PRODUCT NEWS

In my blog-cationing absence, I have not been holidaying. Nope. I've been doing this...

This is just a small sample of our new range that will be launched at Markit@FedSquare this coming Sunday. Sadly, we are just too busy to come up with a fancy name. So we are asking you dear reader to help us name the range. You can WIN one of the two pendant pictured below, just by going to our Facebook page and giving it a name. The only condition is that the name has to have the word TIME in it! Yep, you can suggest anything.... The two winners will be decided the day before Markit (the 28th of May) and the winners will be contacted via email! And bonus... you can pick up your prize from Markit, or we can mail it to you.

We'd love to see you at Markit. In the mean time, we'll get back to the painting!!!

Blog-cation

Dearest readers and So Little Time Co. fans,

I'm sad to say that life has taken over these past few weeks, and that blogging has been on the back burner. It's awful,I know, and I am so sorry I did not let you know sooner, but I have decided for my long lists sake and to be fair to you dear reader, that I should rather announce a short hiatus!

The good news in all this is that the hiatus is occurring for a good reason - that being
Between uni assignments, work and volunteering my time and skills, So Little Time Co. Is preparing for a market! Markit to be exact on the 29th of May 2011, and with this preparation will come a new range!

So my dear readers be prepared for a Markit post to kick start this blogs heart once more. Until then dear readers I'll bid you fair well!

x Kirsty

P.s I will be on Twitter, Facebook and plan to send out a newsletter. If you are interested in receiving a newsletter, please email hello@solittletimeco.com and I'll pop you on the list!

Share the Love Fridays #6

So I'm on Twitter, and I love it! It connects people in such an amazing way - you can make new friends, catch up with old ones that you never see and maybe even find out what your dream workplace is up to. To be honest though, I have no idea how anyone finds ME in the giant big world of Twitter, but I was so so glad that Studio Sweet Studio found me, because then I found them, and LOVED what I found.

Yep, this Friday it's all about blog crushing!

Studio Sweet Studio is a blog website and apparently yearly publication (that I would love to get my mits on) which features all sorts of creative people, their work and most exciting to me... their WORKSPACE!

It was created by Meg and Tuesday, both whom are wonderfully talented in their own rights.

In fact, check out their work below.

Amazing Tuesday the illustrator

Nice work from Meg

I love friends who start blogs and create magic together! Thanks Meg and Tuesday for giving me a chance to sticky-beak into creative types' spaces and also for being so darned talented too!

Fashionable Tuesdays # 6

My sweet friend Sophie just got an internship at Romance was Born. I'd of course, never heard of them. So I looked them up. Check out their dino-saur things.

P.S Been very busy updating the website and applying for markets and things... Sorry for the lack of Friday posting.... Will make it up to you xox

Icelandic Adventures...

One of my favourite illustrators/bloggers has been out adventuring, and has truly opened my eyes to the wonder that is Iceland. Needless to say, her photographs could sell anyone... I highly recommend watching her blog over the next short while - these photos were just part 1!

 All images sourced via Kristomatic's blog. 

Fashionable Tuesdays #4

Not my usual style, but they sure are pretty...
From Sretsis

Tactile Designers

I thought the that seeings as I'm always ranting about university consuming my life and blaming that for the lack of updates here, that I should share with you the things I'm studying.

I wont go into to much detail because it's seriously complex and my brain hurts anytime I think about it in-depth, but I will share with you my fascinating findings and exciting discoveries. Basically I'm looking into tactile design, and the effect that the introduction technology is having on graphic design education in regards to the value (or lack there of) placed on the ability to draw, sketch, craft, create, cut and paste etc.

It's very exciting stuff for me, partly because I am passionate about education, but also because I love making things with my hands, and I don't feel enough graphic designers do this. I think that if I pursue studying in the next few years, it shall be down this track.

So it was much to my excitement that my study partner found that the latest IdN magazine did a feature on tactile design. Maybe it's a buzz word, and just simply was once called craft or handy graphics, but I sure like the word. Tactile. It's reflective of the senses and the emotions which are attached to the way we get around in this world - feel, touch, learn.

Anyway, back to IdN. So much to my delight, they actually featured tactile designers, who consider tactility in their process a valid and important part of design, and quite often the outcome is in a sense, tactile.

Here are some very inspirational examples and their sources, which I highly recommend you check out.
Enjoy your week...

The work of Chrissie Macdonald

The work of This Is It Collective

And my most very favourite... Julien Vallée