TIGHTS DESIGNER
Before a new design becomes a real product, there is actually quite a lot more to it than just designing the pattern. Normally this doesn’t matter at all to the people buying the tights, but maybe there are some people who are interested of these details. Often months pass between the times I sit down […]
I’ve been designing tights since 2013, and over the years I’ve created somewhere between 400 and 500 different designs. Many of them are still available as made to order pieces through the Virivee tights webshop or in my Etsy shop. My tights are handmade using a variety of techniques, including hand dyeing, screen printing and […]
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2020. I was thinking about what I could add to the Virivee tights collection to balance out its seasonality. I came to the conclusion that swimwear would be ideal, as tights are mainly a winter product, while swimwear is clearly for summer. I also thought it would be a […]
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2019. It was time to expand the Virivee collection and start designing tights for children too. Until now I had only worked with Lycra (polyamide) tights, but cotton material is the standard choice for kids products, so for this new collection I started working with cotton tights, which meant […]
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2019. For a while, we had been thinking about making a simple metal version of our wooden bicycle crates. After working with the heavy wooden crates, we knew one thing for sure: this time, we wanted to make something really lightweight. So we started thinking about aluminium. The first […]
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2017. After Spotty and ZigZag, our first wooden bicycle crates, we wanted to create something much lighter and easier to transport. So together with the Paperspokes team, we started working on a new bicycle crate design. Zsófi (Zsófia Bakó) designed the new crate, taking inspiration from Spotty. Everyone loved...
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2017. Earlier this year, I designed a collection of sheer tights for Virivee with colourful geometric patterns (I wrote about it here), and it turned out to be such a success that I wanted to take these sheer tights in a more sensual direction. This time, I wanted to […]
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2017. I really wanted to design a more special collection of tights for Virivee, something you don’t really see on the market. I decided to work with thin, sheer tights and decorate them with small, colourful geometric shapes. The idea was to make the shapes look as if they […]
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2016 We suddenly got the opportunity to take part in Milan Design Week 2016 in Italy as exhibitors with PaperSpokes. This was a pretty big deal for us, because taking part in an event like this is very expensive. Being invited and getting to participate for free was an […]
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2016 Between March 18 and 20 2016 we took part in Berliner Fahrradschau in Berlin with PaperSpokes. It was one of the main events of Berlin Bicycle Week, and most of the big cycling brands were represented there. We had applied for the exhibition back in October last year […]
I’ve always been an entrepreneur, working across graphic design, retail, and creative businesses. I’ve been writing this blog since 2014, sharing my work, creative projects, and business journey.
