Mathilde Aubier

While collecting imagery and inspiration for a holiday project, I found French illustrator Mathilde Aubier in one of the file cabinets in the art buying department. I love her style and use of real elements/photos! I haven’t seen anything similar to this illustration style. These would make great holiday window displays.

Oh Joy!

Our etsy shop went live on Wednesday and the lovely Joy of Oh Joy! featured our Gocco drawstring bags on her site. Guess how many hits we had on our Design Night site? 525! Amazing. Thanks, Joy!

Surprisingly people are buying only the Dala Horse bags.

Saturday Photoshoot

Got up early this morning at 7:30am to catch the soft morning light...why couldn’t the soft morning light come after 10am?

I shot the photos at my office (large windows). It took 2 hours to get 6 final shots! I forgot how much time it takes to gather everything (leaves, seeds, pods, rice, etc.), to set up the shot, to tweak, tweak, tweak and to cleanup. I’m super happy with the photos, lots to choose from.

Free People

Tomorrow I’m submitting a painting into the Free People Illustration contest. My theme was based on “What’s in my bag?”. Here’s a couple of samples that I painted for one of the components. After this is done, I’ll pick up where I left off with the gocco printing on drawstring bags.