The Blog
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Behind the Design: Endangered Coral Reefs
One design that we’ve chosen to print on our line of upcycled clothing, is of a piece of coral with the words, “Let Me Live”. This graphic carries a very important message that we’d love to discuss here, and share the inspiration behind creating it. Living close to the ocean has given us daily appreciation…
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Raising and Hatching Bantam Chickens
We have many goals to become more self-sustainable by producing instead of consuming. One way to do that is have a flock of yard birds that are producing daily eggs. Bantam chickens are smaller versions of standard chickens, and come in a variety of breeds – just miniature! They are about 1/5 to 1/4 the…
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Learning to “See” in a Figure Drawing Class
Last week we were delighted to attend a figure drawing class with a live model, hosted by the talented artist Susan Adams who is based here in Costa Rica, as well. It was a small and intimate gathering of creatives with different life drawing experience levels who came together for the relaxed two-hour class. Held…
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Minimalism : In Design + Lifestyle
If we had to choose the most powerful principal to live by both in our lifestyle and design style, we would have to say Minimalism. In a world crowded with thoughts, sales, news, promos, (exasperated gasp…) opinions, photos, advice and an overabundance of unnecessary material goods – it is easy to drown in the noise, and lose…
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Rio Celeste : A Photo Blog
A couple weeks ago we took a road trip to Rio Celeste, the river and waterfall known for its surreal blue color. Rio Celeste is not far from Liberia airport, heading towards Arenal Volcano, in the Tenorio National Park. Most of the drive is on paved roads except for the last stretch after reaching the park…
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Super Healthy Tropical Smoothies: Part I
One of the best things about living in the tropics is the abundance of fresh, local fruit. I had never tried many of the local tropical fruit before moving here, and now I can’t imagine life without these sweet, exotic and best of all – HEALTHY! – treats. Costa Rica is a hot spot for…
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Top 5 Reasons Central America is your Post-Election Escape Spot
If you live in the U.S and are as worried about this next election as we are, you’ve probably already started to consider where to move in 2017. With serious issues like health care, education, women’s rights and religious freedoms at stake, this election could really effect life as you know it in the good…
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Camping on a Volcanic Island In Nicaragua
So we decided to take a little trip to Nicaragua. Actually an island in the middle of Lake Nicaragua called Ometepe. It was formed by two volcanoes rising from the center of the lake. The lake itself is the largest in all of Central America and drains into the Caribbean Sea via the San Juan River.…
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Sea Life Illustrations
Nomad Design House prides itself on having a fine art background, and incorporating a hand-drawn feel into our digital designs. Trever’s love for diving and fishing inspired him to start a collection of illustrations he calls his Sea Life Series. Very often our creative process starts with inspiration from the natural world, and this is a great example…
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Travels in the Caribbean
The Nomad team was fortunate enough to take a little road trip to the Caribbean side of Costa Rica recently to explore this coast. Although this wasn’t our first time here, we were shocked by the change in climate, wildlife, culture, and flavor. Our home base here in the Guanacaste is a predictable sunny, dry…
