Reiko Kaneko a fellow ‘grimm’ designer has had her lovely London flat featured on Design Sponge. Reiko and I met while collaborating together last year on the grimm design project.
I was very pleasantly surprised when I visited her flat one day to find her living room decked out in pineapple wallpaper! & even more chuffed to discover she had had a pineapple painting party!
You can have a look at the design spong feature here
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The new Woodland Wallpaper has just been featured in the December issue of Homework Mag. The new design magazine published monthly with the Guardian on Saturday. The wallpaper was used as a back drop to the monochrome theme shoot and looks brilliant.
The Tilly Wallpaper-By-Numbers is being exhibited in Face Au Mur, Papiers Peints Contemporains. The first major exhibition of contemporary wallpapers presented by the Mudac and the Musee de Pully.
The exhibition will run from the 3rd November 2010 until the 13th February 2011.
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I was very excited to be an official sponsor of the Autumn Affordable Art Fair. The Pineapple Wallpaper-By-Numbers was used for the fairs education space. With visitors and exhibitors helping to colour it in throughout the fair.
I also ran a workshop on the Sunday afternoon of the fair introducing people to screen printing and printing wallpaper.
www.affordableartfair.co.uk/
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Once upon a time…
Six London based designers got together with a simple idea. To collaborate together and create unique designs based on the stories of the Brothers Grimm.
The story so far . . .
Grimm++ is a collaboration between six emerging British designers, Christopher Duffy, Reiko Kaneko, Nick Fraser, Lauren Moriarty and Wai-Lian Scannell & Jenny Wilkinson. The individuals decided it would be “nice” to be collectively grimm++.
London 2010 brought the first of a series of collective projects, each based on one of the Brothers Grimm folktales.
The collective was awarded the Peta Levi Memorial Bursary, in association with Design Nation, and launched their first collection at 100% Design in September.
The first theme was based on The Tale of Little Red Cap (sometimes called Little Red Riding Hood). Visitors could explore the tale through a variety of products and furniture, from photographic woodland wallpaper, with a grey wolf among the birch trees, to a bright red chair with a mysterious wolf-shaped shadow.
The Little Red Cap collection allowed each designer to express his or her own personality and design talent under a coherent theme. With only one folktale down, and dozens to go, we can look forward to more chapters from the grimm++ collective, and more eclectic sets of furniture and products.
For more information about the show and the grimm products we created, have a look at our website www.grimmdesigners.com
Here is a new print designed for the grimm collective. The design will be printed onto cotton fabric to be used as fabric shopping bags. A modern day on Little Red Riding Hood basket.
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Tagged basket, Illustration, pattern, pen & ink, red riding hood, shopping bag
Here is some work that I have recently been doing for Aunty Beryl in preparation for her New Business and Television Debut!
As part of Aunty Beryl’s recruitment for Nannies to knit her scarves, I created a Poster with a vintage post war theme to get nannies to come down for a knitting recruitment day.
It was also filmed by the BBC for the documentary on the next British Brands that Aunty Beryl is being filmed for. It will air in May so will keep you posted!
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Tagged Aunty Beryl, Beryl Wear, Knitting, Posters, Website Design
