You know Heath Ceramics, by now, right? We’ve been working together since they placed a first order in 2008, we’ve designed and produced staff aprons, tea towels and other custom designs for them, and last year I had a pop up shop in their LA store. We’re old friends! Lately, I’ve been using Heath’s Dimensional tile collection as …
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Making Friday: A Multi-dimensional relationship
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Making Friday: Keep going
One of the things I like to do on a Making Friday is to take a single motif and to print the heck out of it until I feel I’ve exhausted all its possibilities… and then to print some more. Had a great one of these days on Friday, using this simple motif. Now I’ve got itchy fingers …
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Afro optimism
It’s election day today, and a public holiday too, so I recommend picking up a copy of the new Elle Decoration magazine to get a dose of Afro-optimism, courtesy of the editor’s letter and Peet Pienaar’s AfroSuperFuture manifesto. I got my dose while reading a copy on Making Friday last week, and look what it made me do: I …
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Making Friday: Renewing my vows
One of the things that keeping a blog is good for is to make public commitments that (in theory) hold me accountable. So here’s a pronouncement from me: Making Friday is not optional, and for the rest of the year, barring floods, fire and aeroplane trips, I will be in the Think Tank every Friday. The entire reason that …
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Making Friday: Old habits and new designs
Whenever I end up in my Think Tank on Making Friday without a proper idea of what I’d like to get done, I seem to do the same thing: I fill up a page with regular brush marks that look like multiple openings, or windows in a big building. It’s relaxing, and makes me feel like I’m …
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Oddjects exhibition 3 – 5 March
Don’t miss the Oddjects exhibition of ceramics and drawings at the Skinny laMinx shop from 3 – 5 March.
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Making Friday: collection
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll have no doubt have heard me banging on about what I made on Making Friday. In case you don’t know about it though, that’s the studio day I try to put aside for non-essential (but very essential) unstructured creative work. (Read more about the Making Friday idea). …
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All the Oddjects
For two years, I’ve been making things from clay at morning classes with Louise Gelderblom, but haven’t really catalogued them anywhere, so today’s the day to show all the Oddjects (or the ones I remembered to photograph, at least) all at once.
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Making Friday: From Sketchbook to Oddject
Notebooks are very useful things to have with you. They’re good for recording fleeting ideas, and good to look back on to see where you’ve been. For two years, I’ve kept this little “Ceramics Ideas” notebook alongside my other general notebook, jotting down ideas for shapes I’d like to make in the Monday morning ceramics classes I’ve …
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