Yellow Green Red: Lithuanian t-shirts!

Oi folks!
Just realized I've totally forgot to write a post on something I've been working on recently over here in Lithuania. So, I'm keeping my very own Kata Kiosk small business adventure going by launching a new t-shirt collection 'Yellow Green Red'.

The flag or heart shaped screen printed illustrations made of folk, traditional and modern symbols of the nation, colored it three colors matching the colors of the flag - yellow, green and red - is fun and simple, though conceptual and artsy gift idea for someone having few sentiments for this country with a hard-to-spell name. But it's my country and I love it.

Illustrations are screen-printed on 100% cotton (athletic gray) t-shirts of different sizes and models (for Men, Women, Children). And I'm especially proud to say that these t-shirts are locally made in Vilnius, Lithuania.

So in case you've ever been to Lithuania and have warm memories about the experience, or if you know any home-sick Lithuanians abroad or children of a Lithuanian parent, you can buy these t-shirts at Kata Kiosk Etsy store and if you plan to visit Lithuania in near future as a tourist and you would like to get one of these for yourself or for someone back home, drop me a line to katakiosk (at) gmail (dot) com, so I could give you directions of the nearest stores to your place of stay over here.

LITHUANIAN FLAG SHAPE T-SHIRT

LITHUANIAN HEART SHAPE TSHIRT

KATA KIOSK at ETSY

Lithuanian souvenirs

Hi everyone, just a short reminder in case you're visiting Lithuania and looking for last minute hip souvenirs in airports or stations, these are my creations:

Press here to enlarge. ©Kotryna Zukauskaite, 2012

more information at www.katakiosk.lt or at Kata Kiosk' facebook page

Working on details

Hi everyone, sorry for having no time to update my blog recently. I've just moved back to Vilnius from Moscow and of-course sank in hundreds of meetings, packing and distributing Kata Kiosk stuff to various places, working on various assignments (more about that in future posts) and meeting people, people I've really missed while being in Moscow. It's great to come back and still find long-time friends over here and speak to them as if I've just seen them a day ago.

Well, but the main reason for writing this blog-update is the fact that recently I've focused on children's fiction illustration and working on details which for some time was a hard thing for me to do. As you've probably read in my 2012 resolution I've promised myself this year to dig deeper into things that interest me and children's book and other children-aimed illustration was one of those themes. So I've worked on details with no rush. This action has produced two things: few children's books illustration examples for hunting more picture book / children's fiction literature assignments and a T-shirt for children with a surreal but also detailed print on it. Take a look:

©Kotryna Žukauskaitė, 2012

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So the Tshirt's print is based on a contemporary angle of Lithuanian mythology and inspired by well known idea of Tree of Life. I've tried to mix some symbols of contemporary Lithuania (such as air balloons flying over heads in Vilnius on sunny days or architecture of the city) with more folkloric symbols, such as weaved ornaments, wooden craft and fairy-tale-like half-dragon-half-adder creature. Tried my best, so this is how it looks.

These Tshirts and some other Kata Kiosk items are available to see or buy in my recently updated Etsy store HERE . Sneak-peek:


all items ©Kotryna Žukauskaitė, 2012