creativity – KDD & Co

twenty titles

It’s the launch day of our twentieth book!

the Carbeth creature goes north

The Carbeth creature takes a trip to Banchory

Mimi and Gloria Onyekwere

contemporary bluestockings, Mimi and Gloria Onyekwere

inkling is out

By: KDD May 16, 2021May 16, 2021

books, creativity, Kate Davies Designs, making, publishing, textilesbooks, creativity, design, inkling, knitting, making, Milarrochy Tweed, publishing, work9 Comments

The Inkling book is published!

all the colours

By: KDD May 10, 2021May 10, 2021

color, colour, creativity, kits, knitting, Milarrochy Tweedcolor, colour, creativity, Dathan, Dathan hap, Dathan pullover, experimentation, knitting, Milarrochy Tweed, shades9 Comments

New shades for the Dathan pullover and hap.

behind the mask

accepting that not everything works out is key to the (slow) creative process

work in progress

A creative collaboration celebrating performance, parody and play

reflections on My Place

The My Place project illustrates how a challenge might turn into a creative opportunity

A chat with Lynsey Walters

By: KDD November 28, 2020

creativity, designCatherineholm, colour, creativity, design, felt, interview, Jewellery, Lynsey Walters, orla kiely, Scottish design8 Comments

Lynsey Walters is a fellow Scottish designer of whose bold, colourful work I am an enormous fan – and whose necklaces and earrings (I am thrilled to say) we are now stocking in the KDD shop. You may already be aware, of how much I love Lynsey’s work, as I seem to have worn quite…

one week to go!

By: KDD September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

creativity, design, knitting10 Years in the making, club, clubs, creativity, design, knitting13 Comments

Well, there’s just one week to go until the start of our 10 Years in the Making Club, and we are all geared up and ready for three months of knitting fun! This is the fifth club we’ve run at KDD, and each one has been a little different. Our first – the Seven Skeins…

People MAKE Glasgow

By: KDD September 11, 2020September 11, 2020

People MAKE Glasgowcreativity, making, manufacturing, People MAKE Glasgow, publishing9 Comments

Hurrah! It is People MAKE Glasgow launch day! As well as introducing you to what the book’s about, in this wee film you see one of the Glasgow makers featured in it – talented signwriter Rachel E Millar – creating the book’s cover art on one of the interior walls of the KDD warehouse. In…

An ideal shopping list

By: KDD July 8, 2020July 8, 2020

embroidery, People MAKE Glasgow, stitch, stitchingCastlemilk, community, creativity, Deirdre Nelson, embroidery, Glasgow, Glasgow life, linen, stitch10 Comments

I’m currently working hard on our People Make Glasgow book, which approaches its final stages (exciting!) and am finding the different stories the book covers about the city’s making and producing communities really inspiring, thought provoking, and often moving. As well as creative enterprises of all sizes, in fields from woodworking to whisky, the book…

the mask’s on you

Jaguar and Tiger, Chilapa, 2017. Phyllis Galembo, Mexico: Masks, Rituals (2019) This is the fourth in my series of posts about my participation in an Applied Arts Scotland / British Council Crafting Futures residency, the work I’m developing as a consequence, and the impact of the project on my own practice. You can read parts…

crafting futures: a residency of things

By: KDD May 16, 2020May 16, 2020

collaboration, Crafting Futures, creativity, making, processbymakersformakers, collaboration, Crafting Futures, creativity, exchange, making, mexico, Oaxaca, process, residency, things18 Comments

Preparing for the Crafting Futures residency reminded me of being a teenager going on “exchange.” One’s bag would always include some representative souvenirs for the family one was visiting: a tin of biscuits or confectionery, a small book about one’s local area. I wanted to bring gifts for my compatriots on the Crafting Futures residency…