New Press for 2011

We've had some lovely press today. This is Making Magazine which is a lovely new magazine full of inspiring articles, interviews with artist and makers and crafty projects. You can learn how to make this lovely origami lampshade on the front page. It was nice to flick through the pages and recognise some great makers, many of which can be found at Radiance. Jane Blease had an Interview and Helen Rawlinson was featured too with lovely pictures of her at work in her studio.

I love this cosy picture of my lamp nestled amongst friends, like Wendy Jungs heart nightlight, Ose Designs knitted lamps and Inkes birdbox light.

Radiance Gift Vouchers

The new Radiance gift vouchers are here and they are really really pretty. They were designed for us by the emerging talent that is graphic designer/illustrator Matthew Easby (keep an eye on his developing website as there are lots of lovely things to come).

They are available in £10, £25 or £50. Perfect if you just can't think of what to buy someone!

Sketchbooks

I was flicking through this old notebook and found my plans for the Radiance website. It's nice to look back and see the design in process before it actually happened....and nice to see that it turned out pretty much like it! ...bit of a dodgy sketch of Mibo's Clacket Lane lamp though. Sorry about that Madeleine!

Such Characters

Some more little birdies by Joanna Coupland landed at Radiance today. Cute little guys!

Last weekend at number 58!

This weekend is the last one for Radiance at number 58 Market Street before we make our big move down the road to number 26. I'll be a little sad to leave. It has looked after me very well indeed for the past 4 and a half years.

We have a lot of work to do down at the new place which we'll have to do over the next few days but can't really do it without taking the current shop apart and moving everything over. The bit that I was most nervous about has been done today. We had to fix these boxes to the ceiling to hang all the pendant shades on and think about how they were all wired together. It's been a bit of a headache for everyone. I couldn't think about where I want to place all the lightfittings without seeing them on the ceiling. Now they're up I can work it all out. Shame we have to take them back down in order to wire them up!



It'll be right!

So, Radiance will be closed from Monday 22nd until our grand opening on Saturday the 6th of March. The website is up and running as usual, it'll be just the real shop that's closed!

New Website coming along...

The new website is taking good shape. Here are a couple of screen shots. Shouldn't be long now...I can't wait to launch it!