Samitomoto Magnet Boards

My new design label Samitomoto is all about sparking creative fun and inspiration!

It's core is a range of funky and sleek magnetic vision boards that I've designed and manufactured.

Become a fan of Samitomoto on facebook and find out more here . I've started a drawing group there also, so anyone who loves to draw on a weekly theme is welcome to join in the fun!

The 30 x 60 cm magnet boards retail for $75 each, they are made from powder coated zinc. They are also available in 60 x 90 cm. Each board comes with five super strong and sleek little stainless steel magnets. To order phone 02 6257 4270. We are also looking to wholesale to retailers and the online shop is coming very very soon!

Use them as vision boards, notice boards, mood boards or inspiration boards!

What's on your Samitomoto board?

Using colour when framing

This is a simply delightful framing job that I recently finished for a simply delightful client!

It's so wonderful when clients trust my colour sense, as through us both working as a team, magic may well result! The results here are wonderful.

Pictured are two works by Canberra design label Schmooks. Claire of Schmooks work is so delicate, playful and intricate, we chose to keep the frames consistent, in a creamy white box frame and to vary the matt colurs, so that each one was separate yet linked together as a whole.

For the pink image we chose a dusty pink outer matt and a warm white inner matt, to tone with the pink in the image and help it to stand out. The other Schmooks print pictured has a background of blue and so we chose to leave the blue alone in the framing and selected very soft matts of warm white outer and salmon pink inner to keep the image soft. These works, although different in colour can now hang happily as a set, linked by their frames.

The other image pictured showed how a childs art can be absolutely elevated with clever framing! A striking child's art piece image in red and purple, was given a fun twist by choosing a red inner matt with a creamy white outer matt and then framing the piece in a funky purple frame- the resulting colour just sings!

Buy Claire's work here