Illustration
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Editorial Design
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Social Impact & Development
Client
Black Women Stitch
Year
2025
Discipline
Illustration
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Editorial Design
Sector
Social Impact & Development
I found Black Women Stitch through Catchafire and worked with their team to create an illustration for their 2024 wall calendar. The organisation centres Black women, girls and femmes in sewing, bringing together creativity, community and social justice. Working with Adrienne Dent and founder Lisa Woolfork, I explored how the craft of sewing could be communicated through a bold, colourful composition. The chosen direction used a piece of fabric to bring together a woman sewing, familiar tools and geometric patterns within one image. I developed the artwork from rough sketches into a finished illustration, refining its colour and details through feedback from the team. It was lovely to see the work printed in the calendar alongside contributions from other artists.
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Context
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Black Women Stitch creates a space where Black women’s experiences and creativity are central to the conversation around sewing. Through its community activities and Stitch Please podcast, it celebrates the craft while addressing representation, self-expression and social justice. The calendar was another way to bring that creative community into an everyday printed object. My role was to create an original illustration for the calendar. The team shared their art and design guidelines, along with photographs of previous editions, which helped me understand how the artwork would sit within the printed format. I wanted the composition to bring attention to the person making the work, while giving the tools, fabric and patterns enough presence to communicate the wider world of sewing.
