Associate Professor
University of Notre Dame
Designer, artist, and scholar working at the intersection of visual communication design, critical fabulation, and media aesthetics.
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Association for Craft Producers: Nepali Monkey Line
Cotton textiles and homewares product line
Fair trade house and homewares children’s product line for the Association for Craft Producers featuring the repeating motif of Nepali monkeys.
Concept
Working for the fair trade organization Association for Craft Producers on-site in Kathmandu, Nepal, this line was developed to sell products for the not-for-profit company. While providing design, marketing, creative strategy, and technical services to low-income Nepali craft producers, I also created this commercial linen line that blends traditional craft with modern design and technology to suit market trends.
product development
wood block
screen printing
pattern design
sewing
embroidery
exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum
part of the ACCelerate Festival
Client
Association for Craft Producers
Drawing inspiration from the most sacred among Buddhist pilgrimage sites, Swayambhunath, also known as "Monkey Temple," in Kathmandu, Nepal, this line focuses on the families of holy monkeys that live on the North-West parts of the the temple. Bringing the playful characteristics of these iconic monkeys to a Nepali children's line, this motif executes itself through a repeatable screen print pattern, block prints, and a fun but chic color palette.
The yellow and grey on white cottons or organic neutrals, offset by a gender-indifferent blue, can be extended from children into housewares and garden. Accompanying this line are hand-embroidered accessory pieces, tying in the Association for Craft Producer's fair trade aesthetic.
The Association for Craft Producers is a Fair Trade Organization in Nepal that supports low-income artisans with design, marketing, and technical services. Designs blend traditional craft with modern aesthetics to offer a flexible program for creative collaboration.
Part of the Association for Craft Producers’ mission is to provide various benefits and programs for the welfare of their workers, in addition to conservation of the environment.
Learn more about the Association for Craft Producers here.