Irenebrination readers have been following the Fashionary line since fashion and graphic designer Penter Yip founded it.
This range of stationery designed for people working at all levels of the fashion industry currently features classic diaries with Men and Womenswear templates, foldable sketch pads in various sizes and elegant notebooks developed in collaboration with fashion designers.
Yip has just released the latest product range - the Candy Pops line. The main idea comes from dipping cake pops in candy melts: the four Fashionary sketchbooks included in this line look indeed as if they had been entirely dipped in pools of vividly bright shades - Cherry, Blueberry, Mint and Lemon (also the bookmark threads, elastic bands and book edges come in the same colour of the cover).
The Candy Pops Fashionary sketchbooks (womens figure; 14cm (W) x 21cm (H)), feature 130 template pages plus the usual information section including tips about measurement tools, brand index, knitting information, fabric dictionary, laundry labels, seams and stitches, fashion and trade events and monthly calendars. The sketchbooks are currently available from the Fashionary online store (price: US $24.90) or from dedicated stationery and book shops.
The Candy Pops range was launched last week with a special photoshoot: Penter Yip told Irenebrination the conceptual shoot was inspired by traditional Chinese Tangram puzzles that employ seven tans or shapes (five triangles, a square and a parallelogram) to make different outlines.
As fans of this type of puzzle know, more intricate and varied shapes are possible with more Tangram sets, so, if you genuinely want to play a fashion Tangram with the Fashionary, you may want to get more than just one set of colours.
Jokes aside, though, Yip's comparison with the Tangram was really apt: Tangram puzzles contain serious and playful mathematics, but so does the Fashionary, since the latter can be used as a fun tool to draw and sketch or to keep tracks of complicate measurements for clothes and patterns.
You can keep updated on the latest Fashionary releases by checking out its blog, Facebook or Instagram pages (check out on the Instagram page the lovely illustrations and sketches by Fashionary collaborator Vikki Yau).
All images in this post courtesy of Penter Yip/Fashionary.
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