Posted
on April 14, 2011, 8:00 pm.
It isn’t everyday you get to work with a social business from the Amazon… Wait, let’s back up. It isn’t everyday you get the opportunity to go to the Amazon. So what do you do, when that opportunity arises? You take advantage, of course. This is exactly what Diane Pinto (@KayapoProject) did when she had the rare opportunity to get to know the Kayapó people who live deep in the Amazon Rainforest. The Kayapó women make beautiful beaded bracelets, each bracelet has a unique pattern and tells a different story. And so The Kayapó Project began. Diane travels to the villages where the women and their daughters make these bracelets and brings them back to North America where she is able to share the Kayapó’s story through these handmade items. Helping The Kayapó Project launch their business is pretty much a dream job. One day, I hope to make it to visit the woman who made my bracelet. In the meantime, I will just have to work with amazing people like Diane to realize their dream jobs.
This is the story of my bracelet:
Village: Pukanu
Artisan: Ngreikamoro
Pattern: Tortoise belly
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Posted
on December 2, 2010, 5:55 pm.
This past summer/fall, I had the pleasure to work with Leeorah Pearce’s chocolate company, Chelsea Truffles. What a dream job, to design her new line of chocolate bars and get it all ready to hit the market. At first it was just a simple wrapper design for the Belgian chocolate bars. If you’ve ever worked with me, you’ll know that I’m a go big or go home kinda person. I didn’t think a simple wrapper would do justice to these decadent chocolate bars. With a only a quick twist of her arm, the project included chocolate mould design and retail counter units to tie everything together to make it impossible to see these chocolate bars and not purchase one… or four. I was in Ottawa this past weekend and spotted the Chelsea Truffles chocolate bars in La Bottega Nicastro!
Posted
on August 19, 2010, 2:56 pm.
When I was in Rwanda, I met a woman who was starting a business that cultivates, harvests, dries and sells Moringa powder. Moringa is a plant that grows in the most impoverished parts of the world. Most of the plant is edible and contains the essential vitamins for healthy living. Some call it the miracle plant. In addition to designing a logo, I designed some packages as well. They were printed in Nairobi. Ifu Ya translates to ‘powder’ in Kinyarwanda.
Posted
on August 19, 2010, 2:22 pm.
FDA approved packaging for Scratch Kitchen – an online gourmet food company that delivers gourmet frozen food to your door! I have to be honest, working for this company made me hungry all the time.
Posted
on July 29, 2010, 3:05 pm.
