Early in my art & design career things did not go very well (not a very unique story line, I know). I graduated art school in 2008 (two strikes against me — art degree & 2008), got married, and moved immediately to Washington, DC to find a job (arguably a third strike — the DC part, not the marriage part). After hundreds of applications for jobs that I never heard a single response back from (I still have that “rejected” folder in my Gmail account #nostalgia) I started my coffee career! Newly married, new city, making coffee, wife in a...

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Since the beginning of Anatomy of Everything I saw great potential for what this concept could become. I get nauseous thinking about all of the creative directions this project can go (my other side project is perfecting cloning so I can pursue each of these directions). Here at the starting line of AofE it is a very difficult process to decide what object to illustrate! I want to cover an impossible amount of ground, not only to be inclusive of all varieties of people, but because I'm a self-proclaimed Generalist and come from a long lineage of Generalists. I am...

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Welcome to the AofE blog! This is our very first blog post, so cut us some slack. Everyone loves a good origin story (just look at all of these Hollywood comic book movies). So let me tell you a little about who we are and what we're doing. My name is Matthew, I am an artist and coffee professional. After graduating from art school, I got married and moved to DC and tried to "make it" as an artist. About 4 years into the grind my wife and I moved to Rwanda. She got a job with a non-profit healthcare...

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