law and her husband are in barcelona until sunday. this is their FIRST trip without the kids in FOUR years!



so we're looking after Elise and Issei aka Hana-chan and Beamy. Hana-chan is 4 and Beamy is 16 months... they are SO cute. but BOY is it challenging to juggle meals, changing, car seats, school time, play time, bath time, bed time AND dealing with 16-hour work days to launch a web… Continue