This is me, just days before my birthday last week, big grin on my face as I take a selfie in a double-lane pedestrian crossing, freshly painted with a giant daisy pattern … designed by me! 🌼 What a way to turn 55! 🌼 This daisy-covered double road is the brand new intersection of St …
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Walking on Daisies
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Have you seen this dog?
Have you seen this dog? Don’t worry, he’s not lost. You’ll find him on the brand new Dog Park tea towel, along with all the other cut paper dogs that I’ve been making while trying to decide whether or not to get a dog of my own. If you love the cut paper version, you can …
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Slingsby laMinx?
No, that is not a misprint. My favourite mug at work does say “Slingsby laMinx”, and here’s the reason why. A squillion years ago, pre-Skinny laMinx, I worked with a powerhouse duo called Barbara Coombe and Maggie Slingsby. That’s us in the pic below, working on the series of 28 school reading books that we …
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Flourish Wallpaper at Robin Sprong
We are over the moon about the most beautiful FLOURISH wallpaper we’ve made with Robin Sprong Wallpapers. Robin Sprong Wallpapers is a Cape Town business, creating and installing bespoke wall coverings, with agencies and associates across South Africa and around the world to help bring your walls to life. Visit the Robin Sprong Wallpapers website to order your transformation!
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It’s time for FLOURISH
FLOURISH is here to celebrate our tangled, buzzing, burgeoning natural world, fizzing with life, variety and vigour. This design is a call to put aside futuristic dreams of Mars and AI, and to fall back in love with the beauty, wonder and delight that our planet offers us in abundance. The word Flourish describes a …
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Oddjects is back!
💥FLASH QUIZ! 💥 Question 1: One of the shapes below is called BOUBA and the other is called KIKI. they’re both nonsense words, but can you guess which name belongs to which shape? If you’re like most people – across cultures, languages and ages – you’ll likely have called the soft, friendly shape BOUBA, and …
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History lesson – Sevilla Rock
After more than 15 years, Herds is the oldest Skinny laMinx design still in production.
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Collaboration: Mae Artisan Rugs X Skinny laMinx
Read about the rug collaboration of Skinny laMinx and Mae Artisan Rugs.
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Scandi Candy : The Design Story
Where did the idea for the clear, simple Scandi Candy design come from? Read on for insight into Heather’s design process.
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