It's now official: I'm admitted to Holy Shit Shopping in Berlin on the 13.-14. December!!!!
That means production and nightshifts ahead. Although the fair fee is quite high - at least for me, because most of my products are a mere 10 Euro - I'm looking forward. This event will push me further. Onto another professional level. Wow, sometimes it happens faster than expected.
This November will be exactly one year that I relocated to Berlin and it's about 3-4 months that I started Eden. And for that it's doing very fine. To be honest, I never expected it that fine. Strange world.
Crafting alarm! I'm working on some new sweeties. Bird, mushrooms, wild animals, boxers and the famous Grussonkel will populate Eden. So it's going to be crowdy.
The october issue of the german AD is a brilliant roundup of German Design, Interiors, Art and Architecture. Like a little reference book about new and old things to explore.
There's for example the Grassi Messe at Leipzig, a design and crafts fair established in the 1920s. This international forum for applied art and design was in its heyday a "Meeting Place for Modernity" and was reopened in 1997.
The last weeks were very busy. Thanks to the workshop " Make it, blog it, shop it" with Holly from decor8 in cooperation with Dawanda. This was the last kick I needed to move further. A lot further.
These are the results.
Lots of inspiration while strolling through historic vinyard in Potsdam, sitting on the balcony and a new friend for the "Paradise Lost" line , an owl brooch.
Voilà les animals. I had this project for a long time in my head. Animal brooches or in this special case, finger puppets presenting endangered or extinct species. With a lot of luck this guys will be produced exclusively for the Pergamon Museum's Shop in Berlin. This all happened with a lot of chance, networking and lovely people who thought of me when they were brainstorming on new products for the Museum Shop. So on leads to annother.
Above are shown animals from the Ancient Turkey and the Near East. The puppets are very closely modeled after original exhibits from the Museum and show (from left to right) the dragon Muschchuschu from the famous Ishtar Gate, a funny table leg who pretends to be a lion (a detail from a painting at the Museum of Islamic Art) and a lion from the Ishtar Gate. Due to the huge success of my owl brooches I will expand the Paradise Lost line with more extinct or rare animals like the Dodo, the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland or the very own bavarian Wolpertinger. They will be premiering on the annual Holy Shit Shopping Lounge in Berlin.
