Here at Skinnydip we are always loving super cute stationary, jewellery or just a little something to brighten up our day, so when we came across Andsmile Studio and Viktorija, the designer/maker behind the brand we were dying to find out more about how it all works! If you are a Wes Anderson fan (like we are) or just love beautifully intricate illustrations in the form of brooches, jewellery, notebooks and so much more, you'll love Andsmile! 

My name is Viktorija and I graduated with a degree in Illustration and had no idea what to do with my creative life. I just kept drawing, working at my day job and dreaming of drawing for a living and one day my friend opened a furniture pop up shop and asked if I could sell him some greeting cards with my designs, so I did and started my etsy shop with a few cards and prints. And after that I just couldn’t stop making brooches, earrings and thinking of other ideas of products with my drawings.

 

I really wanted to create wearable drawings and I tried a few materials before coming across shrink plastic. It gave me the freedom to create small runs of products to test the grounds and after time I just fell in love, it’s a great and fun material. I draw mainly with watercolours and gouache and absolutely love the texture you can achieve with these mediums.

 

I’m really bad with that, my favourite is usually the latest design I create (oops!).

 

It’s quite small and very light. With lots of organising tools (several diaries, planners and post it notes all over the place). 

 

 My inspiration comes from many places around me, walks in the park, visiting museums and Wes Anderson films of course. It’s so hard to pin point who’s my biggest creative inspiration there are way too many amazing and talented people I admire.

I think the moment I was able to do this full-time in 2013, that’s my highlight and I hope to continue doing what I love and hopefully make people smile.

 I’m pretty excited about my new collection which I plan to release end of April. YAY!