Hammocks and High Tea

Karen of Clothes-Pin has debuted a new line of hand-screened cards (go gocco!). Hammocks and High Tea is inspired by Karen's South American, tropical upbringing. So pretty and colorful!

Bob's Your Uncle

Humorous paper accessories from Bob's Your Uncle. I like how the text refers to the action associated with whatever you are tagging/reading/filing. The "Disposable Paper Bookmarks" come in a tear-off pad of four designs: Unputdownable; Once Upon A Time; Happily Ever After and I Laughed, I Cried.

Lure Catalog

Sean and I are excited to present a new series of prints...The Lure Catalog is inspired by the perennial ritual of learning how to fish - waking up at dawn, greeting the crisp, cool air with a sleepy grin and finding your way over to that secret fishing hole. The Lure Catalog features 9 spinning lures including spoons, spinnerbaits, minnows, and insects.

Each lure is available as an individual 5"x7" print for $10, as well as in a combined print (15"x21"). All are silk-screened by hand on 300gsm archival Fabriano Magnani Pescia White paper. You can find the prints here.

Kleen-Bore Bad Guy Target

Bad Guy 23"x35" Target by Kleen-Bore is a perfect piece to have framed for your house. Except that you have to buy 100 of them at a time. So pick one up for yourself...and your 100 closest friends. Nothing says 'you're a good friend' like a shooting target.

Rainy Prints

Cute prints from Sherry of Rainy Prints. I like the illustrations of vintage chairs. They are a pretty good deal at $20.

Smack of Jellyfish

I came across these cards on Smack of Jellyfish's Etsy shop. Some of the classifications jog bits of long lost information from childhood, but some of the names really surprised me! A business of ferrets? A smack of jellyfish? What scientist came up with these? The idea was initially conceived for a children's book, but you can find prints and cards of each item on Etsy.

Bellis Studios

These cards by Bellis Studios are letterpressed, though I would never have guessed just by looking at them. I love the texture of the card and the unevenness of the ink. The card is available as a set of six for $12.95 or as a single card and envelope for $4 on Etsy here.

SammyDog Productions

I thought these note cards by SammyDog Productions were cute. They are inspired by vintage coasters. Love the blowfish and the monkey!

Sarah Erdmann - Lucky Star Press

I love this letterpress card by Sarah Erdmann of Lucky Star Press. The colors are beautiful, and the drawings are very sweet. It's available as a set of six cards and envelopes from her Etsy store for $12.

Pearl and Marmalade

I love these letterpress cards from Chicago-based Pearl and Marmalade. Run by two friends, Dani and Lee, Pearl and Marmalade's designs feature vintage drawings. They also make custom stationary. Visit their store here.

Papered Together

Beautiful vintage-inspired Valentine's Day cards from Papered Together on Etsy.

Keight Bergmann - Lure and Cast

I am loving these cards by Keight Bergmann, a graphic design student in Portland. The cards are letterpressed and come as a set of six for $12, available on Etsy. I like that they feel so textured - I always think of letterpressed items as being very clean and crisp.

Binth

I was introduced to Binth by Grace over at Design*Sponge. I love the prints they have up in their store, especially these Japanese-inspired silk-screens. Beautiful! Their valentine's day cards are super nice, too. Love the stitched look. Binth is a collaboration between Linnea Gits, Suzanna Bierwirth, and Peter Dunham.

Jessica Gary - Insurgentmuse

Sean and I are printing our save-the-dates with our trusty gocco and were having issues with the solid areas of color. Anyway, did a search on the internet to see if anyone out there had any guidance, and came across Jessica Gary instead, aka Insurgentmuse, who didn't really have any advice but definitely has some cute gocco-pressed cards!

Design*Sponge Shop

We are very excited to announce our inclusion in the January Design*Sponge shop. The cards above are from the Sea Pattern series and are available in a pack of four (one of each design) for $16, with shipping included.

Grace Bonney also launched a really great new project - she is raising money for a scholarship fund for three design students, which will be awarded later in the year. 100% of the proceeds from the following the items in the shop will go towards this award (as well as a percentage of the ad revenue): the Tug Drawing and Chair Drawing by Alyson Fox, the A-LIGHT by RE-SURFACE (Donna Brady), and beautiful handprinted pillows by Lena Corwin. I hope you will check these out and support Grace in this new endeavor!

Jill Bliss

These are the native herb posters by Jill Bliss who draws inspiration from the world around her, her interests originating from her childhood on her family's farm in northern California. Each poster is 16" x 20" and is printed on recycled matte card stock with soy-based inks.

Updated store

We wanted to announce updates to our online store. There are a bunch of new prints available, including prints from our visible:invisible panorama series (details of the prints above), and prints from the catalog specimen series, among others. We hope you'll take a peek!

Erin Zam

Grace posted about this nice calendar on Design*Sponge. I love the look and that it is reusable (use pencil!) and super portable. It is available from Erin Zam's Etsy store. Check it out!

