I thought it would be fun to show you the process of how I work.

As you all know I love to collage to make inspiration books and I don’t think I ever posted these pictures, but here I am hard at work (in my living room). I have an accordian file of all my inspiring images and I have them grouped by size and mood and I pull them all out and try to create inspiring collages to get my brain moving when it stalls out.

 I was probably drinking coffee and watching some version of Real Houswives while working on these. To see the final images go here.

I thought I would do some collages for myself with some of the scrap sample prints we had laying around just for fun and they turned out pretty cool so I brought them in and scanned them and next thing you know they are framed and on their way to High Point!! It is exciting when that happens!

Here are the pieces framed and cataloged, I hope you all get to see them in person in High Point at our new showroom in the C&D Building.

Ok, so as you all probably know, we are busy working on SM2 for the upcoming fall High Point Market. We are now in the process of printing and framing the samples that will go to the showroom. I wanted to share some of those pieces with you as we get them framed. This is just the beginning of a huge line that I think you all will LOVE when you see it in person. I wish I had a bigger house to hang it all in! I am so excited and am trying to figure out which pieces I want for myself ,  it is such a hard decision!!! This is the first round that have come out of the factory many, many  more to come!

Enjoy!

-tracy

We have been super busy around here getting the SM2 line ready for the OctoberHigh Point Market. I know it might seem a little early, but we still have a lot to do! We have to finalize all the sizing, make sure all categories are covered, create test prints, start framing, enter everything in the database, price, catalog, build a website, re-work weak ideas, and finally decide what makes the cut for High Point and what doesn’t. Now all of that wouldn’t be a problem if it was the only thing going on, but thankfully we are really busy with projects and orders on top of that so we are all running around trying to get everything done and consuming lots of coffee (well at least I am). Luckily we have a great team around here and I get a lot of help from my fav digital ladies Allison and Amanda !!(they did most of the stuff you see below)Woo Hoo!! So lets get to the good stuff…here are some more SM2 previews. I hope you all enjoy!!!

-Tracy

So we are working a huge project right now that is AMAZING!! It is our new line: SM2 by Soicher Marin targeted to a younger, less affluent audience than our regular line, but with that Soicher Marin distinctive style. My job (according to Ed) is to make it hipper, cooler, more trendy! Everything all in one! If you want edgy, we got it. If you want colorful, we got it. If you want traditional, we got it. We’ve been working on the concept for SM2 for nearly a year. We’re on plan but had to wait to get final product design going until after the Spring Soicher Marin line was done. I have been working on these ideas for a couple of weeks and already have about 600 images and I am only about 1/3 of the way done! The ideas have been building and building since the first mention of doing this line. We work great as a team going from concept to product pretty seamlessly. So, this is your first look at some of the ideas floating around so far. We will keep you posted on how it’ developing and you will be the first to know when the new line launches (look for it in July/August)!

-Tracy

We wanted to give you another sneak peak at some of our more colorful wallpaper designs. These were all hand drawn based on some of our antique prints, but revamped to be more modern and fun. We’ve been talking for some time about launching a textile line, but right now we are just testing it out, getting feedback and deciding if this is an avenue we should go down. I love doing it and I am excited that now we have a way to share it with the world! Hopefully it will develop into more and you all can follow it from the beginning. Ok, enough with the talking…here are the pics!

I hope you guys liked it. You will be seeing more and more as we continue to experiment with creating wallpaper!

-Tracy