About us
Pin It Creatives Inc. was founded in 2007. Our first products were for the stationery industry, working with artists from London and LA. Today we work with new and established artists from across the UK, US and Central Europe. We are expanding into fashion, retail and product design, publishing and designing bespoke ranges for retail organisations. Today’s retail world is a difficult one, and the pressure to create beautiful & individual... Read More
How to present Artwork to Creatives Inc: A quick guide!
Pin It In order for us to get the best out of your collection, here is a basic outline of how you can make our clients stop & take notice! Think about what it is that will make your designs sell. 1: Be prepared to wear 2 hats…one for your artistic output, and one for commercial purposes. Try not to send us just a link to your website, often, artwork is dispersed over many pages and it is difficult to make an initial assessment. If your... Read More
CREATIVES INC @ NEW DESIGNERS
Pin It Creatives will be one of the companies on hand at New Designers Part I & II, advising on portfolio presentation. Looking forward to meeting the future faces of creativity. We will be there on Friday 29th June between 1 and 6pm, and FRIDAY 6th JULY between 1 and 6 pm supporting ARTSTHREAD – The website supporting Art & Design Graduates, free to upload your portfolio. DO IT NOW!! New Designers 2011 – Press Quotes: New... Read More
Artist Profile: Belinda Chen
Pin It Belinda Chen is a freelance illustrator and printmaker based in London. Her passion for drawing and art began from a very early age. Growing up in a small family run ceramic factory in Taiwan. Belinda imagined the factory as a giant playground. It has inspired her to create from childhood striving to create dream-like utopia to be enjoyed by both children and adults of all ages. She is particularly fond of character design, collage, narrative... Read More
Artist Profile: Mat Miller
Pin It Hi, my name is Mat. I’m an illustrator and designer from the UK working in the realms of vector illustration, photo montage/manipulation and mixed media. My work is influenced by contemporary graffiti and lowbrow art along with many things from the natural world. I would define my work as mixed media since I use a great variety of techniques to bring the final image together. These include sketches both in graphite and ink, watercolour... Read More
Artist Profile: Ed J Brown
Pin It Ed J Brown is a freelance illustrator from the Midlands but is now based in Manchester, England. He is very passionate about drawing and exploring. Ed’s work takes its aesthetic cue from screen printing, he likes to create eye catching images using bold, limited colour palettes and adding lots of hand made texture. He works both digitally and also paints using acrylic. Always available for all work, editorial, commissions, exhibitions... Read More
Artist Profile: Lauren Hom
Pin It Lauren Hom is a designer and illustrator based in New York City. Some of her favorite things include: tiny paint brushes, tangerine nail polish and peanut butter straight from the jar. Born and raised in sunny Southern California, she spent her afternoons cluttering the sidewalk with chalk drawings of flowers, puppies, and other adorable crap. From the age of three, she knew she wanted to be some kind of artist. She moved to New York City... Read More
Artist Profile: Alison Fairbairn
Pin It Illustrator Alison Fairbairn creates quirky and cute images with a sense of fun and whimsical feel. She is from London but her half-Japanese background has been an influence on her style of work, growing up with manga and being inspired by the colours and lines of Japanese art and cartoons. She is a largely self-taught artist so loves to experiment with different techniques including digital and watercolour. However, she is always drawn... Read More
Artist Profile: Sarah Anne Fielding
Pin It I’m an Illustrator/Designer who wants to fill this grumpy world with a bit more HAPPY. My artwork is available for licensing and I’m available for Freelance Work and Commissions! I’m lucky enough to have worked with a wide variety of clients from lovely individuals wanting a special illustration to designing for PriceWaterhouse Coopers and Transport for London. Send me an email with details of what you have in mind and... Read More
Artist Profile: Ria Dastidar
Pin It Ria Dastidar – aka Uberpup makes playful, surreal colorful illustrations often featuring her own character creations. The illustrations produced are chaotic in style and unrestrained. Influences include, satirical comedy, Indian textiles, and day-glo cartoon shows. Ria lives and works in London, producing illustrations for animation, textiles, print and licensing. Recent clients include British Airways, Aerial 7, Wikia, and The NHS. ... Read More
