Posts Tagged ‘lorena siminovich’
BARBAPAPA!
If you were a child of the 70′s, you would no doubt know Barbapapa and his many colorful friends. We were introduced to this character a few years back when Lorena brought back a giant box of her childhood goods all the way from Argentina. You can’t imagine how excited we were to root through this box of vintage toys and books!
Originally written in French in the 1970s by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, the Barbapapa (literally “cotton candy” in French) series has been translated into over 30 languages and published all over the world!
While our library holds so many of these colorful stories, it felt only fitting to start with the first in the series, simply titled “Barbapapa”.
While Barbapapa’s story is simple (trying to fit into a town when he’s so different from others), the illustrations are so delightful to look at. Future books from the Barbapapa series feature more zany characters and LOTS of bright colors, you can almost see how much this series helped influenced Lorena and her work.
Tags: barbapapa, lorena siminovich, petit collage, vintage books, vintage children's books
Posted by annie in Vintage Picks |
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Lorena, here. I’m SO happy to share with you this new series of books that are so dear to me. These are the first two in an inventive series, You Are My Baby, published by Chronicle Books.
“You are my baby” is something I have told my daughter again and again since her birth, and was the inspiration for these fun books.
Each board book features animals with their babies in an additional “mini book” nestled inside. “Turn the pages to match the baby animals to their parents and learn some early concepts along the way.”
You Are My Baby: Safari features classic Petit Collage animals: lion, monkey, elephant, giraffe, and crocodile, while You Are My Baby: Farm has a few new designs; a Petit Collage take on a favorite toddler theme. Our friends at Chronicle Books did a FANTASTIC job bringing these books to life. We couldn’t be happier to have these Petit Collage books released!
To celebrate the release of these two new books, we are giving away a signed copy of You Are My Baby: Safari as well as a copy of our Safari Babies Beginner Puzzle. Now you can extend the reading experience by playing with our animals.
Like our facebook page: www.facebook.com/petitcollage and click on “Enter Our Giveaway” on the top menu bar for your chance to win.
Tags: board books, chronicle books, illustration, lorena siminovich, petit collage, You Are My Baby
Posted by lorena in Sales and Promos |
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The Alt Summit is practically THE conference of the year. A perfect meeting place for all bloggers, design-minded people, and companies hoping to connect with them. After missing out on their summit in SLC, I was so lucky to find out their new NYC summit was happening at the same time I was in town for NYIGF. Yet another perfect coincidence.
Here’s some highlights:
We started out very early in the morning doing some crafting at the Martha Stewart office (of all places!).
The first talk was by Tina aka Swissmiss aka Tattly aka Creative Morning founder aka Teux Deux app creator (phew!). What an inspiring speech. We then listened to Pilar Guzman, editor in chief of Martha Stewart mag and founder of Cookie magazine, and Kevin Sharkey, Martha’s right hand man, give an amazing insider’s view of Martha’s magazine and what goes into making an issue. I was able to speak with them during cocktail hour and Pilar was already familiar with Petit Collage! (gasp).
Look who showed up unexpectedly. MARTHA!
After lunch was a blogger panel. I met a couple of new forces: Jenny of Little Green Notebook and Katie of Matchbook Magazine who talked about blogger etiquette and much more. There was another panel featuring the art director of West Elm, the CCO of Tea Collection, and Etsy on “what the cool brands are doing” in today’s social media. So much good stuff.
Yours truly and Michelle, CEO of Land of Nod!
A rooftop party closed up the day’s events where I met my long time idol Jodi Levine. She created Martha’s kids magazine and worked there since 1994! I believe she’s editor at large for crafts now. She also knew our line well. I almost fainted.
What an absolutely fun packed day. I’m so glad I was able to finally attend! I hope to go again next year.
Tags: alt summit, blog, blogging, business, lorena siminovich, martha stewart, new york, petit collage
Posted by lorena in A Day in the Life, Behind the Business, Out and About |
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A serendipitous thing happened while we were in New York prepping for NYIGF. With just a casual message to her friends about being in town for a couple days, Lorena ended up being interviewed on After the Jump, a radio show by the one and only Grace Bonney, of Design*Sponge!
It’s an unbelievable interview, we all listened to it upon our return from NY. Hear about her surprising start in graphic design and how she juggles parenting and the success of Petit Collage at the same time.
Original link to Design*Sponge
Listen to it FREE on itunes
Listen to it online at Heritage Radio
*image courtesy Design*Sponge
Tags: design*sponge, grace bonney, interview, lorena siminovich, new york, petit collage, radio
Posted by annie in A Day in the Life, Behind the Business, Oohs and Aahs |
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Monkey See, Look at Me, published by Penguin, is the first American picture book I’ve written AND illustrated. I can’t tell you how happy I am to finally see it come to life!
This book was originally inspired by toddlers and their curious nature. I started working on it when my daughter was a just a little baby (she’s now 3!). So yes, some books do take forever! I can’t tell you how surreal it was to actually read this book to my own toddler daughter.
Monkey See, Look at Me by Lorena Siminovich is available at Amazon.com, B+N.com, and Indiebound.
Tags: children's book, illustration, look at me, lorena, lorena siminovich, monkey, monkey see, penguin, petit collage, picture book
Posted by lorena in Behind the Scenes, Uncategorized |
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For this year’s Renegade Craft Fair, we wanted to give fans a surprise. We decided on making a homemade photo board and holding a contest: take your photo at our booth and enter to win a gift card good for petitcollage.com!
We bought our materials at Scrap, which by the way, is quite a place to shop for art materials. Everything there is donated for reuse; one man’s trash is another man’s treasure! An overside piece of foam board, plus additional accessories were all under 5 bucks!
All in all, our photo board was a hit at the show! Here are some of our favorite cuties.
And of course, how could we forget to take a photo of us using it too? Here’s Heather and Lorena on Sunday afternoon.
Tags: behind the scenes, collage, lorena siminovich, renegade craft fair
Posted by annie in Behind the Scenes, Events |
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We are back in the office today after quite an exhausting and productive weekend at the San Francisco Renegade Craft fair. This is the only fair Petit Collage actually participates in directly selling to new AND current fans of our work since we mainly do wholesale business with stores.
I met a lot of sweet expecting couples, a lot of mom fans that had purchased our products in the past, and even a pilot who bought and made me sign a San Francisco print to remember the city he visited! Seeing all these people has given me fresh new energy to keep doing what we do.
Families had a lot of fun with our San Francisco photoboard (pics to come) and my own family got our photo taken at the Magbooth that set up next to us. Here’s my dad and my daughter being hilarious, and boring ol’ me who didn’t have a costume.
Tags: lorena siminovich, petit collage, renegade craft fair, san francisco
Posted by lorena in Behind the Business, Events, Our heart in San Francisco |
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There may not be such thing as bad press, but there is definitely such thing as incredibly awesome press!
Uppercase magazine happens to be the favorite amongst us in the studio. The day when it arrives in the office is the day we actually fight to see who gets to read it first. Well, guess what, they just did a fantastic feature on our studio and Petit Collage’s founder, Lorena. It may be the most thorough article about Lorena’s childhood and background yet!
We hope you get your copy of the latest Uppercase magazine to read if for yourself. Not only for our article, but for the back to back pages of goodness…you will not want to put it down! An interview with Lorena’s favorite illustrator, Oliver Jeffers is in the issue as well.
The quality and content of Uppercase is such a feast. We are so honored to be a part of this issue.
Tags: interview, lorena siminovich, petit collage, press, spotted, uppercase magazine
Posted by annie in Oohs and Aahs, Spotted |
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