Blog — Stationery sets

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...

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,...

What with the launch of our new Ethereal Collection, it seemed fitting for our next little blog post to be all about the importance of writing letters. One really important benefit is that it promotes mindfulness. You can type and text at record speeds but there’s only so fast you can write a letter (well, one that the receiver can read anyway!) Similarly to drawing or painting, it creates a sense of calmness and relieves anxiety, the whole process forces you to slow down and take care with every word. Unlike an email or text where you have the constant opportunity...

Remember the scene in Love Actually when Rowan Atkinson spends what seems like a lifetime wrapping a gift for Alan Rickman’s character? Well I love all that! I have always had an obsession about packaging and I’m not even going to say how many pins on Pinterest I have purely for packaging design. I buy the beautifully scented products at eye-watering prices from Jo Malone mainly for the fact they almost re-inact this Love Actually scene when getting my ‘gift for a friend…(but it’s really for me)’ item in front of me.     I think I’m also one of...