Artist Profile: Sarah Ray
Pin It Sarah is an illustrator who lives and works in sunny Birmingham. She likes to use a range of pencils, pens and crayons to create her images and she also screen prints her illustrations. Her drawings are based on everyday objects and animals which give her work a bizarre and endearing quality. As well as working on illustration commissions, Sarah also creates limited edition screen prints, books, greetings cards and a range of products which... Read More
Artist Profile: Ashley Percival
Pin It My name is Ashley Percival and I’m a freelance illustrator from the UK. Since graduating from Falmouth University I have had my designs licensed by Urban Outfitters and Forever 21 for T-shirts. I have had my work licensed by other companies such as Iphone and been featured in magazines including Uppercase and Lamono. My artwork is suitable for all ages it has been described as unique, fun, whimsical, and quirky. I get most of my... Read More
Artist Profile: Emma Rees
Pin It I am an Illustrator currently residing in the city of Derby. I love and live for illustration and like to challenge the way in which illustration can be made. I love creating textile pieces, painting, drawing, experimenting. I like to create a sense of place and a menagerie of characters. ... Read More
Artist Profile: Calico Melton
Pin It Since graduating in 2010, Calico has gained a commercial awareness whilst still balancing a creative and sensitive approach to her intricate illustrations. Inspired by childrens books, in composition as well as image, Calico builds images in a way that combines analogue and digital techniques. But in short: Colour, compostition, and cuteness is what really counts. ... Read More
Artist Profile: Rebecca Marshall
Pin It Rebecca is a doodler extraordinaire and says what she feels through observations & experiences in her very own style of creative writing. Whether it be her own words or from films & lyrics – its all out there in big felt tip pen! She lives up North somewhere! Her personal philosophy is as follows: I love the alphabet and would marry it if I could. I believe in niceness and the general good. You can’t beat a good set... Read More
Artist Profile: Sarah Fiorenza
Pin It I always loved writing , drawing and making things from a young age. I learnt how to sew from my mum who always made stuff for us growing up and took lots of creative inspiration from her grandmother who was a keen crafter, writer and ceramic painter. I studied Silversmithing and jewellery and worked as a fashion jewellery designer before turning my hand to teaching and writing. I love creating patterns especially for the children’s... Read More
Artist Profile: Liselle Davis
Pin It Liselle is a surface designer who is based in East London, she often spends her time drawing, day dreaming and researching, her love for retro imagery, vintage patterns and beautiful objects has lead her to create a range of vibrant prints which have a simplistic and modern feel. After graduating from London College of Communication with a BA (Hons) in Illustration Liselle has created prints for leading UK high street companies and niche... Read More
Artist Profile: Amy Bradley
Pin It Amy offers illustrations and design work for greeting cards, children’s books and general publishing. Her work is hand drawn making use of digital techniques to create colourful illustrations. She loves to add spots, dots, strips and patterns to her work and you will often find the use of collage and ink. Amy’s signature style is quirky, fun, decorative and energetic mixed with a unique and sophisticated colour palette. Amy’s... Read More
Artist profile: Sam Downend
Pin It Nice to meet you, My name is Sam and I draw paint and occasionally make things. I graduated from Bath School of Art and Design in 2010, and ever since I have continued to fill sketchbooks with paint and pen. After leaving university I moved from house to house and am now based in sunny Wales. I love colourful, strong, simple imagery, inky splodges and mistakes. I draw inspiration from every and anything, whether it be the people I meet places... Read More
Artist Profile: Andrea Willis
Pin It Born in Yorkshire; and running her own store in Scarborough. Although Andrea’s work lends itself to a broad style of product in the home wares industry, she specialised in Handmade cards. Andrea made the leap into being published when Creatives Inc. walked into her shop and said ‘we want all of these’. A recent interview for progressive Greetings magazine she voices her inspiration; “I decided to create a very British look... Read More
