It
is official: Freshly Printed Studio
is open! Freshly Printed, Jen and I
(Lauren) now have a bricks and mortar location, complete with a studio space
and retail shop to call home. The two of us have been in talks of having a
studio together since the early days of our friendship and couldn’t be happier
that it is now a reality.
With both of us finding inspiration in our local
flora and fauna, notions of home and comfort and Canadiana, and exploring
themes of functionality and nostalgia in our work it has always seemed like an
obvious choice for us to collaborate. Here at Freshly Printed Studio Jen will be running her company Freshly Printed, a line of home textiles
that the two of us started during our last year in school, and that Jen has
been running and designing for solo since 2011 (Check out Freshly Printed’s website and online store by following the link on
the right). Meanwhile I will be working on my own creative endeavors that have
yet to be named…or really defined into any specific form…but will be soon…I
hope! What is certain however is that those common themes and inspirations will
remain constant and act as the foundation for everything we do here at Freshly Printed Studio.
While we will both be running separate websites
for our independent companies, this site will act as a place for us to fill you
all in on our collaborations, and ongoing projects and events of Freshly Printed Studio as a whole. In
the past couple of months setting up the store we have built our first ever
table (which took about six tries), obsessed over creating the perfect in
studio kitchen (questionable priorities on our part) and built a custom sink in
an attempt to turn a space with no water into a print studio…which requires a
lot of water (or so we thought!). We have been designing new prints and
products and have been meeting all kinds of other crafts people and artists. Both
of us like to learn through doing, which results in a lot of trial and error
and its fair share of humour, but we both love a good laugh so get excited because
we will be sharing it all here!
-L