• A design insight: the history of paper folding

    by  • 14 January 2015 • 0 Comments

    #FlorisDesign is back for 2015, and what a year of book production and design insights we have planned for you! First up this year is a unique look at the history of a very popular Floris craft: paper folding, or origami.   This week, we’re shining the spotlight on Paper Folding with Children: Fun...

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    New Year, New You: Giles Hutchins on Nature Uncut

    by  • 9 January 2015 • 0 Comments

    All through January, here on the Floris Blog we will be celebrating the new. New ways of thinking, new ways of interacting with the world around us, and new ways of living and working meaningfully. New year, new you! Today, Giles Hutchins, author of The Illusion of Separation, looks at Nature and asks: how can...

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    Dragons, Selkies and Fairy Princes

    by  • 11 December 2014 • 0 Comments

    Once upon a time, in a kingdom far far away, three talented young illustrators were paired up with three award winning Scottish authors and storytellers to create Picture Kelpies’ Traditional Scottish Tales. People traveled from miles around to visit their local bookshops and marvel at the wondrous books that had been created. Some even...

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