Amber James
An innovative designer-maker operating under the lexicon ‘bambooteak’.
Bambooteak is a label that strives to combine the practices of craft and graphic design in order to achieve visual stimulation for the viewer.
A magpie like observation of any thing, person, or sound that sparks the imagination has made her creations become part of their own unique and vivid world.
Lead by traditional craft processes her practice can take the shape of illustrations, collages, clothes, knitwear, photographs, books, screenprints or fabric patterns.
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Geometria (latin – to measure the earth). A visual design book containing a series of aesthetic observations and reactions.
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Screenprinted insert for Geometria
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Illustration for Geometria
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Geo print pattern sample book 1/8. Small edition of hand screen-printed fabric patterns. Colour navigation used on the spine, custom made black paper case to protect white perspex covers.
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Geo print pattern sample book 1/8. Concertina pulls out to show breakdown of the pattern consruction and final fabric sample.
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Geo fabric purses. Hand made using unique printed fabric.
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T-shirt design, styling and photography for Bambooteak Clothing