Jason Sho Green

I love these paper doll gift tags from Jason Sho Green. Very cool.

Via NotCot.

Imaginary Friends

Sumana sent over a link to Imaginary Friends' beautiful new animal-themed Rare Beauty card series. I love the knysna seahorse and the panamanian golden frog. Each card is hand-silkscreened.

Gift Guide - Paper Goods: Port2Port Press

For a nice gift that keeps on giving throughout the year, consider Maria of Port2Port Press' Card Society. You can sign up for a one, three, six or twelve month subscription, and the recipient will receive two unique cards per month. Each card is a limited edition print, that will never be repeated. All cards are hand printed by Maria on a Pilot letterpress and have a blank interior. Subscriptions to the Card Society vary from $16 - $134.

Gift Guide - Paper Goods: Heiko Windisch

Thanks to Heiko Windisch, for pointing us towards his new postcard set. All postcards are signed by Heiko unless otherwise requested. Sets are available for $10.50.

Gift Guide - Paper Goods: Ichthyo-Series Notecards

We know this is shameless self-promotion, but Sub-Studio @ Etsy.com stocks the Ichthyo-Series of notecards. The cards are hand silkscreened on 100lb. cardstock and come individually packaged for $3.50 per card.

Gift Guide - Paper Goods: D-Bros

Again, my favorite D-Bros, with their playful Tale Tail note book. The center page has an illustration of a horse, which you can glimpse through semi-transparent writing pages. The place holder mimics a horses tail - cuteness.

Gift Guide - Paper Goods: Ordning & Reda

Ordning & Reda is the paper goods branch of Bodum. They have a huge selection of planners and diaries available for 2007. The journals are available in a range of colors and fabric or leather and are designed with the same simplicity as the Bodum glassware and kitchenware.

Gift Guide - Paper Goods: The Kenspeckle Letterpress

The Kenspeckle Letterpress makes a wide range of beautiful prints and notecards. Shown are the Dancing Loon (left) and the Two Chickadees (right).

Gift Guide - Paper Goods: Sesame Letterpress

Lovely coasters from Brooklyn-based Sesame Letterpress. Each coaster is hand-pressed on heavyweight, absorbent beverage board with a rubber-based ink that won't run. Available for $10 from Elsewares.

Gift Guide - Paper Goods: Nava Design

For any of your friends who keep journals, here is "one year of white pages" - a collection of moleskine-esque journals from Nava Design in Italy. There are twelve books in total, with 80 pages per journal. A hole is punched out of the edge for each month. $35 from Rare Device.

Foxy and Winston

I love these cards from Foxy and Winston. I like how she incorporates the lace into her drawings. Pretty!

Banded Rudderfish

This is the first of hopefully many hand-screened cards to come. From the upcoming FISH series, this is the Banded Rudderfish.

Until we figure out how to set up a store on our website, we will be selling the cards through our Etsy shop.

Christmas Cards

These made me laugh.

A christmas card by B Designs. For those who didn't behave. Available at Greer Chicago online.

And for all the greedy kids out there:



This card is from Sidepony, aka Kimberly Dawn Robertson. Her cards tend a little too much toward the hipster side for my tastes, but I couldn't resist this one.

Yee-Haw Industries

Cards from Yee-Haw Industries. This set is from the Farmer's Market Series. I'm not sure how I feel about having to buy the entire set for $50 rather than being able to buy just the tomato cards or something, but they are very nice nonetheless. Also, they have super cute Christmas cards, but I just can't bring my self to post about anything holiday related until at LEAST after halloween! I feel like the Christmas frenzy starts earlier and earlier every year...

Port2Port Press

This month's card from Port2Port Press:



I love the colors and the composition. Maria creates one limited edition card a month. Each card is handmade on her Pilot letterpress. Her cards are available via her Etsy store, as well as at online stores Little Paper Planes, Papastour, and Petaline.

Via Design*Sponge.

Apak Studio

Nice cards from Ayumi Piland of Apak Studio. Ayumi is 1/2 of Apak Studio: Aaron Piland is her husband and partner. They are both talented illustrators, and while it seems a lot of their work is done separately, some of their best work comes via their collaborations:

Blend Creations

Pretty stationary from Blend Creations. I wanted to show more of their work but the images on their website are so small!

Via Modish.

Sesame Letterpress

I came across Sesame Letterpress at IIKH this weekend. Beautiful stationary. Nice coasters, too, if I actually used them. Sesame Letterpress is a Brooklyn based design team - Breck Hostetter and Matt Heindl. From the Flickr stream I came across while doing a google search for Sesame Letterpress, it seems that Breck and Matt just had a baby. Congratulations!

Moontree Letterpress

Subtle stationary from Moontree Letterpress in Brooklyn, NY. Everything is printed on a Heidelberg Windmill press.