&company

Hello! I’ve been wanting to let you all know about something that is worth knowing about and now seems a good time. My friends at &company are embarking on a journey to create a workshop for Sydney’s creative community and they need some support to make it happen. &company is a Sydney based design studio that works with emerging designers to bring new and inspired products to market. More recently they’ve been running an amazing range of short courses from their pop-up space up in The Rocks, from jewellery, ceramics, and wood work to animation and documentary making. You can see more about &company and the fabulous things they do here.

&company was started by the very inspiring Anna Lise De Lorenzo who I’m happy to say is also my friend and it is so amazing to see her vision for &company that we discussed many years ago over a couple of beers grow and develop into what it has become today. My first range of Big Toast greeting cards was launched with &company at The Finders Keepers design and art market in 2010 and I’ll always be grateful that Anna Lise gave me a bit of a push when I was procrastinating about it! It gave me a deadline to make it happen and that was the start of a new direction for me. So some of us need encouragement and belief, and some of us need space, tools, equipment and some old fashioned know-how to turn our ideas into reality, or to just dabble in something new and have some fun, and this is where &company’s workshop comes in. Their vision is to set up a fully equipped workshop that anyone can access and they’ve launched a crowd funding campaign through Pozible to make it happen. You can click here to see what it’s all about and how you can help.

Have a read and if you like the sound of it you can pledge your support. Then if you are near The Rocks you can stop by their pop-up shop and get your photo taken like this extremely dorky one of me!  

Photo by Meng Koach and top image by &company