It's a Long Story

FUN FACT: Despite releasing two collections since 2018 as the Designer Maker of After Midnight, I am a print design graduate! So, if I'm a print designer, why am I only releasing solids? This is a good AND legit question! In short, it's pretty expensive to have custom fabric printed in the UK and some companies also have minimum orders so until I feel my indie brand has enough stability, it will probably be on the back burner for the foreseeable future. HOWEVER! Just because I'm not making and releasing them, doesn't mean that I'm not working on designs! Behold, in the way Haenuli had a 'Design Graveyard', I have what I like to call the 'Atelier Archive' which is basically a folder of sketches/ illustrations/ patterns/ fashion illustrations/ things I have worked on to different levels, but have not made it onto fabric... yet! Today I want to share a design that I worked on last year.  Funnily enough, what triggered this was a pair of m...

"Have you ever dreamt of stepping into a painting? To become completely immersed in the work before you, making reality around you fade into the new world created by the artist? This is where you can!" -  https://www.vangoghexpo.co.uk/ NOTE: please click all the pictures, they're WAY better when enlarged! :) Before hitting up Van Gogh, we had afternoon tea at the Yorkshire Bar & Grill. I absolutely LOVE the aesthetic of the place and my first thought was: 'we should have a meet here!' Unfortunately we did not get the 'Yorkshire Afternoon Tea' we had hyped ourselves up for (on the walk there, Claire and I were discussing what Yorkshire elements there might be) and we were told that they no longer did the one illustrated on the Groupon offer and the image should have been changed long ago. While a little disappointing that the tea wasn't as advertised, it was still delicious (I'm still thinking about that big macaron and A g...