A Visit to the Lilla Rogers booth Artist Alison Cole (who matched her playful work so nicely with her polka dots +orange sweater) Jennifer - an agent at Lilla Rogers + artist Helen Dardik J...
Me in Hells KitchenLourdes Sanchezs agent Len at his Insytes Design Group booth Jenna Russelle + Halla Koudsi (Such beauties - no?!) of PRNT studio at the Exhibitors Happy Hour party.A clo...
SURTEX Day 1I attended all 3 days of Surtex with my rep Shelley Brown of i2iart. As I wrote on the uppercase blog - being at the show can be an exercise in extreme image overload. By the e...
Ok! Finally getting around to posting some photos from my very fun business trip to NYC last week.Saturday evening I met up with Illustrator/ Surface Designer Helen Dardik in SOHO.Within an hour of m...
Im in New York - staying with a friend on the Upper West Side. For the next 3 days Ill be attending SURTEX: The National Surface Design show on behalf of uppercase magazine. While at The Javits Centr...
My Hudsons Bay Tea towel appeared in last Saturdays issue of the Toronto Star in the Mothers Day gift guide. Sandra Rojas-Chinni from La Merceria is featured in the piece with her list of suggested g...
All images are available for licensing through my agency i2iart.©2010 Alanna Cavanagh. All Rights Reserved.
Im working on a new surface design project this week + for inspiration have been consulting Print + Pattern 2 by Bowie Style (aka Marie Perkins - who writes the very popular blog of the s...
Salon Night with Colleen, Jen, Heather, Kim, Donna + Lynda. Donnas great baked brie + almond appetizer Heather Shaw has such great layered style. Love her wrap around thingies, + mar...
HGTV is hosting a Tea Towel Give Away.Click here to enter.©2010 Alanna Cavanagh. All Rights Reserved.
My favourite figure in this illustration is the guy on the left with the checked jacket. I based it on a snazzy one I found on the J crew website.Ive just completed a large project for the LCBO...
Thanks to Apartment Therapy + Rachel Grad for the post on the tea towels today.©2010 Alanna Cavanagh. All Rights Reserved.
A little piece on the tea towel this week in NOW magazine online + in print. Thanks Andrew Sardone.©2010 Alanna Cavanagh. All Rights Reserved.
Arren Williams of the Bay has let me know that theyll be more tea towels available next week.Click here to be put on the waiting list. Youll be sent an alert when theyre back in stock.Thanks everybod...
The summer issue of Design Lines is out! Its jammed with all sorts of great stuff plus contains the Annual Shopping Guide organized by neighbourhood. My Reading for Profit silkscreen prin...
Thanks to Jan and Earl of Poppytalk for the blog post on the tea towels this week. ©2010 Alanna Cavanagh. All Rights Reserved.
The last couple weeks have been full of hijinks from my fellow creative friends.This week my friend Liz Kingstones house is featured on House + Home Online TV. Check out her colourful space! Lov...
This is an illustration I created for an invitation to a New Years Eve Ball.I worked on this project with the talented husband + wife design team Sali Tabacchi. Melissa + Henry are the designers behi...
The tea towel I designed for the Hudsons Bay designer series is now available in select stores and on line. It is 100% linen and is 14.95.To order on line click here. ©2010 Alanna Cavanagh. All...
Shocked and deeply saddened to learn that Designer, Author, Filmmaker Hillman Curtis passed away on Wednesday. I wrote about him several times on this blog and was lucky enough to hear him speak in T...
Gregory Herringshaw is Assistant Curator in charge of the Wall coverings Department at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in NYC.Lecture is 6:30 - 7:30 at the Design Exchange tonight.234 Bay S...
Spring = A visit to comrags for a new spring frock.**News: Did you know...comrags is moving to Dundas West?!The design of this shop on Queen was described as "Country farmhouse meets urban indust...
My friend Noras book The Virtual Self came out last week.Details of the book launch next week are above.See you there.©2010 Alanna Cavanagh. All Rights Reserved.
Uppercase Magazine Issue 13 is out and its another beauty with a gorgeous cover by Eloise Renouf. The issue also contains my interview with textile designer Lourdes Sanchez.I visited Lourdes last May...
Last fall The Hudsons Bay commissioned 3 designers: Virginia Johnson, Bev Hisey + myself to create a tea towel for a limited edition series which will appear this Spring.My design is similar to my Al...
Available for licensing through my agency i2i art. ©2010 Alanna Cavanagh. All Rights Reserved.
Tulip mobile in PinkTulip mobile in Ochre + GreyThese new pattern were inspired by the work of Textile designer Lucienne Day.The texture in some of the tulips was created with pastels.Better images c...
Vancouver based Design gal Barbara Matson interviewed me for her So Canadian eh? series yesterday. You can read the interview here. Thanks Barbara.Above: My illustration Monday Morning which is inclu...
Pass 1Pass 2My assistant Canary Lord Percy oversees the drying of the prints.©2010 Alanna Cavanagh. All Rights Reserved.
I am beginning another edition of my penguin books silk screen prints!Araceli joined as my assistant + we spent a very inky Saturday at the Halo Halo studio printing the first orange layer.It was qui...
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