Posts by Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met, Manager of My Modern Met Store, and co-host of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled "Embroidered Life" that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.
Dogs
March 25, 2026

Corgi Leads a Pack of 7 Dogs on a 10-Mile Journey To Make It Back Home

One canine quest sounds like something from a movie. A group of seven dogs in China went missing but miraculously found their way home, traveling more than 17 kilometers (about 10 miles) to reunite with their humans. The leader of this pack—which featured a golden retriever, labrador, German shepherd, and Pekinese—was a commanding corgi identified as Dapang, or “big fatty.

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Furniture
March 24, 2026

This “Pixelated” Furniture Will Make You Feel Like You’re Living in Tetris or Minecraft

Pixels are intangible. They are the building blocks of the images we see on a screen. But no matter how realistic those images look, we can’t interact with them like we would a three-dimensional item. Spatial designer Ceren Arslan, founder of the design studio EXIT, is changing that with the launch of her furniture collection called Pixel Theory. Pixel Theory sees the picture-element (the long name for pixel) as a starting point for the collection.

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