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Guest Blog – Yoko Ishikawa, owner of Japanese boutique store Norr Kyoto
Guest Blog – Yoko Ishikawa, owner of Japanese boutique store Norr Kyoto In May 2023 we travelled to Japan for a 3 week adventure of a lifetime! We started in Tokyo, then travelled on the Shinkansen (aka. Bullet Train) to Kyoto, Osaka & Hiroshima. On our stop in Kyoto we met up with Yoko, a lovely lady that got in touch back in 2020 after we had just finished our trade show at Top Drawer to see if we would supply her with our stationery to her store called Norr Kyoto. It was such a pleasure to finally meet in...
National Afternoon Tea Week
Ok so I might’ve thought it started next week on the 15th August, discovered yesterday morning that it started on Monday. So that was good. Cue frantic photography. Yesterday was spent in the blazing heat finding the prettiest flowers in the garden to add to the image above (and before we receive emails saying how if you try to make tea out of any of the flowers used you’ll poison yourself they were purely for prop purposes only, promise!) Naturally we are going to put a few photos of our Afternoon Tea Collection on here, but what I think you...
Creating our new Art Deco theme
There are certain words that spring to most people’s minds when you ask them to describe the Art Deco movement, ‘sleek’, ‘glamorous’, ‘bold’, ‘elegant’. All of which we wanted to capture in the designs for each component. For each new theme, as mentioned in previous blogs, we have a bit of a product formula in terms of elements needed to turn it into a theme. The first design is always the tissue paper, as more often than not it features a number of illustrations that we then take pieces of to put into the other products; A5 paper, A6 notebook,...
Case study with Noissue Tissue
I recently had the fantastic opportunity to be asked by NoIssue to take part in one of their case studies for their website. I discovered them on Instagram when searching for innovative packaging options and thought it’d be a great way to introduce a new product at the same time as providing a means to wrap the stationery in a beautiful way and avoiding the use of plastic. It’s only in the last few months that biodegradable greeting card wrappers have become readily available in the UK, which is another great option for the future, but for now I like...