Giveaway: Mama, Is It Summer Yet? by Artist Nikki McClure

Nikki McClure, renown papercut artist based in Olympia , WA who has been featured in the documentary Handmade Nation and illustrated the bestselling book All In A Day has kindly offered to do a giveaway on INK+WIT. McClure has her first authored children’s book Mama, Is It Summer Yet? due out this May from Abrams. This book is delightful. Full of warm sentiment about a little boy asking his mother if it is summer yet as they watch the seasons change together. Nikki's papercut illustrations are bold and delicate and her writing simple and endearing.

To enter the giveaway, simply add a comment below about summer and how it uplifts you. Winner will be announced May 16.

Good Luck!

All Animals Love Life

Clover the goat incredibly well and happy at the amazing Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. Jenny and Doug are my idols and I love them infinitely for the help they provide animals. All animals have the same spark of light as we do. They feel everything and yearn to have a life just like us.

Can I adopt this goat. So cute!!!!

Can I Live Here This Summer?

This place looks like a dream to me right now. Waking up with the sun coming straight down on my face in the morning and then meditating. Or, maybe I will just have a contractor cut a hole in our roof above our bed. Would not be the same though.

Woodstock Handmade House, by Robert Haney and David Ballantine.

Young at Heart

This image from Small Magazine made me smile ear to ear. Totally reminded me of a picture from the 70's my mom took of me. She used to dress me up in cuffed jeans, ponytails, and tees. We had so many cool pics oceanfront when we lived in Coco Beach, Florida back in the day. So many pictures were lost because we moved constantly. It was refreshing to see the purity and bliss in this image. It totally brought me back to going to the beach everyday as a kid.

Photographer: Jen Altman
www.jeniferaltman.com
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INK+WIT Giveaway on Fine Little Day

I am so excited to offer a giveaway at Elisabeth Dunker's lovely blog, Fine Little Day. Elisabeth is one of my favorite artists and designers and her blog inspires me each and everyday. The giveaway only requires you leave a comment in the post here and the winner will be chosen Monday. Giveaway details below on what you win! Enjoy.

A linen wall hanging of Fox & Friends silkscreen printed with water based inks on medium weight linen. Each wall hanging, or tea towel, if you wish, is 13" x 20". Also included is one of our new letterpress notecards, "Spoons & Bowls" printed on 100% cotton paper made from tree free fibers accompanied with a sunny yellow matching pin.

These new items will be up on our site Wednesday this week.

Poster Sale with Free Pommebirds Print / Free Shipping over $100

Welcome to a great INK+WIT sale where you can save on all our current posters and receive a free best selling letterpress Pommebirds print for a limited time through Monday May 10th. All our posters fit a standard 16x20 frame.

There is no promo code. You automatically receive the print with the poster order. All posters are printed on recycled paper with soy inks. They make a great gift for summer baby showers, birthday parties, and maybe even to yourself! These will soon discontinue as we are doing limited edition prints and posters only now so get one while you can and save.

Wishing you well and stay tuned next week for more sneak peeks of the new line debuting at the National Stationery Show May 16-19 at the Javitz Convention Center in New York, NY.

Ferry Staverman

Ferry Staverman Modefabriek,RAI, Amsterdam, 26 en 27 juli 2009

(found via decor8)

Studio Bliss / NSS Prep and a lot of new INK+WIT

I think I get a new shipment of something everyday. What can I say, last minute ideas and life of wearing about 7 hats right now.

In the last week alone I have made 3 new sheets of wrapping paper, a poster, catalogs, and some surprises I cannot reveal until the show. Somehow my brain is still working (thanks to yoga) and I can smile upon a new bundle of designs I have long waited to make and share.

In the last year I set out to move beyond paper products as I have a passion for 3D sculptural objects and textiles. This summer I will be debuting children's wallpaper. I have had a demand for it which is nice to know and the printers are in place thanks to the lovely Aimee Wilder who I just adore and recently had lunch with at raw food cafe One Lucky Duck at 17th and Irving in New York City. (one of my favorites)

I am trying my best to post some images here and there this week of new product that will be at the show so stay tuned and in the meantime enjoy the warm weather and I hope to see you at our booth, 2149, May 16-19 at the Javitz in Manhattan.

Featured above are new letterpress cards printed by Boxcar Press and my new linen wall hangings, or a smaller size tea towel, made from lovely medium weight linen silkscreened with water based inks and sewn with complete love.

Jacob Hashimoto

Jacob Hashimoto may now be my favorite contemporary artist. His paper sculptures and installations are magical and uplifting, light and airy. I could easily see his delicate white hanging paper lantern discs, which look cloud like to me, hanging at a wedding reception. It makes me want to recreate my wedding day.

Jacob Hashimoto is well known for his "kites". A series of large scale sculptural forms suspended front eh ceiling and integrating themselves with e space like air. Bamboo rods, string, and offset prints are used to create the "kites". This is an installation I would love to see in a yoga shala. I could imagine being on my back ready to go into a full wheel (chakrasana/backbend) and locking up into these paper clouds.

Lotty Lindeman

Netherlands designer, Lotty Lindeman / Shown: Tentlamp made of textile volumes and ceramic beads