The sun was out on Making Friday last week, and so was my Alexander Girard catalogue, which I got at the Vitra show in July last year, and these two factors came together in a very sunny moodboard. Are you a Girard fan too? Did you see my post about my day at Vitra Design …
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Making Friday: Remembering Girard
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Making Friday: Fending off the snooze
The only thing to do to avoid succumbing to the lure of the snooze, is to just MAKE something. Anything!
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Making Friday: Plant shadows
Some of the experiments and photos I’ve been taking around the idea of plant shadows.
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Making Friday with GIH Studio
This post is a bit of a mashup of our Friends & Neighbours and Making Friday features, because it’s a story about a South African designer who credits his start as a furniture designer to my Making Fridays idea. I met Gareth Henderson of GIH Studio on a glaringly hot rooftop in Cape Town earlier this year, as …
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Making Friday with Jenna
I don’t know Jenna McArthur in the least, but I had lots of fun with her picture in my studio last Making Friday, after cutting away her dress to see what she’d look like dressed in Skinny laMinx prints. And the verdict is: She looks great in everything! Which is your fave?
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Making Friday: Baskets and suns
I discovered on Making Friday that Folk art and sun shapes are best friends.
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Post-Trump Making Friday
What I did when Trump was elected.
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A Making Friday in Jaipur
The last time I was block printing in Jaipur, I had a brainwave…
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Making Friday: Macrame
If you’ve been following blogs for a while, you must have come across Bloesem – the beautiful design blog which Irene Hoofs has been writing for the last 10 years (we both started blogging in 2006!). Over time, Irene has evolved Bloesem, rebranding as BloesemDesign, adding BloesemKids, and now she’s even started a magazine… on paper! It’s called Koel, and …
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