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Sweetdesignstudio
Ese Akpojotor is designer and publisher of new greeting cards range Sweetdesignstudio. The collection is a new take on pattern and fashion design through its selection of cards, gift-wraps and prints.
Sweetdesignstudio comes in a series of ranges:
Sweet girls
Celebrating the woman of colour through style, and individuality. Each card features a quirky and girly pose to highlight its personality and fashion sense. A range of mixed media is used to carefully craft each design for the girls.
Pattern
A collection of everyday objects and images transformed to produce contemporary and bold patterns. Each card has its own take on pattern design through its use of colour and shape.
Silhouette
A simplistic take on all things loved and admired. Again, using everyday objects and images, the silhouette collection is more detailed and less on colour.
All of Sweetdesignstudio products are made and printed in the UK.
Sian Zeng
Sian was born in China and moved to Hungary with her parents when she was seven. She graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2009 with a BA in Textile Design and has since created her own collection of fabrics, illustrated stuffed bears and wallpapers as well as having designed several bespoke client led projects.
Her work is often inspired by her own fairy-tale-like narratives which she uses to create surface designs and illustrations. In 2008 she was awarded the William Atkinson scholarship by Central Saint Martins for her designs on Little Red Riding Hood in 2010/2011 the Elle Decoration young talent of the year award by the Elle Decoration Hungary.
Magnetic Wallpaper
Inspired by the changeable nature of fairy tale stories, where frogs can suddenly become princes and princes can become frogs, this work is concerned with visual narratives that can be altered through interaction. I have created a collection of narrative wallpapers that allow users to move magnetic characters on the wallpaper, write on the speech bubbles and place them anywhere they like.
Sian Zeng - stand LP41 in Launchpad
Sharon Pringle
Sharon is a textile and pattern designer based in Edinburgh. After graduating from the Glasgow School of Art in 2009 with a first in Textile Design, she uses her passion for drawing and colour in her work for her scarf label ‘Clo’ and on her own interiors product range. She undertakes commissions and previous clients have included boutique hotels, charities and private individuals.
Sharon Pringle - stand LP60 in Launchpad
Lucky Boy Sunday
This is a brand of modern luxury knitted art toys and soft furnishings for the home, inspired by an artistic take on the world of children. The brand’s designers, Camilla Koerschen and Camilla Ebdrup, are highly creative textile designers with backgrounds in fashion and art, who founded their studio in 2007 inCopenhagen,Denmark. Their work fuses fashion, art and play to bring a poetic, artistic sensibility to both the living room and the child’s space. All Lucky Boy Sunday’s designs are manufactured in Bolivia using high-grade alpaca yarn, knitted in cooperatives working under the fair trade principle. Their work is made to both withstand the rigors of child’s play and make a design statement in an adult’s environment. RRP’s art toys: £30 to £110, cushions: £50-£90, blankets £200-£300.
Lucky Boy Sunday - stand G1
DickyBird
DickyBird is a small studio based in London.
Coming from a design background, their aim is to bring something more simple and graphic to the world of greetings. They love clean shapes, beautiful colours, graphic patterns, Mid-century design and all things Scandinavian. Established 18 months ago, DickyBird have featured on The Cool Hunter and Bloesem blogs, and are currently spreading the DickyBird word in eight countries from Finland to Australia - from Scandinavian design store Skandium to the Tate Modern.
Dicky Bird - stand C16
Tobyboo
From London's Central Saint Martins, to TV work to Tobyboo, Tina Crawford says of her latest collection Oranges & Lemons "My designs sprouted from my enthusiasm for London and it's history combined with my Catholic upbringing. I always have a church in the back of my mind! I'm fascinated at the darker meaning behind children's stories and rhymes"
"I'm not keen on coming up with illustrations with no back story or history, I need something to get my teeth stuck into wether the viewer knows the story or not I need it for me".
Tina currently lives in South London with her husband and son, Toby - Tobyboo’s namesake. Along side motherhood and being a slave to the sewing machine she battles with chronic pain, narcolepsy and fibromyalgia. Rather than go mad being housebound I started taking up sewing and when I could leave the house did a freehand machine embroidery course - this led to Twinkle handbags which led to more illness which led (eventually) to having Toby and finally starting Tobyboo .... everything happens for a reason.
Tobyboo LP37 in Launchpad
