A week or so ago, I wrote a blog post that summarised the way we’d started thinking about Cape Town as World Design Capital 2014. In a nutshell, our WDC2014 manifesto of OWN IT, PAINT IT, WORK IT simply means that we need to take this year-long event by the horns ourselves. And that’s exactly …
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WDC2014: A big yellow DOT
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Teaching in Jaipur
I’ve been keeping something under my hat for a couple of months, dying to spill the beans, and now that everything’s in place, I’m so excited to to let you know about…. Yup, this October, I’ll be heading off to Jaipur in India to teach on a Ritchie Ace Camps 8-day block printing tour. …
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Illustration: Tokyo-inspired prints for Sketchbook Series
My sketchbooks are filled with drawings and ideas, many of which never become patterns or designs on fabric. Last year, I launched the Sketchbook Series of high-quality giclée prints, so that I could allow some of my sketches to see the light of day. After returning from Tokyo last year, I added three more prints …
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WDC2014: Own It, Paint it, Work it
I’m sure you know that Cape Town is has been named as World Design Capital in 2014. Hooray! All year long, there will be official projects and seminars and whatnot going on in the city (read about them here), and although Skinny laMinx isn’t involved in any of the official WDC2014 projects, we still want …
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Hot tip: Succulents are cool
I do like a good succulent plant, which must be why my studio roof garden is getting bigger, and also why my camera seems to be full of succulents pics.
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Cross Pollination: Take Care
2014 is the year that Cape Town has been named World Design Capital (did you see all the yellow in my shop window this month?). I’m hoping it will be a year where Cape Town’s design community comes together to support and encourage one another, while the Design world is focussed on our city. At Skinny laMinx, …
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Trend spotting: Hallelujah for Flamingos
On our visit to Tokyo last year, it was abundantly clear that flamingos were hot, hot property, trending like crayzee, and we’ve got the pics to show for it: Now, a couple of months later, the flamingos have followed us to Cape Town: I’m utterly smitten by the pink flamingo interior of brand new …
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Out & About: Shapes I like
Who’d have guessed that the SABS building in Rosebank would have such interesting shapes and colours for me to snap? By the way, if you like the shapes and colours in this post, you might enjoy a new Pinterest board I started recently, called Shapes I Like.
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WDC2014 shop window
All week I’ve had pots of yellow paint out and yellow brushes drying, as I prepped for my brand new shop window, and today I put all the bits together. The yellow circle, of course, is to celebrate that Cape Town is this year’s World Design Capital. Looking forward to seeing what the year 2014 …
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