I am a huge fan of Dwell Magazine and it is so crazy wonderful to have the home I share with my family featured in this month’s issue!
We renovated the house a couple of year’s ago and treated the challenge much like I do with any new project: obsessive-like focus, high creative energy and surrounding myself with an amazing designers.
Our architect Christi Azevedo, was the genius behind the master plan, and fast execution!
For more photos, go to Petit Collage’s facebook.
Writing and illustrating children’s books is one of my favorite things to do. My husband and I are raising our daughter Matilda to be bilingual (we are both originally from Buenos Aires), so it thrills me to know that my books are published in Italy and Slovenia to Korea and Australia (over a dozen countries in all, including Argentina!). Matilda keeps asking me to read these editions – I better get busy learning new languages too.
Target stores picked up an exclusive set of Petit Collage journals. I heard they are doing great. They feature our distinctive illustration featuring owls, birds and squirrels with colorful flowers and greenery. I’m so happy!
My partnership with Chronicle Books continues to flourish. This season we added a funky monkey mobile and alphabet garlands. We now have 7 products licensed by Petit Collage with the Chronicle gift line. Yeah!
We just saw the images of three Petit Collage illustrations that now featured on Gelaskins! They look amazing in this format. Now I have to figure out which one I want to put on my iPhone! Let me know what you think.
I’ve been busy creating new products for my company Petit Collage. The line continues to grow and we add new goodies every season (Psssst…we’re shooting our Fall catalog this weekend so our studio is hopping today!). This spring we introduced deluxe elephant mobiles with brightly colored felt ears. We illustrated outfits, cars, trucks, kayaks and more for our Transportation and Dress Up posters. Stop by and visit us www.petitcollage.com!
I Like Fruit was chosen as a 2011 “Best Book for Babies.” My smile is huge!
Here’s a little known fact: I love to draw food!
My old friends at Gallison (I was their Creative Director in my past life) commissioned me to create a line of kitchen gift items, including a recipe book with illustrated tabs, a recipe box, labels and coaster. Yummy.
I’ve always admired OXO products, so when they commissioned me to develop the branding for their new tot line, I jumped right in! The project involved creating the icons as well as the decorative patterns on 4 new product categories: nursery, feeding, bathing and cleaning. This illustrative branding will be used in all packaging for over 100 new items (think bath toys, night lights, bottle brushes and sippy cups) and I am so, so proud to be associated with such a design-driven brand. A oxo right back at you guys!
More Paris book spotting! I always find one of the best selections of children’s books in the museum shop of the Centre Pompidou. So I headed over there for some inspiration, and Voilá I found our dear “in my” series developed by my darling friend Sara and illustrated by moi. They even had the just released Jungle and Ocean. Très Bonne!
-Lorena
Last week I had an amazing day visiting the “Salon du Livre” (Book Fair) in Paris. Unlike book fairs in America, this was open to the public! Flocks of families and kids were reading in every nook and buying their favorite books. Not only I was so terribly inspired by what I saw, I was also thrilled to spot my “Ilike Bugs” book, in french, published by amazing Albin Michel.
-Lorena
The nice people over at UK magazine Little Big just interviewed me and said all kinds of good things about me that made my day.
Collage Queen: Lorena Siminovich
ARTIST Lorena Siminovich has made quite an impact upon the graphic design for children we see around us today.
We are now so used to seeing collage mixed with illlustration, it’s easy to forget Lorena’s influence on the style. Her petit collage brand has spawned a number of copycats, but the San Francisco-based Lorena is not a one-trick pony. Her wooden cutout mobiles, new decals (elephant pictured below), and in particular her growing range of book titles – including her Petit Collage touch and feel baby board books for Templar (in the UK) and her series of story books featuring the characters Alex & Lulu, mark her out as a special talent.
Click here for the full interview, is not everyday that i’m called “Collage Queen”
A book that makes little ones want to play! “I like toys” completes the set of bright touch-and-feel books. Introducing shapes through a child’s favorite toys has never been so fun. While playing with your food has a whole new meaning with “I Like Vegetables” on market shelves. The concept of opposites is introduced to wee ones while they play with this touch-and-feel collage book.
Hitting beach chairs everywhere, “In My Ocean” makes its debut. Featuring a spunky dolphin playing in the coral reefs, seaweed and waves, little ones will soon be asking for a pet dolphin instead of a puppy. Click here to purchase
The book number nine in the “in my” saga is out and about.
Mossy vines, feathered friends and sweet snacks are in store for this little monkey!
You can purchase it here
I was happy to hear from my dear friend Meg Mateo Ilasco, and got invited to be a part of her awesome latest book “Crafting a meaningful home”
Even more fun was to have the talented Thayer Allison Gowdy come to my house to take the photos and later on to shoot a fun little video to promote the book.
I made a special collage for the book, dedicated to my daughter and inspired by my love for far away places.
The book is chockfull of interesting projects for the DIY inclined.
The video is really cheery and makes me feel a bit like a rockstar.