Thursday 22 July 2010

Papa Stour

Papa Stour is one of those great little finds if you have ever had the pleasure to stumble across it, as I did several years ago. Bringing together the finest contemporary craft designer-makers based in Scotland, it has a huge range of unique and beautiful household items, stationary and jewellery which would make the perfect gift for friends, family or even yourself!
And I now have the pleasure of announcing I am one of their newest recruits with a selection of my current work available for sale from the Papa Stour website...so make sure to pop along not just to check out GraceInk but the other wonderful design work they have to offer.

And one last thing, new design work at Papa Stour has been recently blogged about at the design sponge blog (which if you're not already a fan of, you should really visit the possibility) www.designspongeonline.com/2010/07/new-at-papa-stour.html


Wednesday 21 July 2010

I have been forecasted...WGSN

For those amongst us with a membership to WGSN then the news is good as you can now view my work as part of the Interiors Trend Analysis for New Designers Part Two, for those of you without (including me) you'll have to take my word for it...I did get a sneak peek at the article and I get name-checked below!

'WGSN loves Grace Smith's tactile, hand-printed linens featuring birdcages and folk art references'

WGSN is a fantastic trend forecasting and analysis website providing the lowdown on anything and everything design from fashion to product, illustration to furniture as well as the coolest boutiques and exhibitions worldwide.

Tuesday 20 July 2010

New Designers: One Year On Update

Thought you might all enjoy some pictures from inside the One Year On stand at New Designers Part Two this year. If you couldn't make it then you missed out but hopefully the pictures below will go someway to making up for it! If you want to check out the designer-makers that were there then head over to www.newdesignersonline.co.uk.


Lisa Connolly and GraceInk Design
Paul Cummins



Kate Usher


Sarah-Jayne Guest, Tamar Balakjian and Edward Robinson




Andy Murray





Home Addict by Caroline Gauci
Lauren Revell and Leah Wade

Monday 12 July 2010

New Designers: One Year On 2010


New Designers has come and gone for another year and while I'm busy collating all the lovely work on show at One Year On to get online I thought I would direct you towards the Arts Thread Blog to check out some of the lovely people that took part.
Arts Thread is the World's Only Creative Graduate Website and allows those of us in the creative industry to get their portfolios out there to be seen by the right people at the right time.

Check back soon for more...