Kids and Teen Blog
Category: Design & Typography
Petit Collage is coming to Raincoast!
by Danielle
Design & Typography + Environment + Gift & Stationery + Home & Garden / July 18, 2013
July 18, 2013
Raincoast is now the exclusive Canadian distributor for Petit Collage, a leading lifestyle brand for modern families, based in San Francisco. Petit Collage encompasses over 200 eco-friendly products ranging from toys and games to wall décor and mobiles.
Petit Collage’s founder, Lorena Siminovich, is a noted designer, illustrator, author, and entrepreneur, who has been featured in Dwell magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Petit Collage products are sold in over 500 stores worldwide including Barneys NY, Anthropologie, Pottery Barn Kids, and select Canadian boutique baby stores.
“Lorena’s design sense is hugely appealing to Raincoast, and her commitment to quality, sustainability, and fair trading practices truly resonates. Petit Collage both complements our existing client base and provides us with ample opportunity to stretch ourselves in a changing
retail market,” says Paddy Laidley, Executive Vice-President of Sales & Marketing for Raincoast. “Petit Collage is a perfect fit for Canada and Raincoast is highly motivated to expand their presence here.”
"We are very excited to partner with Raincoast Books,” says Siminovich. “We have long admired the quality of their lines and the breadth of their coverage in Canada. With their amazing sales force, we look forward to being introduced to new stores we weren't able to reach ourselves, while providing our existing customers a much faster turnaround and better customer service."
Raincoast will showcase the Fall 13 Petit Collage collection at the Toronto Gift Show August 11- 14, 2013.
For more information please visit: www.petitcollage.com
www.raincoast.com/publishers/details/petit-collage/
About Petit Collage
Started in 2006, Petit Collage is all about good design. Artist and founder Lorena Siminovich approaches all she does including authoring and illustrating over 20 children’s books with this philosophy. With her team of designers, she creates modern wall décor and home accessories influenced by midcentury design. The studio, located in an artistic hub of San Francisco, is an incubator of new ideas, art, and illustration where creating great design and pushing the envelope on new formats is the norm. Playfulness imbues every format Petit Collage touches from mobiles and mirrors to dolls, decals and more. Striving to handcraft their goods in a sustainable way using the best-quality, most forest-friendly materials available is equally important.
D.I.Y. Kids on Babble!
by Dan
Design & Typography / September 21, 2007
Design experts Ellen and Julia Lupton are interviewed about their new super-cool project D.I.Y. KIDS on Babble today:
Ellen and Julia Lupton are designers, professors, mothers and identical twins who grew up finishing each other's sentences. They've put their collaboration to work in D.I.Y. Kids--In this latest joint project, the Luptons teach design to kids through amazing projects using the stuff of daily life: paper, cereal boxes, pencils, pens, everyday clothing. More than a craft guide, D.I.Y. Kids teaches kids to design their own fun and to work art into their lives.
But design's not just for the kids! If you're more experienced, you can graduate from D.I.Y. KIDS to Ellen Lupton's excellent DIY - DESIGN IT YOURSELF, which is awesome for just about anyone who designs from their kitchen table! She also has great books for design students and professionals like SKIN or THINKING WITH TYPE!
Click here for The Babble interview with the Luptons
Click here for the great D.I.Y. KIDS website
Click here for the Lupton's Design Your Life blog
AND REMEMBER: "Design is not just about making stuff. It's about making stuff happen."