October 31st, 2008

The little animals of Monique are nice, we noticed that many people like them, plus it is easy to create many kinds of products with their simple design. So, the next idea that came naturally to our minds is : why not making a product line based on these round animals, and sell them ?
And so here are the options we’re facing :

1. To find manufacturers in Asia for a mass production and sell through a distributor in France/Europe who will take care of the stock, distribution, and marketing, but .. they’re not cheap.
2. To find local manufacturers, and sell the products ourselves. Which gives us a better margin, but also more logistic work and less time for creating new products.
3. To sell a licence of our design to a company with their own production and distribution network. The easiest way to start, but (ofcourse) the package comes with its inconvinient points too ..

It is a problem to find a reliable manufacturer. Monique who’s an Indonesian, naturally went to Indonesia to find ones, but like she thought might happen, knowing well the country and the way people work there, she didn’t find anything match to our expectations.
We can do like everybody else, outsourcing in China, but we will need a lot of preparations since we have no contact person there. So maybe later ..
For the moment, we choose to work with “nearby” suppliers. Less fuss, more quality ..

Categories: La société | Tags: Le projet | 1 Comment

Photo holder

October 28th, 2008

And here is the photo-holder version of the little cow. These round animals are cute, but it’s even better if we can make use of them. Made all by hand, I don’t know how it’s done, but it seems so .. perfect. The ball is cut into 2 parts and it has magnets in the middle of each part.

Categories: Deco, Zanies | Tags: animaux, Deco, Zanies | 2 Comments

T shirts

October 26th, 2008

I had enough with blank white tshirts, and I thought of putting some drawings on it. This way I won’t meet anyone in the street with the same tshirt. But the things is, if I miss my drawings, it costs me more than a piece of paper !
Cannot wait for summer!

Categories: Sumi-e, Textile | Tags: Textile | 4 Comments

Mingei spirit

October 25th, 2008

Today I’ve been to Quai Branly Museum, to see the exhibition of “Mingei spirit in Japan”. This exhibition shows the stong link between the traditional arts and crafts and the design in Japan.

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Cow lamp

October 23rd, 2008

Declension of the little cow on a lamp, a bit of country-style atmosphere at home.

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Microboy

October 21st, 2008

A part of my old series of illustration, which I made about 10 years ago. It called Microboy, and like we could guess from these 2 images … it was kind of silly.