This week’s interview is with artist Susie Ghahremani, who runs the popular online shop boygirlparty. Susie’s a gifted painter who creates whimsical, nature-inspired artwork, which you may have seen in one of the many gallery shows she’s participated in at places like Giant Robot, Magpie, and The Wurst Gallery. Her artwork also adorns a full […]
This week’s interview is with Heidi Kenney, the creative mind behind one of the craft world’s most popular websites, MyPaperCrane. Kenney has gained a dedicated following who snap up her colorful handspun yarns, quirky anthropomorphic plush toys, and super-sweet paintings nearly as fast as she can create them. Her work is available in a wide […]
We love Lisa Lam for her U-Handblog site where she gives us the skinny on how to sew up bags properly as well as gives us good business advice. Now Lisa’s got a new blog called Craft Boom, her new craft biz blog. This post, her first in a series she explains how to market […]
This week’s interview is with Christine Haynes, co-founder (along with husband Kent Bell) of the L.A.-based fashion line Twospace. Twospace started as the dream of two art school kids living in an industrial loft above a liquor store in Chicago. The duo relocated to Venice, CA in 2004 and in the years since, their impeccably […]
In my article “Business Basics” (CRAFT 04), we take a look at the ins and outs of starting your own indie business. I interviewed around a dozen crafty entrepreneurs about how they got started and how they keep at it, but there were many valuable insights I just wasn’t able to fit into the article. […]
