Junior waje on the road
12th September 2009
There seems to be no stopping Helensburgh’s Brian Cairnduff and Phil Burns. Their children’s book business - AnElephantCant - spawned waje (wall jewellery) which has just, as we reported, had a significant sales success at the recent Homes & Interiors Exhibition at Glasgow’s SECC.
Now they’ve done it again. They’re going on the road with wajefication, the next step on their road to world domination.
The pair have produced Junior waje, giving young people the chance to shuffle their own wall jewellery, creating different patterns with prints that are like heavy duty posters, on a specially developed textile base and with an innovative, movable adhesive that apparently leaves no trace on wall surfaces of any kind.
The 3 roadshows, all in Glasgow and running across the end of September and early October, will feature both waje and Junior waje. Catch them at:
» 26th - 27th September at the Merchant City Festival at Wasps Studios in King Street
» 26th September at the West End Art Festival at Hillhead Library in Byres Road
» 3rd -4th October at Wasps Open Studios at Wasps Studios in King Street
The Junior waje images are wajefications of AnElephantCant’s Jack the little Giant books, adding colour. So the images in the books as charcoal or pencil drawings for children to colour in themseves are now presented in child-friendly waje form - reshuffleable art for the nursery.
So much about the inventiveness of Cairnduff and Burns is sit-up-and-take-notice stuff. Children will love these already known and loved images to play with on their walls - in colours they might have chosen. Then, while they play and while they live with the patterns they make and revise, they are developing their visual and aesthetic skills.
Now they’ve done it again. They’re going on the road with wajefication, the next step on their road to world domination.
The pair have produced Junior waje, giving young people the chance to shuffle their own wall jewellery, creating different patterns with prints that are like heavy duty posters, on a specially developed textile base and with an innovative, movable adhesive that apparently leaves no trace on wall surfaces of any kind.
The 3 roadshows, all in Glasgow and running across the end of September and early October, will feature both waje and Junior waje. Catch them at:
» 26th - 27th September at the Merchant City Festival at Wasps Studios in King Street
» 26th September at the West End Art Festival at Hillhead Library in Byres Road
» 3rd -4th October at Wasps Open Studios at Wasps Studios in King Street
The Junior waje images are wajefications of AnElephantCant’s Jack the little Giant books, adding colour. So the images in the books as charcoal or pencil drawings for children to colour in themseves are now presented in child-friendly waje form - reshuffleable art for the nursery.
So much about the inventiveness of Cairnduff and Burns is sit-up-and-take-notice stuff. Children will love these already known and loved images to play with on their walls - in colours they might have chosen. Then, while they play and while they live with the patterns they make and revise, they are developing their visual and aesthetic skills.
