Artist and small business owner @ A22 Studio

A Stationery Brand

A22 Studio is a brand I created around my original character Legume, a black & white, long-legged dog. I design cute stationery products such as stickers, greeting cards, wrapping paper, notepads, and more.

It Started With Passion

Like every artist, I have been creating drawings and paintings for as long as I can remember. I have always looked towards Japanese kawaii pop culture icons such as Sanrio, San-X, Pokémon for inspiration and I admired how iconic and influential a well-designed character can be.

What I'm Proud Of

• Graduating from an Etsy shop to my own store hosted on Shopify
• 2M+ views on an Instagram reel
• Collaborating with other businesses such as Stickii Club and Dreamie Clothing
• Selling at both local and interstate art markets
• Designing and creating products that I personally use
• Over 20k followers across Tik Tok & Instagram
• Thousands of items sold!

I'm working towards...

• Getting into wholesale and being sold at a retail store
• Improving my art skills and range of mediums – 3D art is next
• Designing a plush toy of my character, Legume

Challenges

• Being consistent is really hard! When a business relies on continuous content creation, social media presence, on top of designing new products, it is easy to feel burnout.
• Having to juggle many different roles as a business owner strengthened my ability to prioritise tasks.