I’m a bit worn out after styling and shooting THREE catalogues this year (products 2014/15 due out at the end of the week), and so trying to wrap my head around the idea of a Christmas shoot was just about a bridge too far for me on a Monday morning. I had some loose palm …
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Productive procrastination
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New tea towel – Stig
So excited to have a brand new tea towel design to share with you. This one is called Stig. Why “Stig”? Well, you might recall my recent post on my blog about a papercut I made, inspired by one of my all-time favourite designers, Stig Lindberg? That has been turned into a fabric design, and …
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Making Friday – 14 June
Last week’s Making Friday was spent with my 7-year-old niece, Isabel. We designed and made iron-on motifs on fabric, and sewed it up into a cushion (but forgot to photograph it!), and then we made variations on my paper doll idea. Looking forward to doing it again some time, Izzy!
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Azulejos
In June, my bloke showed three of his works at a big exhibition at the Gulbenkian Institute in Lisbon. He’s been working on a large tile project himself, for Spier Architectural Arts, and is really into pattern, so was naturally blown away by tile and pattern riches he saw in Lisbon. One of the gifts …
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Making Friday/Monday – the ceramics keep coming
I’ve been making so many funny little vase-shaped things in my Monday morning ceramics classes, and I’m quite enjoying being productive without having the faintest idea of the purpose of the enterprise (which is exactly what Making Friday is all about!). These two (remember Rooi en Blou on TV?) are the latest works in progress.
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Lookbook 2014
The Paradise is Here fabric collection is pretty different from what I’ve designed for Skinny laMinx before, but in May, while I was hiding away at the ThinkTank, shooting our Lookbook 2014, I was very happy to find how well these crazy new prints integrate with the existing fabrics. The Lookbook is organised around five …
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Inspiration – Paradise is Here
After my visit to Tokyo last year, I felt my eyes were opened to was how important plants are to a city environment, and my thoughts about this ended up with the fabric collection we’re launching this evening, called Paradise is Here. Plants in a city – but maybe particularly in like Tokyo, which was …
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Making Friday: Inspired by Stig
One of my long-time favourite designers is Swedish all-rounder Stig Lindberg. If you’re also a fan of Scandi design from the 50’s & 60’s, you’re sure to know some of his things, some of which are still in production. You must, for instance, recognise the Bersa design (below) – possibly his best-loved ever – but …
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Pink, silver, grey
Winter has hit us, and while I’m not crazy about the chilly toes, I’m quite excited about all the opportunities for new clothes combinations. A little boy asked me about my favourite colour the other day, and I told him that I mostly like colours teamed up with others. (Poor kid – he picked the …
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