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L + J Blog- Introducing Hideaway!Actually, strikeoffs came in about two months ago, but I’ve been a bit slack with the blog lately. When I received the strikeoffs in the mail, I felt as though we had officially crossed our first milestone in the fabric design industry… It was looking a little bleak there for a while, but our second [...] […]
- Botany BackdropAs I’ve probably mentioned in previous entries, my roommate in Atlanta was a girl named Megan Kibby, who has since become quite the little photographer. Her ideas/compositions are unique and off-the-wall and that’s what makes them so completely fabulous. The photos in this blog entry (in my opinion) show off one of her more brilliant [...] […]
- I Love Creative People.And I love it even more when those people take awesome photos of their creativity and send them my way… I received an email from a crafty genius out in Indiana named Britt who recently blogged about a quilt she was making with Botany! Her blog, Scrapyard, features an eclectic collection of projects that [...] […]
- The Invitation SagaWell, it’s official. Carrie Jung will be getting married to Jon Clausen on June 5th, 2010… and there are now 85 wedding invitations out there that back up the whole story. As my wedding present to Carrie, I designed her invitations and took care of all the printing. Carrie headed up the production [...] […]
- Rainbow of Business CardsOne of the first things that I love to do after finishing a big project is taking blog photos! I take A LOT and I waste a ridiculous amount of time… but it’s so much fun to scroll through all of them later! Right before Market we got about 500 cards printed up at Kinkos so [...] […]
- Introducing Hideaway!
A Little Bit of Background
If you’ve read the About Us Section of either this blog or our website, you can probably skip this entry… it’s pretty much copied and pasted, verbatim.
• Born and raised in Spartanburg, SC• Studied abroad in Cortona, Italy
• Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts—Furman University
• Graduate Degree in Graphic Design—Portfolio Center, Atlanta
• Currently a web designer—G2 Interactive
• Living in Philadelphia, 818 miles away from her sweet boyfriend, Beau • Born and raised in Amish country—Pennsylvania
• Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology—Clemson University
• Master’s Degree in Deaf Education—Converse College
• Currently a quilter and pattern designer
• Living in Spartanburg, SC with her husband, Chip, a cute dog named Rudy, and nearby to her youngest daughter, Carrie.
• Team work certainly has its merits, especially when coming into this with two completely different backgrounds and skill sets. We do all of our brainstorming together. First, we develop a central concept for the main fabric, then we decide how this will be carried out through each of the supporting fabrics.
• Jessi is in charge of all of the initial sketches, which Lauren takes and recreates on her Mac.
• Together we refine, tweek, arrange, and choose colors.
• Once the line is complete, we divide and conquer… Lauren is in charge of everything web related… designing, programming, blogging, etc., while Jessi is busy designing patterns. She managed to design and write six patterns for our first line!
• Botany attempts to reveal an intricacy and delicacy found within the natural world, while drawing its inspiration from traditional botanical illustrations (as can be seen in the main fabric, Flora.)
• The largest print, Wildlife, takes on a free flowing organic style, and includes elements from each of our nine supporting fabrics, thus unifying the series.