Who are The Crafties?
The Crafties It is a designer and scenographer duo, consisting of Marie-Marie Vergne and Jeanne Martin Taton.
The Crafties are two young women who come from the South, breathe the South, live in the South — after brief northern forays for their studies and their first workshop — and express the South in every square centimetre of their work, which draws inspiration in particular from Mediterranean flora and fauna and their childhood memories.
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When you meet Les Crafties, you immediately feel the joy, complicity and trust that binds them.
What interested me was understanding how they started, how they work as a pair, any difficulties they encounter, and their relationship with one another.
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They hadn’t planned on setting up their studio before taking part in the first edition of the Design Parade Toulon organised by the Villa Noailles — and they speak about it wonderfully: «The teams are extraordinary, and it was the first time we were given the means to benefit from a technical team — to move beyond the academic, to a real-world creation».
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They also tell us about their respective family backgrounds, which encouraged them to make a living from their art, and everything that their partnership brings them.
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If you’d like to find out more about what I call Creative Management, I dedicated a full episode to it a few months ago.
Today, I would like to take a closer look at one aspect of Creative Management: team-building.
What exactly does it involve?
What are the benefits?
I also share a great example, as well as a counter-example, from my own experience as an employee.
And bonus: I talk about my favourite sports coach, Ted Lasso. (no spoiler as I haven’t started Series 4 yet).
If you're interested in offering your team a workshop / team-building / training session, do drop me an email! lbm@lilibonnet.com
I can organise and facilitate almost anywhere in the world 🙂
I’ve known Fabien for over 20 years, back when he was a graphic designer.
We worked together on a project and have stayed in touch — partly because it’s something I enjoy doing, of course, but mainly because I’ve always admired his entrepreneurial spirit.
Even when he enrolled at art school, he didn’t know what he was going to do later on; he just had a fairly broad vision of his future:
– getting up whenever he wanted;
– not working for a boss;
– and living in a loft.
Today, that’s exactly what he’s doing.
He’s the owner of UNSEEN, a vintage shop in Brussels, but he’s also a designer, a carpenter…
it’s clearly impossible to define him in a single word, as he has developed and put to use a wide range of skills.
And it’s quite fascinating to see how much this multi-potential individual needs to free himself from the constraints that a single skill entails, to allow himself not to be confined to just one profession. Not to limit himself. And that is precisely the driving force behind everything he undertakes.
this episode, we also talked about:
– pop culture,
– imposter syndrome,
– mental health,
– and identity, thanks to his recent reconnection with his country of origin, Vietnam.
