The summer holidays are looming, a time when children have five or six glorious weeks stretching ahead of them. If we are lucky, the days will be filled with sunshine. Even if we’re not, it is a great opportunity for families to spend time together. But what to do? Well, as we’re children’s book designers…
Happydesigner Piggy Post: News & Features from September 2023
STOP PRESS: HAPPYDESIGNER ARE ON THE MOVE! Apologies for the slightly shorter blog this month, as much of our time is being spent on getting organised for our impending move to new premises. Happydesigner’s new home will soon be in a 17th Century Grade 2 listed building full of quirky-shaped rooms and lots of old,…
Trees: they’re green, they’re brown, they’re leafy and we love them!
Do you love trees? We do! In fact, we love trees so much that our superstar children’s book designer and author, Sarah-Leigh, has made a tree the hero of her latest book. ‘Sally Sapling’ features the eponymous character who witnesses the changing decades as she goes from a young tree to a mature copper beech….
Happydesigner Piggy Post: News & Features from August 2023
August Overview The hectic year continues apace, with no signs of letting up, but we love what we do here at Happydesigner, so it’s all good! Perhaps the sun may not have been shining as much as we would have liked throughout August, but the studio has remained as bright and as colourful as ever,…
Happydesigner Piggy Post: News & features of July 2023
Welcome to the first edition of the Happydesigner Piggy Post! It’s been a pretty hectic year so far at Happydesigner HQ, and July has been no exception; with lots of beautifully illustrated children’s books having been completed, new ones beginning, old doors closing, and exciting new ones opening wide, it has most certainly been a…
Put a sock in it for a fun awareness day
We love a whacky awareness day, and this month we’ve had a corker – Crazy Sock Day! A day when we’re encouraged to go out and about wearing odd socks. To be honest, at Happydesigner, we often wear odd socks, so for us, it wasn’t so much an ‘awareness day’ as ‘a normal day’! There…
Our groundbreaking signing books for children are set for launch…!!!
The countdown is on. In just a few days – on March 1st 2023 – our pioneering Signing Friends books that teach Makaton signing to children and their parents will hit the marketplace! We are so proud of this collaboration between ourselves and the fantastic team at Singing Hands, which was set up by mums…
We’re springing into action, and the snowdrops are here!
Did you know that on February 1, it was St Brigid’s Day? And do you know its significance? Well, sit back and relax while we tell you… St Brigid, also known as St Brigid of Kildare, is the female patron saint of Ireland, and, significantly for this blog, her patron saint day on February 1…
Another gong for the Happydesigner team
We’re not normally ones to blow our own trumpet, but we are chuffed to bits to have won an illustration award for the second year in a row. Yours truly – i.e. Happydesigner – has been named Illustration Studio of the Year 2023 in the annual Prestige Awards. We were first given this award in…
