Sas And Yosh
Tell
us your story?
Sarah and Yoshie grew up on opposite sides of
the world in the UK and Japan.
<Yoshie>
I was born in north east Japan countryside,
with natural drawing gift. In my childhood, I was spending all day with
expressing my imaginary world onto the paper. I dreamed to be a Manga comic
author until age11, when I had my first dog Koro and became an animal lover and
decided to be a vet. Then I went to the university to be vet in Central Japan
and soon became more into making clothes. After tried a sewing and pattern
course at a fashion college night course besides uni for 1-2years, I quit my
uni and went to a fashion college in Tokyo. After studied fashion for 3years
and graduated, I worked for a fashion company as a designer assistant and
learned about the fashion industry, but
soon I started feeling I would like to be a freelance something. So I started
my illustrator career in 2006 and luckily had some opportunity to published my
picture books from a couple publishers in Japan. While I enjoyed my work and
travelling around the world to get many inspirations I met my husband, who is
from UK. Many changing my way in my past and thanks to it I’m now here in the
UK with my lovely family and enjoying my artist life and working with my
special design other half Sas!
<Sarah>
Growing
up I was always obsessed with collecting things and filling scrap books. I
loved anything colourful and covered in pattern and drew all the time. Though
nothing has really changed there.
In my early 20’s I did lots of travelling and
have been hugely inspired by motifs, designs and nature from different
countries and cultures. I lived and worked in London for 6 years before
returning to my hometown where I spent 10 years sharing my love of art with
kids teaching art in independent school and FE college.
I decided to go back to University a few years
ago and did an MA in Children’s Book Illustration and decided it was time to
turn my passion into something that I could do every day! That’s when I met
Yoshie!
How
did you end up doing what you do?
Yoshie and I had a mutual friend who thought we
would get on well and introduced us to each other in early 2014. I don’t think
she ever would have thought what an amazingly wonderful thing she did in
getting us to meet up. We pretty much fell in love with each others work right
away and started hanging out together. Four months later Yoshie suggested we
start a business together, and Sas and Yosh was born. The idea was that every
illustration and design would be a collaboration. Drawing on both of our
strengths and experience, and creating our own unique illustrative look.
We spent the summer designing and creating
patterns, researching stockists and choosing products and officially launched
in Oct 2014 with our own homewares range of wallpaper, teatowels, mugs, aprons
and prints.
Since then we have continued to work on new
products including kids wear, cushions, makeup bags and wallstickers. We also
create bespoke and commissioned designs for a wide variety of clients making
web illustration, logos, textile design, magazine illustration and much more.
What's
the best part?
As we collaborate on all our patterns and
designs the most exciting element of our work is seeing what we do with each
others illustrations. Its thrilling to give your work to someone else and to
let them create something from it that you would never have thought of.
The
worst part?
As we both have kids under 6 its frustrating
not having enough time in the day to do more work! Also never having enough
money to instantly turn all our new design ideas into new products.
What
makes you very happy?
Sudden inspiration, sunny days and
drawing and our cool kids.
What
are your future ambitions professionally?
We really
want to continue to expand our own wallpaper, kidswear and homewares ranges and
to keep working on exciting collaborations with other clients and designers. We
are also working on creating bespoke one off digital wallpapers for individual
clients and would love to create wallpaper for restaurants or boutique hotels.
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