Made in Glasgow

Earlier this year I applied to an open call on the Craft Scotland website to design a corporate gift for overseas guests of the British Council Scotland when visiting here for cultural relations....

It's been quite a while in the making but we're finally nearly ready to launch our exciting new interiors line! Last year we were very lucky to be awarded a Creative Scotland Artist's Bursary which allowed us to take time to do some important research and development about an idea that had been rumbling away in the background for a while...

This exciting project began at the end of last year when Craft Scotland put a call out for any makers on their directory to come forward who were interested in creating a collection for the National Trust for Scotland. This sounded like an interesting proposal and a great way to start 2015, so I attended their first briefing day at the National Trust's headquarters in Edinburgh in January this year.

Small is beautiful was an amazing two day conference that was held in Glasgow on the 4th June and 5th June by  Deborah Keogh and Roanne Dodds with the aim of providing 'insight, intelligence and ideas about how to thrive as a committed micro'.

Earlier this year we were approached by Lush to create an exclusive print design for the opening of their new Buchanan Street store. We were really excited and flattered to be given this opportunity, so working to the brief of the word 'fresh', we created the following design and screen printed a limited edition of 200 bags from our Glasgow studio. 

Openaries is one of the events at this year's Glasgow International festival and takes place at three different locations on three different dates during the festival. It's hosted by artists Laura Aldridge and Anna Mayer who have built a portable ceramics kiln that will be used to fire objects offered by local artists or practitioners.

Last week we showed you how we screen print the fabric for our duffel bags in our studio, now we want to give you a glimpse into how we make them up and the materials we use.

Did you know that our existing range of duffel bags are printed and made entirely in-house in our Glasgow based studio? Here's a peek at how the first part of how they come together - the printing process...