Artist Profile: Rachel Cave
Pin It Based in leafy North London Rachel creates beautiful patterns for fashion, stationery, homewares and interiors. Inspired by Scandinavian retro and vintage patterns she designs bold and exciting patterns with a modern twist. Rachel has over 6 years experience with providing designs to leading high street companies in the UK and US as well as working directly with companies to create unique and imaginative patterns for products. ... Read More
Artist Profile: Carmen Mok
Pin It My name is Carmen Mok, a self-taught illustrator currently live in Niagara Falls, Canada. I landed my first commissioned assignment in 2008 and became a full-time illustrator in 2010. Since then my works have been published in different magazines across Canada and USA, and have published and sold over 100 of my designs as greetings cards to retailers from USA, Canada and UK . On top of my creative skill, my other skill such as Day Dreaming Meeting... Read More
Artist Profile: Jane Frost
Pin It Born in Lincoln in 1973. Currently living in the Creative County – Staffordshire. Attended Lincoln Art College, and the University Of Central Lancashire. “During my period at Art College, I learn’t a crucial lesson that ‘art and design’ is about freedom of expression, don’t be afraid to branch out into the unknown, there are no rules… it’s simply finding an area within this field that you feel most comfortable. The... Read More
Artist Profile: Amy Mingkwan
Pin It Amy Mingkwan is a Print Textiles and Surface Pattern Designer, currently based in the lovely landscape of Cambridgeshire. Recently graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with First Class Honours in BA (Hons) Textiles, Amy is eager to set foot in to the Textiles industry, creating lively and quirky print design for cards, furnishing fabrics, crockery as well as fashion prints. Inspired by designers and companies such as Anthropologie,... Read More
Artist Profile: Emma Barratt
Pin It Curently working in London as a graphic designer/illustrator. Emma’s Outlook: I like veggie sushi, Russian dolls, samurai types, olives (esp the black ones), hot spicy foods, the smell of tar, old cars, flossing, my hands, tattoos, teapots, daydreaming, impulsiveness, felt, escaping London, snow, my own company, potato cakes, cheese and beans, jelly belly beans, mountains, Austria, imagination, kitsch and kawaii, milky tea, Japanese... Read More
Creatives Inc Studio Artwork
Pin It Creatives Inc not only works with great independent artists, we also design our own work inhouse for any project required. We have great ideas [we did Queen for a Day back in 2007], and continue to develop designs that are individually placed for your company. We can design for any medium, and are able to create complete lines for apparel to Kitchenware. We also buy in artwork to which we own the copyright and which we can reproduce for... Read More
Artist Profile: Yenty Jap
Pin It Yenty Jap is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator that currently based in Indonesia, loves to travel and took her education with Advance Diploma in Malaysia and graduated with Bachelor of Graphic Design in New Zealand. Although she still works in the graphic industry, she puts more focus on her illustration work. Her greatest influences are Hayao Miyazaki and Norman Rockwell. Her works now are range from pattern design, card design, wall... Read More
Artist Profile: Hannah Latham
Pin It Hannah is a designer currently based in Manchester, having graduated from The University of Huddersfield with a BA(Hons) in Textile Design in 2010. During her degree she focused on printed design, both screen and digital, with hand embellishment. Since leaving university and cannon-balling into the deep blue sea of design, Hannah has begun to diversify within her exploration of print, producing designs for greetings cards, for instance,... Read More
Artist Profile: Laurie Woodruff
Pin It Laurie has worked with Creatives Inc. for the past few years, since she left University College Falmouth. She successfully produced a collection of stationery that was nominated for a Best New Range in the Henry awards in 2009, from a submission over over 16000 designs. Not bad for a first go at greetings cards, and based one design that we saw hanging on the wall at her end of year exhibition. Now based back in the chilly north of England,... Read More
Artist Profile: Amandine Noyé
