Slow Loris Interview & Giveaway!
Slow Loris creates truly hand made products, printing unique designs onto a variety of clothing, notebooks, towels and more. Check out the interview below to get the creators’ inside scoop and see what they contributed to the blog giveaway!
Tell us bit about yourself, your company.
Jessica Lynch started Slow Loris in Oakland California in the spring of 1997 and re-located to Guemes island in the fall of 1999. While keeping true to it's hand made quality (no computers are ever used for design making) Jessica had her "hands" full and in 2007 teamed up with good friend Arlo Rumpff who had been a fisherman in the Bering sea. He brought his hard working enthusiasm to Slow Loris just in time. Jessica taught him how to screen print, (he's better than her now) models most of the shirts on the web site, and deals with a lot of the business side of Slow Loris, a part of the job Jessica was NEVER good at. Team Slow was now complete. Any average workday consists of drawing, singing and printing in our solar powered studio, as well as beach walks with a bunch of dogs. The adopted motto "feeling strong and not in a hurry" reflects the pride Team Slow feels standing behind a quality hand made product for the past fifteen years.
When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Jessica- A lawyer, a medical illustrator and a print maker
Arlo- A fisherman, a criminal and a business man.
Is there a certain person/place/object you draw inspiration from?
Jessica-Where I live always inspires me. When i lived in Oakland i was drawing trains, pipes and buildings. Now it's more ocean themes, ships, sea life and bridges.
If you had no boundaries: money, time, space, support, etc. what dream project would you pursue?
A&J- We would want to do a clothing the homeless project (which we do plan on).
Arlo -Wants to learn to fly.
Jessica- wants to screen print HUGE prints that cover walls and build an fully working etching/lithography studio.
What’s your favorite thing to do to kill time? Any secret Internet time wasters, guilty pleasures?
Arlo- Guitar, scuba diving, fishing, kayaking & IPA's
Jessica- hiking, long walks, biking, drawing, craigslist and champagne
Where do you like to go when you just want to get away? A beach, a mall, a market? What’s your favorite type of spot to go unwind.
A&J- We already live where we unwind. This is our perfect island haven.
If you only had one more meal to eat on this world what would it be? (It can be several courses!)
Arlo- Chantrelle's on top of grass fed rib-eye steak
Jessica- tacos and champagne
What do you love about most UCU’s Summer Show?
A&J- Getting to set-up the night before and the A/C !
Tell our readers what they should expect to see when they stop by and see you at UCU.
A&J- New designs and colors. New styles. Arlo with a new hairstyle and/or beard length.
Lastly, would you like to submit anything for our fabulous blog giveaways ahead of the show?
A&J- Sure. We will give away one of our Unisex blue crab t-shirts, size small, Medium, Large or XLarge!
