Laura Jane design story

Irish artist Laura Jane designed a T-shirt, tote bag, and sweater in collaboration with Indonesian school kids. Read all about her!

For this month’s drop, artist Laura Jane collabed with Putri, a 9-year-old pupil from the SDN 4 Batu Putih school in Gili Asahan. The one person who makes Putri feel safe and at home is her mother. This is why she drew herself holding a balloon, while out on a walk with her mother. All proceeds from the merch sales will go towards helping Putri's school.

Laura Jane

Laura Jane is an Irish artist, based in Italy. She is a self-taught illustrator who started out her career as a teacher. While teaching wasn’t for her, she loved working with children and being creative. She now has an impressive online presence, which she uses to advocate for mental health awareness and to spread her joyful artworks. Her fun illustrations caught the eye not only of 350 000 Instagram followers, but also of brands like CASETiFY, Penguin Random House, Mind UK, and The Teaching Tools. Her inspiring art style and passion for helping children made her the perfect collaborator with Face This!

You can now buy your own Laura Jane x Face This on a great, unique T-shirt.

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Laura x Putri:

How artist Laura Jane collaborated with Putri (9)

  • Why Laura Jane wanted to design a Face This T-shirt

    “I loved the idea of getting to collaborate with a kid on the other side of the world and take a piece of their art, their hope and their joy, and turn it into something that could potentially help fund their future as well.”

  • Laura Jane on Indonesian kids’ drawings

    “I was lucky that the piece of art that I got to collaborate on was something that immediately resonated with me. And that I felt I was able to bring my style of art into it, while still linking it back to what she created.”

  • How Laura Jane designed her Face This T-shirt

    “I just started to build the artwork around the balloon and the feeling I had when I looked at her drawing, which was just joy and hope.”
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How Stina Persson and other artists collab with Indonesian school kids

At Face This, artists creatively collab with Indonesian school kids on T-shirts, totes and sweaters. And as the proceeds benefit their school, the kids literally design their own future.

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