My Orla print is available for sale as yardage. It’s great for all kinds of projects. In a collaboration with Dan Saks of Saks Corner, I’ve had some chairs upholstered in this print.
Organics at Volksfaden
I delighted to announce that one of my designs is being sold at German fabrics company Volksfaden, as part of the Volksfaden organic cotton print collection. My ‘Linked Birds’ design is printed on GOTS certified organic cotton and printed with vegetable dyes, available in gold and in plum.
Skinny laMinx at the Design Indaba Expo
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.
Skinny laMinx for Frazer Parfum
I’m so proud to have my Pincushion design adorning the african hardwood of the Frazer Parfum Solidecontainers.
This local company is selling their high-end products all over the world, including in Harrods, and from this month, the Parfum Solide is available at Anthropologie stores.
Skinny laMinx at The Silk & Cotton Co.
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.
Satsuma/Heath Ceramics/ Skinny laMinx giveaway
In collaboration with Satsuma Press and Heath Ceramics, there’s a wonderful giveaway on the Satsuma Press blog, where you can win ceramics from Heath, kitchen linens from me, and letterpress cards from Satsuma Press, designed by Skinny laMinx. It runs to 7 December, so go enter now!.
Fenomen IKEA
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.
Collaboration with Satsuma Press
I’m so excited to be working on a collaboration with Lynn Russell of Satsuma Press, a small letterpress studio in Portland Oregon. My card designs, printed on her press, will be available for Christmas orders.
Fabric for Alexandra Höjer
Local fashion designer, Alexandra Höjer commissioned me to design this fabric for her Winter collection along a folklorish theme.
New Stockists
I’m thrilled to be stocking new shops all over the world, like Enid in Frederiksburg, Texas, Lotus Bleu in San Francisco, Swedish online store, Designista too.
Naive book
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.
Flower net
For a month or so I’ve been working on a new paper cut, and it’s finally finished. It’s called Flower Net.
At Spruce Austin
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.
Waiting tea towel
I’ve added a new tea towel design to my Etsy shop, and it’s called Waiting. Initially, Waiting was a silkscreen in red ink on paper, sold in a limited edition of 25, and now it’s available as a tea towel, in red and in charcoal.
The scrapEep!
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.
