maria cabo is a colombian artist-designer based in NYC. maria graduated last year from the fashion institute of technology in new york with a degree on textile and surface design and currently works as a freelance designer. she has a website here and a full portfolio here.
night owl paper goods have created a series of cool tote prints and are inviting people to vote for their favourite. cast your vote here.
lemon ribbon is a new print studio based in london. founded by designer melanie bullock lemon ribbon have just launched a new website, licensing portfolio, and design consultancy service. melanie and her business partner edward weale will be creating fresh original prints, characters and graphics to licence and will be exhibiting at indigo paris later this month and in london at the brand licensing show. US readers can see them at surtex next may. click here for more info. 
one of lemon ribbon's recent projects was to create a gorgeous range of cards for twizler. the london based print & graphics studio designed two ranges 'midnight garden' and 'bailey and friends'.
the calendar season is really getting underway now, and this one from linda and harriet has a clever twist. they have printed a postcard on the back so once the month has expired the patterned part can be detached and sent to a loved one, friend, etc. as seen here.
today is all about the beautiful designs of carolyn gavin. as well as designing for her family business ecojot carolyn also works as a freelance designer for lots of great clients through her agent lilla rogers. if like me you love carolyn's work then you will want to follow her brilliant blog 'designer jots'. its a fascinating read to see how her work has been applied to various products and carolyn loves to ask our opinion on colour schemes as she tries out different designs.
