ILLUSTRATION - geos

nice graphic flowers in illustrations by pernilla lonhage.

ILLUSTRATION - isa form

with these delightful childrens prints from isa form the customer is involved in the creative process, you can choose the colourway, the text, and a frame, making it a truly personal gift. illustrated by isabelle norman, click the website to see more of her lovely work.

SCRAPBOOK - new designs

a couple of new designs from imagination project.

ILLUSTRATION - new magazine

okido is a new bi-monthly magazine for 2-7 year olds, but it also has enormous appeal to illustrators and designers. its so stylish looking that it even confused the staff at borders who have put it in the design section instead of the childrens dept. each issue costs £3.00 in borders or click the website for subscription details.

CARD - cups & mugs

this is a nice ideas from carlton cards - on the front with the lovely decorated cups are the words 'lets meet up' and inside '.....for drinks and a chat'.

DESIGNER - new patterns

the brilliant carrie ruby has added a few new patterns to her carrieayn website.

CUTE ONLINE SHOP - seamripper

ive been looking again at one of my fave websites seamripper. its not just the cute designs of the online shop and the super sweet illustrations, but the overall look and feel of kathleen habbleys website that i love. ive posted before on kathleens cool CV, but if you havent seen it before its brilliant. it has certainly inspired me to make an illustrated CV for myself.

VINTAGE FABRIC - smil

blogging definately links design throughout the world now, better than ever before. through decor8 highlighting new online marketplace dawanda, i was immediately drawn to this apple print from from smil and i found out they already had linked to here and enjoy print & pattern. take a look here a smil's website to see some cute vintage fabrics, and also have fun checking out this new european version of etsy - dawanda.

FLICKR - thankyou

huge thanks to everyone who visited my new flickr site yesterday. over 2400 of you decided to check it out, and the welcome was pretty warm - thankyou so much. this was the most popular picture of the day - a photograph of one of my ideas folders.

CARDS - the art file

i love this range of cards from ally gore and rob reader - many of them have cutout areas with print inside creating cool 3d effects. click to see the collection at the art file.

CARDS - amanda dilworth

more cards from the art file, this time by amanda dilworth.

FLICKR - print & pattern

you may have noticed in the left hand column a box for the flickr website. ive finally gotten around to loading up some of the many photos ive taken for print & pattern. i'll be gradually adding more pictures and sorting them into sets. hopefully it will become a nice additional resource library to accompany this blog. so far im only adding pictures ive taken myself - click here to check it out.

ALICE STEVENSON - cards & wrap

ive featured alice stevenson's sophistcated illustrations here on P+P before, but the good news is that now alice's work is available on cards & gift wrap from art angels. art angels is a card publishing business with lots of great artists, including angie lewin (see next post). shop owners can contact them for wholesale, they have agents all over the world, or to find a retailer near you visit art angels website.

below - 2 designs available as wrapping paper.

ANGIE LEWIN - books & notecards

also from art angels is the work of another print & pattern fave angie lewin. in the art angels collection are notebooks, notecards and greetings cards.

if you like angie lewin's work you might also like these prints by clare curtis also from art angels.