weekly finds {tiendita de la semana}: three potato four
One of my favorite designers friends, Ms. Ivana, posted in her cool blog this really cool vintage shop called “three potato four“, that sells everything from a vintage typewriter to vintage classroom posters. So if you are looking for a cool place to do your christmas shopping this is the place.
Una de mis diseñadoras favoritas, Ivana, puso en su blog esta tienda web, “three potato four“. que vende artículos vintage como máquinas de escribir y tarjetas con ilustraciones vintage. Si estas buscando regalos únicos para estas navidades este es la tienda para ti.
Image Credits: three potato four
makeover shows
I’m usually not a big fan of makeover shows, well maybe home makeover shows from HGTV, but the show “Mary: Queen of Shops” from BBC has really captured my attention. The thing I love the most about this show is that the host, Mary, uses innovative graphic & interior design to help out this small businesses. My favorite episode so far is the one about this couple where the wife is also the designer/seamstress of the shop, and I loved how Mary highlighted her custom, handmade designs to appeal to customers. The store also carries other clothing found by the husband, but in order for customers to know what is handmade & what is found, they labeled each garment with either a tag that says “handmade &” or “& found”, which I think its pretty clever. The original name of the store was “Comfort & Joy”, which totally didn’t fit the store, so with the help of their children they picked “handmade & found” which I totally love. Another one of my favorites part is how she decided for the designer/seamstress to have her studio open for viewing that way customers can see the artist in action.
No soy muy fanática de shows de “makeover” pero encontré este show en BBC que se llama “Mary: Queen of Shops” donde la presentadora ayuda a pequeñas tiendas de ropa británicas, que estan a punto de la bancarrota, a renovar su imagen y sus estrategias de mercadeo. Mi episodio favorito es de esta pareja que tiene una tienda pequeña donde la esposa diseña y cose sus creaciones. Me encantó como la presentadora dió a relucir las creaciones hechas a mano por la dueña usando un nuevo nombre para la tienda “handmade & found” y usando diseño gráfico para darle una nueva imagen a su tienda. La presentadora también abrió el estudio de la dueña para que sus clientes puedieran verla en acción cosiendo sus creaciones.
Image Credits: Handmade & Found
