STUDIO WALD
Husband and wife team Jakob Creswell-Rost and Freya Hawtin met while studying a degree in 3D design at Leeds. After graduating and gaining further qualifications in Fine Art and Graphic Design, the couple moved to Brighton and started up a business using their skills to produce design-led stationery and gifts with bold prints using techniques such as letterpress, risograph and lithography.
In 2016 Jakob & Freya moved from Brighton back to Leeds, and a year later with the business gaining momentum, went for a Brand redesign and became Wald, offering interesting and affordable homewares, prints and stationery with a focus on sustainable materials. They extended the range of products to incorporate lino print and digital design, and later landed some exciting collaborations with large companies such as Bloom & Wild, Science Museum and the Victoria & Albert.
With Wald becoming busier than ever the couple still managed to organise their beautiful wedding in 2018, not to mention raising their three wonderful little humans! Jakob's mother Ulrike helps out with creating lino print and pattern, and together the team manage to get their work-life balance just about right. In 2019 the business moved to a studio workshop located by the docks in Leeds city centre. Set in a historic old Tetley Brewery building (now owned by a cooperative), it's surrounded by a bustling bit of town and being very much their second home, it helps them feel connected to their city.
I love to support small, innovative designers and when I met Jakob & Freya at a trade show loved their clever, modern take on simple objects, and their real passion for using sustainable materials. I've chosen a small selection of their products that aren't necessarily something you knew you needed, but once you see them feel you can't do without!
Charity
Green Tulip Founder
The coasters are excellent quality, a really lovely design, and really reasonably priced. They were shipped and delivered quickly and just an all 'round positive experience and purchase.
I can't comment on the actual products I ordered because they were all gifts, but the packaging is good and everything attractive. The order came quickly. There is such a huge choice on the website I will certainly be using it again.
Always loved these bags and now have found one which is kind to the earth and looks so cheery and can be taken anywhere with all the goodies or everyday essentials if you're not using for groceries etc.
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