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...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleAfro 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...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleMAKING FRIDAY: A Multi-dimensional relationship
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...
View ArticleMaking 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!)....
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