Soda by Amy

After spending a few moments studying a collection of charms by designer Amy Allison, one is left wondering, is there a secret door into Amy’s hand-drawn dream-like world? Just how can one get the secret key required to enter this wonderland of little bunnies hopping through fields of poppies? Does one need a password to peer at the love-struck pair of young birds, fluttering about a forest and kissing along the way? Perhaps there will be tall ladder to climb to view the flittering butterflies happily resting on sweet-smelling flowers and colorful wild weeds?

Then, after further studying Amy’s products, you begin to ponder where this imaginative world resides. This wonderland of creatures rivals the compelling creativity of Walt Disney in his early days. Ironically, to make the story all the more whimsical and filled with a preserve of paradox, Amy’s art studio and corporate office are actually located in the middle of the urban cityscape of Chicago. She works, with no exaggeration, less than 50 yards from an industrial working train line. Hardy the imaginative fairy-tale surroundings featured on her products. Yet this is where Amy founded her company, Soda, that designs and manufactures products all based on her sketches. The drawings include playful wild wilderness animals, butterfly-filled forests, and romantic robots that simply must have crawled right out of her wonderland of dreams.

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