Tipsy Studio Blog

Great artist steel? So do corporations, neighbors and co workers. Design thief’s, they are everywhere! It happens to everyone, and probably more than once. Recently Atlanta based artist Tori LaConsay’s work was copied by  H&M. With a lot of pressure from the bad publicity via social media and regretsy.com they finally tried to make it right. You can see from this photo posted on regretsy.com of Tori’s work on the left and the H&M’s version on the right how similar they really are. Read the about her complaint and updated response  here. I am really glad it worked out for Tori and brought attention to her work, but what about all of the other artist big companies had ripped from? What do you do when your work is copied? Hopefully this will make it easier to hold people accountable.

I am really proud of my Indian Heritage. I have great memories of going to the Indian Reservation with my Grandmother, Pearl. I love geometric shapes, so I am also inspired by Native American art. These are some tribal-ish prints I have been working on. I am not sure exactly where I am going with it yet, but I like it. Mini prints? Tea towels? Maybe Santa will bring me a gift card to Spoonflower!?

Kyle Durrie is a letterpress printer from Portland, Oregon, the proprietor of Power and Light Press , and a girl who had an awesome idea. To travel across North America, “teaching workshops, doing demos, and generally spreading the good word about printing the old fashioned way”. She launched a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter.com to bring this idea into fruition. Now she is traveling to a city to near you, with fully functional letterpress print shop via converted 1982 Chevy step van. Visit her site type-truck.com to learn more about her Movable Type project and where you can be a part of it!

These are new holiday cards in my Pink Pony Story shop on Etsy One of my favorite things about the holidays is getting cards in the mail from friends and family. So much more fun than bills! This one is a hand drawn card Happy Holidays choose your own color.

Show your family style with a Chuck Taylor Family Christmas Card

This Southern Christmas Card
makes a cute label or card!

Modern Candy Stripe

Hand drawn Peace, Love, Joy 2011 Christmas card

Linocut Peace Christmas card comes in four colors.

Ivory soap has a new look. Even though it has more color it still looks very generic and boring. Maybe that is what they are aiming for. I love, love, love, their original packaging! I would buy the soap just for that. The original design is interesting, on trend, and would build on their brand history. Plus, who doesn’t love the cool factor! (more…)

This is the logo I designed for Fat Eye Design. This etsy shop contains prints, textiles, and furniture. The name started as a joke. I was laughing with my friend, who is from China, about how all of my Asian friends think I look Asian. It is because I have almond shaped eyes and heavy eye lids. I told her I have some serious fat eye when I wake up and my eyes are puffy! It was funny, so I kept it. I have had a lot of people ask me what my ethnicity is, and I take it as a compliment. Have I peaked your interest? Both of my Grandparents were half Native America and half Irish. I proudly come from a long line of fat eyes!

I love to look at people’s sketch books and see how their ideas are formed. Sometimes I am even surprised at how my own ideas grow. I have found that usually my most interesting concepts are found in the journey between having an idea and executing it. This textile design started from sketches of a mostly eaten bag of grapes.
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