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On Thursday 26 Feb 2010 the Design Indaba Expo opens at the International Convention Centre in Cape Town, and I’m very excited to be showing my things for the first time at the Expo. If you’re visiting, please come to the Threadcount stand, where I’ll be along with the rest of the Threadcount Collective.

Four of us are showing together at Expo, and at the same time, we’ll be running a Pop Up Shop in a studio the BoKaap, where there’ll be much more space to see our fabric and buy our things.

The Pop Up Shop will be running until 6 march. Click [here]http://www.threadcount.co.za/2010/02/design-indaba-expo-2010/) for a map to the Shop.

I’m very excited to announce that from January 2010, The Silk & Cotton co. will be carrying my Sevilla Rock range of fabrics in their four showrooms in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Durban.

The Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg has just opened a show called FENOMEN IKEA, “dealing with the complex field of mass production and quality, globality and national tastes, individual habits and quality of life, fashions in living and advertising, and asks questions such as: does IKEA offer good design? Where does IKEA get its ideas from? Is IKEA typically Swedish? Can living quarters be organized? Does living in a good environment mean that you live a good life? Is there such a thing as a collective IKEA experience?”

Part of the exhibition is a section called NON IKEA, dealing with designers and artists who have made objects that “take up the concepts, materials and products of IKEA and create something completely new out of them: taking aesthetic principles to extremes, introducing new functions, alienating the designs to make them subversive and provocative.”

I’m thrilled that my I Wish We had IKEA tea towels and cushions are on the NON IKEA part of the show. Wish I could be there.

Local fashion designer, Alexandra Höjer commissioned me to design this fabric for her Winter collection along a folklorish theme.

I’m so thrilled to have been included in amazing new book called Naive - Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design, published by Gestalten Books. It’s fantastic to have had three of my illustrations included in such a lovely book, but even better that this book is really fantastic and well put together.

Spruce is a design studio in Austin, Texas, doing wonderful upholstery projects. They gave me a big thrill when, not long after releasing my Sevilla Rock collection, they asked for samples, and not long after that, they placed the first yardage big order I received.

It’s so exciting now to see what they did with the Duikers yardage that they ordered.

I’ve finally found one solution to all the scraps, misprints and seconds in my studio: it’s the scrapEep! Stuffed with cotton offcuts, this little Eep! birdie works as a pincushion or as an eco-friendly baby toy too.