Pin It I’m a French born illustrator and printmaker with a background of fashion design based in London. I was raised in the lovely Champagne region in France before moving to Paris for my studies in art and fashion. I’m a very curious person, my inspiration can come from everything as I pay attention to all the details around me. I even used to see prints where there is none. So the nature and my world travels are also an infinite... Read More
Artist profile: Tanya St Leger
Pin It I produce mixed-media work, which consists of free machine-stitched drawings on discarded rubbish which is cut through to expose a photo beneath. My work is strongly based on the idea that we are so conditioned to seeing rubbish on streets and in our cities that we don’t even notice it anymore. I see myself continuing to work with this theme and creating more pieces for exhibitons. Although my work has a strong message, it has the potential... Read More
Artist profile: Marie Perkins
Pin It Marie Perkins studied Graphic Design and Illustration before going into hand painted ceramics, and then later textile design. In 2006 Marie created the blog ‘Print & Pattern’ and has since published a book of the same name. It was this success and a love of greetings cards, stationery, and paper goods that led her to leave her full-time textile design job and take the plunge to go freelance under the name ‘inkjet designs’. She... Read More
Artist Profile: Angela Mayers
Pin It I am a freelance Illustrator and Pattern designer based in the midlands and have graduated, last year from Loughborough School of art and design. At the moment I draw a lot of my inspiration from an eclectic mix, including: copious amounts of tea and diet coke, nature, animals, textures, colours, fabrics in fashion, conversations, narrative, romantic notions (none mushy) funny people, nostalgia from my childhood, sugar, sweets and the usual... Read More
Artist profile: Tamara Csengeri
Pin It I am Illustrator based in Amsterdam. I graduated from “Shenkar” school of design in 2002 and took additional courses in textile design and art at Parson Paris Beaux Art. Since then, I’ve been working as a graphic and textile designer with a strong focus on newborn and children’s clothing as well as stationery, greeting cards and paper goods. Recently I have setup a small business specializing in wall decorations... Read More
Artist Profile: Dee Raynor
Pin It Hi Im Dee! I’m a designer and illustrator based in Nottingham. I enjoy working with traditional media, drawing and tinkering with Photoshop and Illustrator. Inspiration and interests vary from doodles, anything handmade or vintage, handwriting, photography, films, a variation of music, random conversation, Alison Carmichael, Orla Kiely, and people in general to coffee, and wandering. I’m now finishing the second year of my... Read More
CREATIVES INC: DIAL@PG LIVE 29-30 MAY 2012
Pin It Progressive Greetings Live, the only trade show dedicated to greeting cards will, for the first time at its 2012 show, incorporate ‘DIAL@PG Live’ – a section for Design, Image & Art Licensing companies. In addition, debuting at this fourth PG Live will be an Artists’ Quarter, where individual artists and designers will be able to showcase their work. CREATIVES INC will be showcasing their collective of artists work and invite... Read More
Welcome Retailers!
Pin It New Designers 2011 was a resounding success in terms of the connections we made with not only fantastic creative talent, but also to the Manufacturers & Retailers we met over the two weeks. It was a real pleasure to meet you all. We will be making contact with you over the coming weeks with regard to discussions we had. Also we have seen from our site Analytics, that some of you have been very interested in our web site, so please don’t... Read More
Print & Pattern Blog
Pin It If you havent heard of it, then you must have been living in a cave in deepest Burundi for the last 5 years. ‘Bowie Style’ [not her real name!] has been photographing and logging the styles & trends of the gift, cards & textile industries for what seems like forever. We found the wonderful Michelle Romo through her website back in 2008. Her perseverence in collecting information resulted in the Print & Pattern Book.... Read More
Ye Olde English eShoppe
Pin It Mr Bird by Snufflette Due to suprising success at the New Designers show, Creatives Inc will now be creating a retail eStore to support the interest from the general public. Since we were there primarily to recruit new talent and showcase what we are about, we will be developing ranges of cushions, cards, tees & babygrows. We will still be working with our clients & designers to bring you the best in product development Bear with... Read More
