Author: Rebecca Clarke

On the Monday this week myself and Lisa had a sales meeting at ME&EM. We had just got the new print run delivered as well so there was lots to show off! ME&EM was a long-time customer of CocoBloom and they are a big fan of all of Lisa’s prints. We ended up selling two… Continue reading Coco Bloom Week 8

This week it turned out that Lisa was quite ill and she suggested that I stayed at home instead of coming into the studio so that I didn’t catch anything off of her. I continued working on my Ukrainian Folk ditsy piece and also putting together some other prints with a similar feel to them.… Continue reading Coco Bloom Week 7

We headed back into the print studio this week, this time Lisa was very keen for us to have a go at some Devore prints. This is where the substance that is printed onto the fabric takes away a layer of fabric meaning that where you print onto then becomes see-through. This works particularly well… Continue reading Coco Bloom Week 6

We managed to get back into the print studio again this week! I was really excited about this as I had loved it so much in my first week. We spent the day monoprinting – painting onto the screens with dyes and then running them through onto the fabric. This gives such a beautiful print… Continue reading Coco Bloom Week 5

Back to the studio this week! After Easter Monday I was back in the studio with Lisa and we were getting prepared to go to an appointment with a NEW client. This was very important to make a good impression and get a new contact that the company could start selling to. We headed up… Continue reading Coco Bloom Week 4

Lisa was away this week so I stayed at home and chipped away at the scans that needed doing so they could be uploaded to the website. Again, tedious work but I was quite grateful for the rest to be honest. I also recorded some screen video of how to upload the prints to the… Continue reading Coco Bloom Week 3

My second week at Coco Bloom, the other interns weren’t in this week so me and Lisa focused on some more administrative things the two of us. She ran me through her website, which was the same set up as Story Designs which was nice and easy for me to pic up on. I continued… Continue reading Coco Bloom Week 2

My first week at my new placement at Coco Bloom! I was very excited to start my new placement and get a closer look into a print take on a small independent business. Although I had really enjoyed my time at story I realised it was important for me to move on and to also… Continue reading Coco Bloom Week 1

My final week at Story :((((( Lauren the new intern arrived on the Monday from Ireland. It was really nice to meet another student doing a placement and we got on great from the start. I spent the day teaching her the ropes of the more administrative side of things like the uploading and putting… Continue reading Story Design Week 23

At the start of this week Julinka mentioned to me that her friend Lisa was looking for an intern at her print company CocoBloom. Julinka knew that my specialism at Chelsea was print so she was very keen for me to get in touch with Lisa and introduce myself. Thankfully Julinka had put in a… Continue reading Story Designs Week 22