Space Launch Party!

Thanks everyone for coming along to our Space Launch party and making it a fantastic evening, we had such a blast. See you when we open for business in a few weeks.

Space Launch

Date: 5/6/10

Where: Shop 4, 58-60 Carlton Crescent, Summer Hill 2130

Time: 6-7pm (Drinks afterwards TBA)

After many months of hard work on our shop, its launch night is in sight.

As designers, our dream is quite simple: to have a space that allows us the freedom to be creative and support fellow independent artists and designers.

Our new gallery and shop will offer something original, sweet and within reach - every time you visit.

This night is about launching the space, and unveiling our name, website and social media presence. If you can’t be with us to celebrate, we’ll send you our website after the launch so you can see what we are about.

Hope you can join us.
Emma and John

Final Countdown!

Just a few photos of Sweets Workshop, after adding the final touches to the fit out and display just before the Space Launch.

Finished Desk

This is our our great desk all finished after those "Few Repairs" mentioned earlier. As you can see it now has a walnut top and lemon interior.

Is It A Door?.... Is It A Table?....

With a little bit of love, a little bit of rose coloured glass and a whole lot of sanding we were able to transform this old door into a decorative display table for Sweets Workshop.

It's In The Bag

This is an image of a little gift bag we put together to give to our friends and family at the Space Launch exhibition opening.

It contains all kinds of Sweets Workshop marketing propaganda as well as a small canvas to take home and decorate.

Stamps

Our stamps got delivered this morning, nice and early at 8:00am.... sigh

Shop Plant

This is our new shop plant which we potted this afternoon. It is a Spathiphyllum, Peace Lilly which we have taken to calling Madge.

Greetings From Sunny Sweets Workshop!

This is the artwork for our store postcard we have designed for Sweets Workshop. Emma created the beautiful image of the exterior of our shop with a pencil, tissue paper and a touch of gingham. We love it so much we have used it on our brand new About Us Page.

Business Cards

We set ourselves a fun little project: To create 4 different typographic and illustrative treatments of our logo and apply them to the design of our business cards.

#1 Basic Black
#2 Water Colour White#3 Red Weave#4 Stamped Box Board

Timber Von Trap Door

Our good friend David dropped by yesterday and used his carpentry wizardry to build us this fantastic new trap door.

Gallery Hanging System

Today, after much technical discussion we had our gallery hanging system installed. It turned out to be quite discrete.

It's What's Underneath That Counts

We decided that the office carpet had to go and began the slow process of pulling it up tonight. Lucky for us we found the original cypress pine floorboards still lurking underneath.

Fun With Letters

We went letter shopping today in two amazing stores Ici et lá... and David Met Nicole. This post is bought to you by the letter 'S', which was bought for us by our lovely friend Tania.

Home Away From Home...

Today on another trip to The Bower in Marrickville we picked up a great desk which was for sale. It just needs a few repairs and it will a great edition to the shop's fit out.

For those of you that don't know The Bower Reuse and Repair Centre Co-operative Ltd collects and in some cases repairs preloved household goods then resells them to the local community, diverting 'waste' from the Sydney metropolitan municipal waste stream.

All funds from this process cover the cost of this service, as well as our many educational initiatives aimed at informing the community about waste reduction and sustainable practices.

Just A Lick Of Paint

A fresh coat of china white really brightened this place up.

Display Chair

We picked up this very well loved wooden chair today, while on holidays on the south coast of New South Wales. We spotted it as we were on our way to the beach outside this great shop in Thirroul called Retro Wombat. I'm so glad we stopped and had a look inside, we'll just have to give it a clean with some soap and water and it will be ready to use for displaying items in our shop.

The Counter

This is our counter, its a neat-o 1950's/1960's cabinet we picked up today from the Bower in Marrickville. It came complete with a pink interior, laminated top, satin lining and a photo from its former life as a home bar. If only it could talk, i'm sure it could tell us some stories of dinner parties, cocktail evenings and fondue nights.

Logo Design

Today we worked on designing our company logo. Our goal was to create a typographic logo which was graphic, unique, modern, engaging, bold and instantly recognisable.

Stylistically the typefaces we looked at were a mix of the classic, graceful, stylized and geometric shapes of the Art Deco movement with the unrefined nature of modern hand drawn script styles.

We began by splitting our company name into its two components and explored the use of these juxtaposing type-styles to create an interesting logo design. After a few attempts we decided to divide the word workshop into two separate words, work and shop by using a cleverly placed (and originally purely accidental) line break and hyphen. The use of this simple device helped reflect the nature of our business (as a place of work and a retail shop) through a fun play on words.

Key-Day

December 23rd was quite an eventful day.
Part 1, Our Development Application was approved by the council.
Part 2, Contracts were exchanged at 3pm.
Part 3, We picked up the keys.
Part 4, Open the door.
Skip to Part 8, LETS CELEBRATE!