K8 dizajn, Sandra Pohole, s. p.

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www.k8dizajn.si graphic design, premade book covers, publishing, gifts

I, Sandra, standing on top of K8 dizajn, am a graphic designer by profession. In the course of my career, I have worked for a few publishing companies, but true love seemed to have lied elsewhere than merely in mouse-clicking and blending colours on a screen and later in printing machines. Nevertheless, 12-year experience in book design has left its trace on me: just a glance at my playful and unique word of jewellery will tell you that I have been mesmerised by black and white; the two colours I stared at on a computer screen while setting up and designing the layout of books. But one cannot do without colours. Therefore, there is an intensive splash of magenta in my logo, and together with black and white, they make up the signature of Sandra Pohole.

My freelance career at K8 dizajn involves plenty of quick decisions and satisfaction after the work is done, but also continuous search for the new, and learning and exploring, whether in terms of materials, delivery or sale solutions. I'm living my brand, and my diverse assortment of products changes almost as fast as the colour of my short hair or the frame of my glasses.

My main products include tiny accessories, which bring heaps of joy to their owners. From the beginning, the signature items have been lucky piglets and lady bugs. These petite, colourful creatures have become popular gifts for everybody who appreciates simple thoughtfulness and believes that in this fast-forward world, we need tiny lucky charms to protect us against the nonchalant attitude of our times, remind us of the thoughtful gift-giver and the magic they carry: luck and happiness. The more you turn these small miracles and look for traces of human hands, the more you are astounded and excited by what a precise, devoted and talented hand can do. Surely, this must have been what the strict committee chaired by renowned Slovenian ethnologist, Janez Bogataj, of the Chamber of Craft and Small Business of Slovenia, thought after they had evaluated my products and granted me with the Arts & Crafts Slovenia certificate.

Also, I never hide my techniques from others; if you are patient enough, you can learn the first steps of the craft by following the detailed and playful instructions that I share on my Facebook page, one of the best starting points to promote the products at home and abroad. I most like to create my tiny filigree miracles in polymer clay, but lately I’m turning towards beeswax-based clay more and more. Modelling the latter is even more pleasing; by moulding its pieces, I'm transforming something that used to be part of nature into an artistic piece, which enables us to carry a fragment of nature with us at all times.

Products like the ones made by the owner and errand runner at K8 dizajn, can't be found on stands with imported mass-produced jewellery. Items with so many tiny and precise details, connected into a harmonious unit, can't be found in shops selling more or less the same, or boringly alike, trinkets. K8 dizajn creates a magical world, splashed with vibrant colours that bring beauty and pleasure to everybody who owns my products.

Sandra, ki stojim na vrhu svojega K8 dizajna, sem uradno inženirka grafične tehnike. Pot me je doslej peljala skozi nekaj založniških hiš, a prava ljubezen se je skrivala drugje, ne samo na računalniški miški in ob prelivanju barv na ekranu in potem pod tiskarskimi stroji. Pa vendar me je 12-letno ukvarjanje z oblikovanjem knjig zaznamovalo: že bežen prelet mojega igrivega unikatnega sveta nakita pove, da sta me črna in bela barva, v kateri sem zrla v računalniški ekran, ko sem skozi leta »postavljala« in oblikovala knjige, začarali. A brez barve ne gre. Že iz mojega logotipa intenzivno brizgne pljusk magente barve, ki bo ob beli in črni sestavlja podpis Sandre Pohole.

Samostojna podjetniška pot je pri K8 dizajnu polna hitrih reakcij in zadovoljstva ob narejenem, a tudi nenehnega iskanja novega, učenja in raziskovanja, pa naj bo pri materialih ali izvedbi ali prodajnih rešitvah. Živim s svojo znamko, bogat prodajni program pa se spreminja skoraj tako hitro kot barva na mojih kratko postriženih laseh ali na okvirjih očal.

Med izdelki prevladujejo drobni okraski, ki prinašajo veliko veselja novim lastnicam in lastnikom. Zaščitni znak so mi kmalu postali prašički za srečo. Te živopisane drobne živalce so postale priljubljeno darilo za vse, ki cenijo drobne pozornosti in v tem drvečem času verjamejo, da morajo obstajati drobni amuleti, ki nas varujejo pred vseenostjo, nas spominjajo na prijaznega darovalca in to, kar nosijo: srečo. Bolj obračaš te drobne čudeže in iščeš v njih sled človeških rok, bolj si presenečen in navdušen, kaj zmore natančna, predana in nadarjena roka. Gotovo so ob ogledu mojih izdelkov tako razmišljali tudi strogi žirantje v komisiji na Obrtni zbornici pod vodstvom prof. dr. Janez Bogataja, ki so mojim izdelkom leta 2011 podelili certifikat Art&Craft Slovenija.

In še to, sama ničesar ne skrivam, če je kdo dovolj potrpežljiv, se lahko prvih korakov moje obrti nauči s pomočjo natančnih in igrivih navodil, ki jih delim kar na svoji spletni strani www.k8dizajn.si. Svoje filigransko drobne male čudeže ustvarjam najraje v polimerni glini, v zadnjem času pa še več iz gline, ki je narejena na osnovi čebeljega voska. Delo z njim je še prijetnejše, saj se z gnetenjem drobcev te gline preoblikuje nekaj, kar je bilo nekoč del narave, zdaj pa postaja umetniški izdelek, ki nam omogoča, da drobec narave zaživi tudi z nami.

Kaj takega, kot nastane pod rokami ustanoviteljice in punčke za vse pri K8 dizajn, ne morete videti na tržnicah z uvoženim nakitom na meter. Toliko drobnih in natančno izdelanih detajlov, povezanih v harmonično celoto, okrašenih z dodano pentljo in ravno prav v duhu s časom vedno najhitrejših najstnic, ne, tega se ne najde med bižuterijo, ki je naprodaj že po vseh trgovinah če že ne enaka, pa vsaj dolgočasno podobna. K8 dizajn ustvarja čarobni črno-beli svet, presekan z brizgi energičnih barv, ki prinašajo lepoto in zadovoljstvo novim lastnicam in lastnikom.