August Newsletter

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New Eco-friendly collection August News As always it has been really busy, but this month have been very positive, after winning the shell live wire award and receiveing a large amount of international press form top blogs and magazines for 100% Design and Top Draw, I was asked to collaborate with the show designers JAM for 100% Design. Perfect round up to a great month. 100% Design I will be on stand H114 at 100% Design 23-26th September, Earls Court, London. Also on the stand will be a good friend of mine SjGuest Designs. We would love you to come along and say hello! 100% Design collaboration At 100% design I am also collabotating with the show designer JAM to create a large installation piece with at least 30 of my wall flowers for the reception of the press lounge and the VIP room. The flowers are almost completed and range from 20cm to 90cm in diameter. They are looking beautiful with the sophisticated colour scheme chosen by the show designers! Top Draw I will also be at Top Draw 12-14th September on stand D137, Olympia, London under the umbrella of Design Gap along side other British Designers. I will be showing the interior collections, wall flowers and fashion accessories. LORNA SYSON TEXTILES IS GOING GREEN I am looking at soon becoming a completely green company therefore where possible all materials are sourced locally, the new collection is Eco-friendly using bio-degradable and recycled fabrics.	Lorna Syson wins the Shell live wire grand ideas award I had brilliant news this month, I received the shell live wire grand ideas award for my new Eco-friendly collection. Thank you to all those that voted! A preview of the Eco-friendly collection The Eco-friendly collection is being launched during London Design week 2010. This collection is inspired by the British countryside in the springtime, looking at the shapes and colours created in the wild rural hedgerows from local plants and bushes giving the collection a sophisticated colour pallet. The cushions are all made in Britain with locally sourced and eco-friendly fabrics sponsored by Camira. The fabrics are made from a mixture of wool and stinging nettles, which are completely biodegradable and have a very low carbon footprint and also 100% recycled leathers. Contact me website: www.lornasyson.co.uk email: lorna@lornasyson.co.uk phone: 07813018026 twitter: @lornasyson                     Lorna Syson becomes Design Maker with Design Factory I have been with Design Factory for a year now as an associate designer and I have received brilliant opportunities. I have now been selected by an independent panel for full designer/maker membership. Blogs and Magazines Thank you to Design Milk, Despoke, Mayflo blogs as well as Self builder and home maker magazine, Kitchens Bedrooms and Bathrooms magazine, Architects data file magazine
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Avant Garde Crafts: Extreme Sticky Note Experiments

I came across a wonderful blog today called  Avant Garde Crafts. I love this post Avant Garde Crafts: Extreme Sticky Note Experiments: "This is an amazing video!! Post-it Note experiments!"



Jo who writes the blog has take photos and written up blog about a range of wonderful crafty things from the Cockpit Arts open studio to the NTU university degree show and a range of beautiful shops in London.

Wall flowers seen in Selfbuilder and home maker magazine.

Wall flower in Architects data file magazine

Thanks to Mayflo for featuring me on their website

Check out this article my Mayflo. They have picked up on my new Eco-friendly range which is being launched at 100% Design this September.

Lorna Syson Textiles and SjGuest Designs best picks of 100% Design

Check out this Feature by Kitchens Bedrooms and Bathrooms magazine.

Sarah and I are sharing stand H114 at 100% Design this year so we're delighted to be featured together in the best picks of 100% Design 2010.

Sarah and I met at university back in 2004 and supported each other through our foundation and degree courses. It seems only fitting we are now showing for the first time together at 100% Design

We would love to meet you at the show this September so make sure you come and say hi!

Edinburgh Creative Boom interview with Steph Marsden, Craft House Concept

Check out this interview with Edinburgh based shop owner and furniture designer Steph Marsden. The Edinburgh Creative Boom has picked up on her wonderful shop, the Craft House Concept. Also see her video, promoting the shop

The first image shows the  upcycled sofa, which is talked about in the film. This sofa created by Steph for her shop combines an old Habitat sofa and my cushions. The back leaf cushions are a new colour way especially created for Steph from then new Eco-friendly fabrics. I loved how this work, it is now one of the new colours ways in the eco collection!
Steph has also been involved in Scotlands Housing Expo 2010 in Inverness. She has teamed up with HLM Architects and has kitted out their Eco-friendly home with Eco-friendly and sustainable British products. Check out this photo of two of my wall flowers teamed with the beautiful bed spread by Bluebellgrey.

Sneak Preview of the new collections photo shoot!

Here is a sneaky picture taken during the photo shoot for the new collection. Thank you to Sidney Tyrrell for kindly lending her house!
Photos were taken by Vicky from Victoria Jane Photography!

The Eco friendly collection is created from fabric made from wool and stinging nettles and where possible materials used are sourced in the UK. The collection will be launching at 100% Design this September!

Lorna Syson Textiles featured on Design Milk

Thank you to Jamie from Design Milk for featuring my new collection being launched at 100% design on the Design Milk Blog. The new collection is made from a combination of wool and stinging nettles! 

Lorna Syson puts the sting indoors. By Gemma Lewis, JAM

Thank you to Gemma from Jam, who is currently guest writing for Despoke Magazine, connected to 100% Design for writing about my new collection which is being launched at 100% Design. Check out the blog  Lorna Syson puts the sting indoors. By Gemma Lewis, JAM

Friday at the Fringe!

Friday started late but managed to get free tickets to The Sunday Defensive, best comedy we saw at the festival.  They reminded us of Inbetweeners and Mighty Boosh, they had great repore with each other which kept us thoroughly entertained and will happy go and see them again, even without a free ticket. I highly recommend going to see them while they are still performing in a ‘Portacabin at the back end of a car park,’ as they said during the show. I can’t see them staying there for long!

 

Alex and I then rushed over to see reel to real our other free ticket. For us it was biggest disappointment of the whole festival. We left early.

We then went to Tim Fitzhigham: Gentleman Adventurer. I enjoyed his personable nature, chats to people as they came in and honesty that he wonderful idea of the eco venue has leaked and damaged the electrics. His opening songs were witty and stories were engaging.

It was then a sprint over the other side of Edinburgh to see the vive le cabaret. The venue was superb and it was the perfect event to round off my Fringe experience with short snippets of several different acts. The hose Desmond O'Connor set a high standard of performance for the start with his brilliant songs, The show flowed really well and when after an hour and fifteen minuets they declared the end of the show I was shocked at how fast it went. The best act was the Australian group called Circus Trip Tease; they had everything you would want from a circus acrobatic act.