Karton, Pop-up store on Chapel St – Sustainable Packaging
Karton Pop-up Store on Chapel St in Melbourne. 228 Chapel Street Prahran VIC 3181 After brekkie at Dukes, V and I wondered up Chapel St (which didn’t feel too bogan for a Sunday). Up around where Globe, Alphaville and Gorman are, is the sweet pop-up store that is Karton. Anything in a recycled brown has always [...]
Creative Packaging
Advertising and marketing is a different kettle of fish for each country as it is for each market. With design, I’ve always found it essential to understand these differences and work alongside them, adding a bit of masala to the mix. Big generalisation coming up – but I’ve noticed, Indian marketing when done well, focuses [...]
The Sol. A designer, boutique hotel in Goa.
I have to credit and thank Apek for this awesome discovery. The Sol Road Opposite Bank of India Nerul, Goa India 403114 Tel: 91 832 671 4141 Tel: 91 95 521 32132 ajit@thesol.in December 2011, my and V’s family (young-uns only) went to the Sunburn Festival in Goa and stayed at a boutique hotel called [...]
The Design Files Open House taught me Melbourne is ready for colour.
The Design Files Open House 40 Little Napier Street Fitzroy Thursday December 1st to Sunday December 4th 2011. Open 10.00am – 5.00pm, over four days only. I’m guessing this is the one post that is going to be up on multiple Melbourne blogs at the moment. I might as well get stuck into it in that [...]
Creative Women’s Circle Book Launch
Last night we attended the CWC Book Launch for the book titled, Conversations With Creative Women. Held at the Harvest Workroom: 510- 512 Lygon Street, East Brunswick, it was the perfect venue for the event. A gorgeous night, thankfully it only started pouring down in good ol Melbourne style this morning! Huge congrats to a [...]
Interior design of Sabyasachi Store in Kolkata
Back in 2007, I used to spend hours researching Indian designers online. That was when I discovered the gorgeousness of Sabyasachi. It was his 2007 collection and I love this, this and this. Since then, he’s been overly celebrity endorsed (Aish, Vidya, Rani) and is one of the leading designers in India. Needless to say, [...]
Melbourne Pop-Up Markets. Elpple.
Pop-Up Markets 118 High Street Prahran. I recently went to the Pop-Up Markets in Prahran. There are a fair few artists there and a range of fun things to be treated with plus food too. Of all the vendors, I found Elpple (AKA Ellen Grace) and I really liked her work. She’s very quiet [...]
Conversations with Creative Women – The Creative Women’s Circle Book.
We had the pleasure of being asked to design a cover page in The Creative Women’s Circle exciting first book release – ‘Conversations with Creative Women’ for the talented fashion designer Masayo Yasuki. With a brief of designing a typographic title page Masayo Yasuki’s interview that is aesthetically sympathetic to [...]
Christmas Card Love with some of our favourite charities!
This year, we’re sharing the love with four designs, handcrafted with love for some our favourite charities: Clean Up Australia National Stroke Foundation The Holland Foundation Starlight Children’s Foundation For every 100 Christmas cards ordered, we’re giving back the love with a 10% donation. Here are the designs you can choose from as well as [...]
Montsalvat. Art in Melbourne.
Montsalvat 7 Hillcrest Ave. Eltham Victoria 3095 (03) 9439 7712 ++++++++++++++ Romance doesn’t come easily to V. Phrases such as “pulling teeth” come to mind. Thankfully, the Arrow and Kish+Co offices now have women who are with amazing men. And those men do things like; surprises, flowers, chocolate, birthday treats etc. Therefore, I [...]
Marketing & Planning an Event. This is the how to.
On August 12th, 2011, we held an artists night at our design studio in Hawthorn, in Melbourne. There were two key aspects to the night 1. Introduce people to our new company name – Kish+Co 2. Support local artists (32 in total) and create an atmosphere where art doesn’t feel intimidating and is easier to [...]
Miss Kish to Kish+Co. A Brand Refresh.
Miss Kish. The perfect name for a freelance designer. A little crazy, a little cool and as it turns out, quite a business woman. Over the 3 years, Miss Kish really sprouted. Sorry – I couldn’t think of a better word for rapid growth that sounded organic enough… So 3 years. 3 designers. 1 Manager. [...]
Photos from the big night
On August 12th – our studio transformed into an art gallery. We had 32 artists exhibit and over 400 people attend. Here are a few shots, taken with love by Sayher Heffernan. If you can spot yourself, send us an email! Click here to see some of the artists work and get in touch with [...]
It happened!
We had an amazing art exhibition to spread the news of our change over from Miss Kish to Kish+Co on Friday, 12th of August. Ultimately, we had 465 RSVPs for the night. Thank you to everyone who came on the night, we’ll be posting pics to our Facebook page and here on the blog as [...]
Hilde Thomsen’s Upcoming Exhibition!
Introducing Hilde Thomsen – a Melbourne based artist with an adept hand at illustrating humorous caricatures and breathing life into her energetic characters with a skilled swoosh of ink and watercolour. We’re lucky enough to have Hilde on board for our exhibition launch party but for a sneak peak of her work, Hilde will be part of the Brunswick street [...]
