Designer’s Showcase

Takae Mitzutani
Takae is originally from Japan but has been living in UK for 11 years. She is a ceramics designer and her design inspiration comes from her everyday life in the UK. She finds new ideas from the lifestyle, the landscapes, the language and the “British-ness”. She thinks her products would have been very different if she was living in Japan! Takae has a wonderful way of looking at the world and her ceramics are beautifully designed and made.

Click here for Takae’s Salty Sailboat Salt and Pepper Shaker.

Haniboi
Haniboi is an illustrator and product designer based in London. He enjoys the process of capturing creative ideas and incorporating them into his own product. He has mastered many creative disciplines such as product design, motion graphic and typography. In 2008 he launched his own label “Haniboi Co. Ltd.” to create design-focused, everyday, quirky objects.

Click here to see Hanniboi’s handy 80’s cassette inspired wallets.

Petra Boase
Top British talent Petra Boase has a passion for collage. Her designs have grown from a core of collage canvases. Made principally by hand in the U.K, each mug is invested with a hotchpotch English eccentricity that makes her work so distinctive. Petra lives in Norfolk with her husband, Russell, and their three children, Florence, Billy and Olive.

Click here to see Petra’s country punk mugs.

Lost at Sea
Lost At Sea are a young design duo creating handmade yet affordable design-led jewellery, inspired by everything from mid-century style and classic tattoos to the British countryside. They use natural materials and a muted colour pallette so that their work maintains a vintage aesthetic with a contemporary feel.

Click here to see their quirky medal badges.

Hommin
Hommin is based in Stockholm. They are dedicated to simple design, functionality, and creating product design that focus on emotion and memory. They research on people’s hidden desires and transform them to tangible objects.

Click here to see Hommin’s cute bird bookmarks.

Matt Pugh
Bath based designer Matt Pugh designs and produces contemporary furniture and accessories. With longevity in mind he creates timeless, well made, unique pieces from quality sustainable materials combining simple detailing with rich colours and playful designs. Choosing natural materials as they have a timeless quality and have minimum impact on the environment. Each piece is designed and made to last more than a life time.

Click here to see Matt’s beautiful hand-crafted Walnut Owl.

Yellow Owl Workshop
This workshop specialises in hand made, artisan stationery and items for the home. Based in San Francisco,California – the Workshop creates limited edition paper goods, rubber stamps, pendants, wedding correspondence, ceramics and paintings. A brand with strong integrity in both aesthetic and practice, Yellow Owl Workshop create their eco-lovin’ products by using non-toxic water-based inks, 100% PCW recycled paper and their own mitts for screen printing. Ready for the gallery wall yet formatted for everyday enjoyment, each article is made by hand with expertise and care. Yellow Owl Workshop is Christine Schmidt, designer and author, and her husband Evan Gross, her gal Friday.

Click to see Yellow Owl Workshop’s quirky Colour wheel pendant , Air/Water pendant and Winterscape rubber stamps.

Showpony
Showpony was founded in 2006 by Emma Henderson. Emma had recently graduated from the Product Design class at the world-famous Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Before that, she worked in the film industry and studied sociology. The road to Showpony was an interesting one! She started screen printing after leaving art school and was quickly hooked. Showpony’s new studio in Govan is now home to a dedicated print room where much of Showpony’s products are handmade.
Emma wanted Showpony to be about concept-based design, for it to be sustainable, and above all, fun and interesting.
Wherever possible, Showpony uses organic and Fair Trade materials.

Click to see Showpony’s gorgeous vintage inspired tote print bags.

Ben Shuar
Born in Bangkok, Ben Shuar (aka ‘Benja’) grew up in Australia and has been based in London for the last decade. With a background in graphic design, his screen-prints have a style that is bold and contemporary. He uses minimal colours; black and bright neons which punch their way through and demand your attention. Ben finds inspiration in nature, history and the bright lights of the big city where he feels most alive.

Click here to see Ben’s limited edition graphic screen prints.

Julie LaBulle (Giulia Dolci)
Julie LaBulle is an italian illustrator and graphic designer. She was born with a pencil in her hands and she lives in her own world, populated by magic creatures and furry animals. Her work encompasses graceful handmade illustrations where subtle colours and detailed patterns create suggestive emotions.

Click here to see Julie’s beautifully illustrated notebook series.

Alessandro “Deva” Barbieri
Deva is an italian visual artist. A controversial graffiti artist and “progettista grafico” who gather both experiences together with the aim of creating something forward-looking. Currently living in London with his girlfriend and artist Julie LaBulle, he’s working on personal projects who encompass paper/digital publications, illustrations and works of art.

Click here to see Deva’s geometric notebooks.

Alexander Hulme
Alexander Hulme is a London based designer with eye for the extraordinary within the mundane. Passionate about bringing conceptual thinking into industrial objects his work spans art to architecture . His studio practise is based in east London where he pursues a combination of his open projects and commissions.

Click here to see Alex’s Pocket Pencils.

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At Our Shop we are open to new contributors. If you are a budding artist or designer who would like an opportunity to place your product(s) in Our Shop, please email us at: info@ourworkshop.co.uk with photos of your work and a little intro about you.