Kiin is a multi-brand platform (and a soon to be physical space) built to support and connect creatives at any stage. At its core, Kiin is about community but more than that, it's about resourceful creativity and doing the most with what we have. Kiin exists to make sure tools are accessible, opportunities are collaborative, and each creative experience is validating. All Kiin's initiatives are designed to grow with the people it serves and adapt to the needs of each community it is planted in.

Think of this page as a snapshot in time. Behind the scenes, Kiin is constantly evolving, and these pages will grow as new ideas become experiences within the community. Click on any of the icons below to understand what Kiin is trying to do and why:

Materials are carefully sorted, understood, and given a purpose, with colour-coded tags showing where they came from. By partnering with local businesses to transform waste into workshops and products, SM/LE closes the loop—turning discarded materials into opportunities for connection and creation.

SM/LE (Save, Make, Learn, Envolve) is the foundation of Kiin. By collecting and repurposing materials like paper, cardboard, wood, fabric, and plastic, it provides the resources used to create NED's creative-wear, Salvillage's furniture and paper products, and Naamio's tote bags. More than recycling, SM/LE is a circular system built around community, creativity, and thoughtful design.

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THIS IS ABOUT RESTORATION.

CREATIVE-WEAR FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE.

Ned - Notice Every Designer is about embracing each creative’s style, method and perspective. Ned exits to make sure that creativity is accessible regardless of the tools you use or how you use them. Whenever you work with your hands to make, design, or produce, Ned has something for your to be creative in.

SOMETHING TO BE CREATIVE IN

Ned has had a unique and complex journey over the years but it developed into what it was always meant to be: a blank canvas for showcasing authentic individuality and collaboration. Each item - The Set, The Jumpsuit, The overalls, The Smok and The Pouch was designed with a diverse variety of creative processes in mind.

PULP (Paper Under-Lines Points- in your progress, your process and your purpose) Made from hand-dyed, handmade paper, designed to hold 100 naturally adhesive pointed tabs. PLACE are creatively shaped book marks made fromtheleftover paper scraps from PULP.

The WOULD (We Only Use the Less Desireable) Stool is made from reclaimed pallet wood and fabric. It's assembly, as well as its design, is simple and is a physical representation of what it means to be resourceful with creativity in mind.

Seat Four is a set of four interchangeable cushioned stools. Constructed from plywood offcuts and repurposed textiles, the focus was on structural interlocking systems, stability when connected, and modular flexibility.

The Art Board is just that - a board on which to let creative ideas flow. It carries essential tools and all the paper you need for intentional sketching.

Salvillage (Salvage + Village) began with a simple realization: I was creating more waste than I was willing to ignore. Rather than discard leftover paper, reclaimed wood, and other materials from creative projects, I challenged myself to design with them intentionally.

The result was the WOULD (We Only Use the Less Desirable) Stool, Seat Four, Pulp + Place, and the Art Board—products that transform overlooked resources into thoughtful design. Salvillage exists to prove that sustainability isn't just about reuse; it's about creating value, accountability, and collaboration from what's already available.

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NAAMIO was born from too many false starts, abandoned ideas, and the feeling that nothing I made was ever quite good enough. Rather than walk away from the creative process, I turned to screen printing—a practice built on experimentation, mistakes, and persistence.

NAAMIO exists to support those who feel left behind in their creativity. Through print, it reframes trial and error as experience, frustration as forgiveness, self-doubt as self-worth, and uncertainty as part of the process. More than a print project, it's an invitation to embrace the unconventional, the unsure, and the unacknowledged through art.

ABANDONED PRINTS

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LHAF (Love Had a Face) is about reconnecting with what we may have missed out on in the form of Life, Opportunities, Validation, and Encouragement Through currated events. Our first event theme will be about collaboration click below for more deails:

The FAHL is a mini, partly animated audio series focussing on creatives who’ve paused, pivoted or started over later in life.

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KIIN SPACES

Kiin’s foundations are resourceful creativity and authentic collaboration so that’s what each of its spaces are built on. Kiin’s commitment to providing support through creative development shows up in four different ways: making, connecting, collaborating and growing.

THE MAKING SPACE exists to provide the right tools. Memberships allow access to creative equipment, supplies, and materials. We sometimes find ourselves as creatives on the cusp of a breakthrough when we hit a financial shaped wall.

This wall often makes us say “if only I had _____” or “what if I didn’t have to____”. Kiin’s making space endeavors to fill in those gaps so our members won’t have to.

THE GROWING SPACE exists to provide guidance. Memberships allow access to classes, sessions and panels. Creative development shouldn’t be gatekept. The path should be open and flexible. It shouldn’t cost everything you have to be on it, nor should it exist without fairly acknowledging those who paved it.

Kiin’s growing space makes it possible for creative educators of every style and method to reach those willing to to develop their skills and minds.

THE CONNECTING SPACE exists to provide the right foundation. Building on the right professional relationships and opportunities can be the difference between creative validation and insecurity.

This space is about being given the right materials as much as it is about acknowledging what you already have. This isn’t a networking space to network - it’s a place wher members are given what they need to be recognized by the right people in a meaningful and honest way.

THE COLLABORATING SPACE exists to provide authentic, handmade design in two ways: through Ko-Llab and Kiinshop. Ko-Llab represents what it means to work directly with one of Kiin’s core brands (ned, Salvillage, NAAMIO, ODAAT) to produce something where multiple hands are involved.

Collaborating with Kiinshop looks a little different - it acts as a platform for independent brands, designers, artists and makers to uniquely support themselves in a way that respects their work as well as Kiin’s creative philosophy.