If you live in Cape Town and drive a car, you’ll have driven past Customs House many times as you set off away from the city on Nelson Mandela Boulevard. It’s on the harbour side of the elevated freeway, and as you drive past, you may have spotted a portion of an interesting blue tile mosaic, frustratingly …
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OH Thursdays: Customs House
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Best Things: Studio Ilse for IKEA
Some of the readers of this blog will recall that I used to ardently wish that we had IKEA in South Africa. In fact, I was so desperate that in 2009, I even made a tea towel about it! I’ve since had the IKEA experience for myself (reality seldom lives up to dreams, sadly), but …
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Inspired By: Mint & liquorice
I spotted this photo by Tom Leighton on Remodelista, and it made me think of the Liquorice Mint colour group I put together for our Colour Book. Simple Stripe, in mint Find lots more colour combination inspiration in our 2015/16 Colour Book.
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Contemporary Design Africa
I coudn’t be more delighted to see that Skinny laMinx has been included in this fabulous book called Contemporary Design Africa, by Tapiwa Matsinde and published by Thames & Hudson, and celebrating the contemporary in African design. The book shows how African’s craft traditions are being preserved and revived with an exciting contemporary twist, developing an African identity …
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Making Friday: CMYK lino printing
I’ve had a really extended Making Friday in July, spending every Saturday at Warren Editions learning the art of CMYK lino printing from master printmaker Zhané Warren and head of relief prints, Morné Visagie. Because I’m a completely self taught designer (thanks, Google!), I’ve got a lot to learn about the ‘proper’ way to do things. …
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The scarves are back!
Remember the block printed dupatta scarves from April this year? I designed them after my Jaipur trip last year, and they proved to be crazily popular – sold out within a couple of weeks of their arrival in April. Well, the good news is that we have more of them available in the shop now, but don’t …
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Inspired by: Lemon & Fog & Sage
I’ve had this little cluster of objects on the meeting table this week, and it made me wonder which of our table runners these things might work best as a centrepiece. Take a look at a bit of fun I had with these props and three of our table runners: a sunny yellow Abacus, the fresh, …
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Across the Sea – a brand new tea towel
It’s been a while since we made a new tea towel (the last one was the Stig design, remember?), and it’s always kind of exciting to have something brand new to show. So here we go with Across the Sea -– screenprinted on absorbant cotton hopsack in three seafaring colourways called Pacific, Sunrise and Granite. Perfect for daydreaming about …
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Products 2015/16
Our new products catalogue is out! Take a look at all the yummy new things right here, and then head over to the shop to buy something too!
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