Our Story

 The Creative Path began in 2010 as a graphic design studio founded by Kim Carty.

Ever since Kim won an award in primary school for her redesign of the book cover for Peter Pan she wanted to be a designer. With a love of colour, nature and simplicity and with inspiration from her two children she started the journey of designing activity books after not being able to find the types she wanted to buy for them.

The idea emerged when Kim's 9 year old daughter Luka, who has a passion for creative writing was slowly piling up the pages of stories that she had began writing before quickly getting a new idea and moving on to the next story. Starting to wonder what they were going to do with all these interesting and wonderful starts of stories, Luka and Kim had the idea to design a creative writing activity book and share these story starters with other children who might find starting a story tricky and give them the opportunity to continue and finish the stories. From there "Plug into your imagination" was born.

Luka says that when she writes she feels free and the vision for "Plug into your imagination" activity book was to share this feeling and create a resource that was visually inspiring that would encourage children to grow confidence in creative writing while having fun!

The design of "Plug into nature" was to be the next activity book Kim would embark on. Again inspired by her family and the love of watching her husband Andrew who is a botanist teaching Luka and Jack all about the wonderful plants and animals we share our environment with. The idea that unplugging from our digital devices and simply plugging into the natural world around us became an important message that Kim wanted to share with children. The idea that if we stop, listen and start looking we will discover amazing things that we have never seen before. Kim started the mission to design a fun and educational activity book focusing on nature and biodiversity that was visually inspiring and would help children to connect with nature and recognise that we play an important role in protecting our environment.

With the very valuable help and advice from teachers, parents and students,
Kim has loved every minute of designing these resources. 

Many more ideas for visually inspiring resources for children have now emerged and has now become a passion and vision for Kim. Through these resources Kim would love to create curiosity and activate children's minds to be inspired and love learning.

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We hope you love them as much as we do.