aroha&friends
a new print for this week, the Arohanui cushion, we have also printed it on a tee and paper.
we were invited to take part in a local fashion fundraiser for family works, a non profit organisation. we were happy to get involved but were not happy with the music being the wrong ttrack, willie d went to the trouble to make an exclusive track but some tech head pressing play on the cd player wouldn’t let him switch over to his music.
Maori All Blacks celebrate their centenary schedule undefeated! Ka Pai!
while sylvain was here one of his missions was to make these glass works he ahd been developing before leaving france. sylvain met up with wanganui glass artist katie brown and after a hui sylvain was on the bus to wangas’ to make it happen and these are the results.
Syvain Descazot and partner Anouk arrived in HB around october last year and approached us to use our printing department. we obliged and soon after had the pair working for us and after some six months the couple are returning to france. we like to think of it as our artist in resistance program, like woofing for creative travelers. we would like to keep the program running but are not sure if we will find as great a pair as these two french brettanians.
it’s hard to get some descent mags here in the bay. apart from the supermarket not too many specialty outlets exist anymore so we thought it a good idea to get some of our favourites that we can’t get anywhere else in store.
we end up doing a few custom print combos and here are a several pania variations.
here are some more images from Ray Turner taken during the Hastings Blossom Parade in the 60′s
We have produced these photographic prints from a local inventor and budding photographer Mr Turner. Shot around Hawkes Bay during the 60′s at Marine Parade and the once famous Hastings Blossom Parade.
I printed this design on some nice lightweight hemp fabric we had lying aound the store. I thought black would be nice and after printing decided that a couple of cushions could be choice and here we have the result that i’m pretty happy with. I then started pondering whether i should do some more items like this and decided that yes i should. I had a think about branding – apparently i need to have a brand and one that stuck is Aroha&Friends. So there you have it, the humble beginnings of a little product range from Aroha&Friends. Sweet. Now i just have to come up with the rest of the collection.
