CHRISTMAS GRAPHICS

these designs were spotted in the window of a chocolate shop.

CHRISTMAS shapes

there are christmas motifs a plenty at oriental trading.

ARTWORK - collage

really cute collage pictures from san francisco based artist lorena siminovich at velocity. made from a mixture of painted and printed paper.

ARTWORK - prints

cool deer prints using the trend for woodgrain & lace doilys by estela lugo from modern dose.

XMAS TREE napkins

paper napkin from tesco, featuring this years popular theme 'graphic trees'.

XMAS WRAP - habitat

here is some unusual wrapping paper from last years 'habitat' christmas range. the only festive wrapping paper i have ever seen that features cows.

CATH KIDSTON - mobiles

for the pattern designer that has everything how about these new mobile phones from cath kidston for nokia.

PAPERCHASE - baroque

this christmas paperchase has gone baroque, with these ornate patterns appearing on everything from photo albums to ipod covers .

PAPERCHASE - cards

christmas cards from paperchase.

XMAS MOTIFS

above christmas trees from jonathan adler and snowflake plates, all from bed bath & beyond.

SAN FRANCISCO - japan town

from las vegas i ended my US vacation in san francisco, where my favourite shop was without doubt kinokuniya in cisco's japan town. all the photographs below were taken in the large kinokuniya bookstore or in the kinokuniya card and gift shop opposite. here you'll find thousands of japanese books and magazines ,and in j-town itself plenty more shops selling everything japanese such as housewares, kimono's, ceramics, and food.

SAN FRANCISCO - cody's

card & stationary designs as snapped in cody's book at 2 stockton street, san francisco.