Just a little sneak peak…
Hi friends, We are so excited to share with you some background info about the talented artists we will be showcasing at our Kish+ Co Launch, on the 12th August 2011. Every day you will have the opportunity to read about a particular artist. We have 32 artists on offer- learn about them, their creative influences [...]
Link Love from Brisbane, NYC and Mr. Montgomery
Sometimes I want people to get famous, just so I can say “BAM, I mentioned them here on the blog back in ’99″. Yes, lame, I know. Anyhoo. I’ve chosen 3 artists / websites to share this week. First up in the header image are porcelain bangles I want. From Lightfoot Prints in Brisbane, not [...]
Hut 13 – yes, it’s in Armadale.
Hut 13 13 Morey Street, Armadale (03) 9500 1343 Sometimes, posts are so overdue, its ridiculous. I visited Hut 13 two weeks ago and so much has happened since. V and I fought and made up. My ankle got bunged and is now strapped. Agnes made amazing cupcake pops. We sent out invites for the [...]
Iko Iko in Wellington
Iko Iko 118 Cuba Mall Wellington 6011, New Zealand + 64 4 385 0977 Wellington is one of those cities I heart heart heart! You’ll find an Iko Iko store in Wellington as well as Auckland. It’s a design store filled with crazy, fun objects that will make you smile and laugh. While you’re there, [...]
Rowena does her Q&A at Miss Kish
Favourite munchies food Cadbury-Black forest. Best Art Gallery in Melbourne For now: No Vacancy. Tofu much? Vegie bar on Brunswick St has a ‘faux duck’ stir-fry dish. The tofu tastes, looks and feels like REAL DUCK! If I ate at Soul Mama’s all day every day, I would turn to Vegetarianism. But then I would [...]
Pom by Pomegranate launch this Saturday!!
This weekend is the exciting launch of our good friend Jacinta’s new textiles and accessories range Pom by Pomegranate at Craft Victoria’s Craft Hatch. Held on the second Saturday of every month, the Craft Hatch Market features the beautifully handcrafted products of emerging artists and designers, including stationery, homewares, textiles, accessories and much more… So [...]
Kish blast from the past.
If you enjoyed reading our previous blog (which came with our old website) but have wondered where it might’ve disappeared to, fear not! We’ve safely tucked it away so you can still have a squiz whenever it takes your fancy :)
Yuria Okamura exhibits at Red Gallery
Stillness in Silence, Shapes in Space Exhibition Dates: 15 June – 2 July 2011 Opening Night: Wednesday 15 June 6-8pm Opening Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 11am-5pm Red Gallery 157 St Georges Road Fitzroy North VIC 3068 (03) 9482 3550 We recently heard of the Yuria, via our friend Jacinta, over at Pomegranate. She’s going to [...]
NZ’s Westpac Impulsive Saver
Every now and then, I come across an idea so brilliant – I wish there was a “Share” button in my real life, so I can spam it out to everyone I know and tell them how cool it is. Of course, the share button of my life is on Facebook – and I don’t [...]
Art Melbourne 2011
On Saturday, I took Doctor D to Art Melbourne at the Royal Exhibition building in Carlton. She did die and go to heaven no joke (that was after she died and went to heaven post her first ride in an open air convertible). We caught up with the lovely Jac Jac, Aggs & Maggie Baby [...]
She Says. Raise your voice.
I recently read about She Says. If it were in Melbourne, I would be there. Unfortunately, it’s only available to the cool kids in Sydney, NY and more. Grrr. It’s about women in creative in digital departments. And about the fact that there aren’t many. It’s a chance to chat and be heard. I’m nuts [...]
Charlotte Taylor
I’ve had Charlotte Taylor on my radar for months. I have a “to blog” list of people whom I’m dying to share. She’s top of the list. Her prints have penguins, ants and elephants and more. I want. You can buy her goodness at Coggles.
Karishma Shahani
I’ve found me a super cool namesake via MasalaChai. Yes, I’m biased to colours – anything bright has me hooked. Like an epic caffeine hit. You can find her London College of Fashion page here, her facebook page here and her official site here! I cannot wait to find her famous and on net-a-porter. Epic [...]
The Library
The Library is a super cool bar in Wellington. We have to thank the gorgeous Tina in Windy Welly for the intro. You can see their afternoon tea menu here. Details Level 1/53 Courtenay Place, Te Aro 6011, New Zealand (google maps link) (04) 382 8593 For an awesome review and more food pictures, click here [...]
Spit & Polish web design workshop.
On the weekend, Agnes and I, along with a group of other willing pupils, took ourselves along to an AGDA workshop called Spit & Polish: Web Design / Before you open Photoshop, held at RMIT School of Design TAFE. At first, we didn’t know what to expect - would we be testing out the back-end of [...]
Bloesem + A giveaway!
I first learnt about Bloesem from Aggy – she shares me the coolest links and is even giving me suggestions to help me while away my couch potato Friday nights (did I just say that outloud?). Dear. Me. Meanwhile, back to coolness. I just saw that Bloesem is giving away these gorgeous silkscreen prints if [...]
I went to Heide and I got a fridge magnet.
So they don’t allow people to take any photographs at Heide. Which didn’t really float my boat. This magnet reminds me of me + me family. I thought it was normal to want to be uber safe, however, V used to have monkeys in his room at night (no, he wasn’t brought up in a [...]