Looking for Love...

Thank you to 100% Design for featuring us on their Valentines blog! But don't worry if you think you're not going to have time over the weekend to pick up the perfect present, we can send you E-vouchers for your special someone, so they can choose something perfect just for them!

Very Lucky end to 2010

The week before christmas was very exciting for me thanks to some wonderful people in the design world. First up I was delighted to have won the Christmas compition run by www.modenus.com in conjunction with Anglepoise. The light arrived a couple of days before Christmas and I am itching to put it all together and set it up but it's still packed up in the box waiting to go down to the studio in London. I won a blue version of the light below. Turns out we have an original style anglepoise from the 60's at dads house, I will have to search for that at home!

I also want to say a massive thank you to the people at Selvedge magazine. I received a lovely Christmas tea towel made from organic and fair trade cotton by the company Gossypium called the 12 days of Christmas. Again this is heading down to the studio with me as I love filling my creative space with beautiful items.

And finally my third Christmas treat came from 100% Design. I received this great Christmas gift wrap was some of the iconic images and products from 100% Design this year. You can even seen the Anglepoise Light!

Christmas Time

Thank you to the fabulous press team at 100% Design for featuring the eco-friendly wool and stinging nettle ruffle cushion in their christmas gift guide this year.

Also a big thank you to International Life magazine which has featured my work in their business section on the website, the newsletter and also their New Year addition of the magazine!

Open Studio's cockpit arts and Clerkenwell

Last week I took my Friday afternoon off and headed over to the Hoborn Cockpit arts and Clerkenwell open studios with Craft Central.

I must admit, cockpits arts blew me away, the quality of work for all of the artist was amazing. I bought some Christmas presents from Thornback and Peel, gorgeous birthday cards from Claire Coles. I also loved the papercut by Nahoko Kojima and ceramic goldfinches by Shan Annabelle Valla.

I bumped into Lauren Moriarty, whose work was recently in crafts magazine. Lauren has been a massive help to me throught my final year at Loughborough University and since setting up on my own. She creates so great lights which have moving butterflies and has recently moved into using more traditional materials and techniques which she exhibited at 100% Design this year.

Shan Annabelle Valla's goldfinches

Shoe Tree by Claire Coles

Lauren's Studio

I headed over to Made In Clerkenwell, the studio and saw jewellery designer Laura Gravestock, I last met Laura at a contemporary design far in Islington. I love angles in her promise collection.

Laura Gravestock, Promise Collection

Live in Style Magazine

Check out the wall flowers being featured in the Editors choice for Live in Style Magazine

100% Design Set Up

I have spent the last two days setting up my joint stand at 100% Design. I will be sharing stand H114 with fellow designer and friend SjGuest Designs.
We had a rocky start, I turned up to find our whole stand painted a dark grey instead of just one wall! I range Sarah to let her know she maybe turning up to a stand looking quite different than she anticipated... all she really said was "you have to laugh" which was a relief but thankfully the event organisers were on the ball and the two walls which should have been left white were repainted before Sarah arrived at the stand! Check out the very grey and small looking stand!
The stand is now looking beautiful and with our furniture and textiles it makes the stand look quite a bit larger than when we arrived.
I have also completed the flower installation in the press and VIP rooms at 100% Design. The one in the press room spans a wall of 4 meters and the colours tone in really well with the other collaborators for the space so I am very excited to see all the lights on and it completely finished tomorrow!


100% Design is at Earls Court 2 and the opening times are:

Thursday   10.00- 21.00

Friday       10.00 -19.00

Saturday   10.00 - 18.00

Sunday     11.00- 17.00

Top Drawer 2010

I have just arrive back home after my first Top Drawer experience which I must say was a very positive one! I was showing with Design Gap in a Made in Britain section and also certified Product GB and Eco-friendly by Top Drawer

I am now stocking more shops in Surrey, London, Manchester and The Scottish boarders! I was also showing a couple of new product which turned out to be extremely popular, these included the large 100% wool eco-friendly heart and the smaller flowers and hearts in the picture frames, both products not yet on the website!

Unfortunately the event ended with me coming back home on the train and leaving my suitcase on the train with all my favourite exhibition clothes in it! Hope I get in back in time for 100% Design, at least I didn't have my laptop in the bag!

Lorna Syson Textiles spotted in Modern Carpets and Textiles Magazine

Wall flowers seen in Italian Glamour Magazine

Thank you to Anna for creating a whole page feature on my wall flowers in the Italian Glamour Magazine.

Also check out Italian In City magazine, their feature mentions Lorna Syson Textiles and Sarah-Jayne Guest

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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