One Ear Brand - Mingei

Name: LOL Bean

Color: Mingei

Size: 70 x 70cm

LOL Bean is a playful homage to one of our favourite vintage items. LL Bean first produced a duck blanket back in the 1930s. The blanket's simple, soft colours and tranquil scene of ducks flying over a grassy marsh are great designs. We have redrawn some of the elements from the blanket and reinterpreted them into LOL Bean. Ducks are circling some Irish Setter dogs in a sort of playful mockery, all the while dropping feathers on them.

The colour scheme combines the original blanket colours and some Japanese inspiration. Yanagi Soetsu started the "mingei" craft movement in Japan. He encouraged many small towns that were craft producers to create museums dedicated to preserving local traditional crafts. He often wore clothing that was a mix of Japanese and Western fashion. The colours of his clothing and the colours of local crafts in Japan have this very rich colour palette (especially pottery). We incorporated these colours into the bandanna design. The smooth clay-like grey with the rusty orange/brown. You may notice the strong use of gradation to produce a more blanket-like feel of the line design. A bandanna is a simple design that feels like it's in motion, in a colour scheme that looks great any time of the year. Classic on classics.