After all the dottiness last month, we’ve now gone a bit nuts about our stripey patterns. Take a look at the colourful and fun Simple Stripe design. Isn’t that kids’ apron just too cute? Or is it just the effect of our little model, Finn? Our more grown-up aprons also look good in Simple Stripe, but …
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Skinny laMinx Stripes
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Spotty laMinx?
When you lay them out on a table, we’ve got a lot of spots and dots in the Skinny laMinx range, don’t we? Look at Abacus, Pebble and Gridly, all doing their dotty best to up the spot count. Spot quiz: How many spots and dots you can see in this blog post. Anyone? I’ll hand …
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Inspired by: Red & Blue & More
I’ve always found a red and blue combination to be a little bit “obvious”, bringing to mind things like cowboys, Stars & Stripes, Union Jacks – you know what I mean. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Look at this room, photographed for Italian furniture manufacturer Battistella for their children’s range Nidi. It’s that surprising addition …
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Best Things: Tile inspiration
Ever since we started looking for tiles for our bathroom renovation, and came across these wild and trippy handpainted cement tiles at Moroccan Warehouse, I’ve found my head turning towards tiles quite compulsively. What I find so exciting about tile is the way that pattern gets built up so compellingly, and often in ways that surprise, …
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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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New on Nuvango
I’ve already got my Skinny laMinx mobile phone cover, but I’m sorely tempted to get a new one in the Diggi Dot prints too! See the whole range of mobile covers and laptop skins for sale in the Skinny laMinx Nuvango store.
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Patterns in monochrome
I took quite a lot of photos of patterns on my travels, mostly from concrete, steel and paint. Hope you like ’em!
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Best Things from LA #01: Alvin Lustig & Doyle Lane
Two discoveries made while in LA, courtesy of long-time Skinny laMinx fan, Melinda Forster and her journalist friend Andrew Romano, will stay with me for a long time. ALVIN LUSTIG Both discoveries came out of a visit arranged by Melinda to her Andrew’s extraordinary mid-century house on the hills in Silverlake. Andrew has an investigative journalist’s love for for …
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