What art colleges do you supply in the UK?Īll over – from Brighton and Plymouth in the South to the famous UAL to Cardiff Met, Glyndwr University Wrexham, and further north – Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow School of Art , Edinburgh College of Art…Įdinburgh? I went to Edinburgh College of Art myself – so if I was there today, I’d probably be buying your pads from the college shop. Seawhite graph paper pads – new additions to the range for summer 2015 – packaging (covers) designed by Toop Studio. We spent about 10 years there, and then decided to come back to Sussex again – to Partridge Green, and that’s when the business really took off. It lasted into the early 1980s – the site had to be developed, so we went to Worcestershire to carry on making them. This is back in the mid to late seventies.Īnd how long did you work from Waterloo Street?
There was only about three of four of us. Well, there was Julian, who still works in our Sales department today, myself and my father and my brother Nick.
We were already supplying PVA glue and plastic for vacuum forming to several educational establishments – and we did also supply paper to a few of them, so it was a natural progression to start offering bound sketchbooks. I’m probably the least artistic person in the company. So why did you move from adhesives to sketchbooks? Were any of you artists? The first ever Seawhite sketchbook (right) was based on a hardback plastic encapsulated auto manual.Īnd then the book bindery got into trouble, and we were selling a few more of these sketchbooks by then, so we bought the company. I think the first customer we had actually was the Sir John Cass School of Art, which is now part of London Met. One day my father said to them ‘could you make us a book with blank paper in it as a sketchbook’ – which they did – and he went to London and sold it to people like Central St. So our connection was we supplied adhesive to them. Yeah, in the 70s, those hard-backed manuals, I remember.
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They used to produce car manuals – do you remember when people used to do DIY on their own cars? Shaun Tobin (MD of Seawhite): Well Seawhite is a family company. We started in Brighton in 1973 as an adhesive supplier. My father was supplying PVA glue to a book bindery in Waterloo Street in Hove. Shadric Toop: So tell me how it all started then…
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