Dean Morris interview
Clown
Prince
To celebrate his tenth
anniversary of exhibiting
at Top Drawer, Dean Morris
looks back on his career
in greetings.
always used to make handmade cards
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for friends and family ever since I was
young, but after leaving university where
I had done a degree in fi ne art (big scary
fi ve foot square canvasses – different to
small 5x7 cards) I didn’t know what to
do as a career.
I ended up doing clerical work in a local
building society until 1998 when I went into
Paperchase and saw all the textured paper and
thought I should have a go at making some
handmade cards. It was only then that I started to
think I could do this as a business.
Fortunately, I managed to get a place on a
locally run scheme to enable young designer/
makers develop their business ideas. This allowed
me to go part time at the building society and
devote more time to developing the business and
working on the very fi rst designs I commercially
sold. The scheme, the Design Workers Foundation,
also had a shared stand at Top Drawer Autumn
1999, which was my fi rst foray into trade shows
and where I took orders from the shops, which are
still my customers today.
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