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I came across this colourful stationery range by Kikki K in London department store Fenwicks. Kikki K was founded in Melbourne in 2001 Kristina Karlsson and since then it has gained a reputation for beautiful Scandinavian designs inspired by Kristina's native Sweden. This particular range is called 'Cute' and features sweet little motifs such as animals and fruit in lovely pastel and bright

If you are looking for cute gift ideas then here are some ideas from UK retailer Accessorize. I had a browse around the store and website last week and picked out various designs on stationery, bags, and clothing.... Read the rest of this post

Whilst in Selfridges last Friday I found they had an Anthropologie concession so it was a nice chance to snap some of their latest products. Anthropologie have been working with an artist I really admire : Starla Michelle who creates the most beautifully colourful flowers and animals. Her artworks have been used on textiles, plates, wall art and an entire alphabet of pretty monogrammed mugs. I

Designer Susse Linton has a great little online shop selling her paper goods - such as these fun cactus cards. Susse has just added her Christmas designs to the store with lots of new Christmas cards and an A5 holiday activity book. The book contains patterned papers ready to make garlands, gift tags, etc. There is also a 2017 calendar featuring Susse's whimiscal illustrations. All available

A little bit of good news came through via email last week. Ampersand Design Studio are going to have their planners and calendars stocked in Target stores. Good luck to sisters Morgan and Carrie with this well deserved collaboration. Ampersand always produce the most beautiful and colourful artwork!

There are some truly bold and beautiful designs currently available from Red Cap Cards so it seemed like a wonderful chance to post up a showcase. Red Cap Cards is based in California and was founded by husband and wife Hal Mertz and Carrie Gifford. They collaborate with talented designers and illustrators giving them a platform to get their work noticed. Current artists include Carolyn Gavin,

'Good as Gold' is the brand new children's range by UK card publishers 'Paper Salad'. The collection includes 32 designs that all come with a neon bespoke envelope. Paper Salad have created fun, bright hand-painted designs featuring cute characters for ages 1-9 in both boy and girl. They also launched some brand new notebooks at Autumn Fair 2016. There are 6 in total which are finished with

It is this time of year thoughts turn to Christmas gift shopping and many of the online stores are already stocked with goodies. One of those is Bristol based Howkapow where co-founder and creative director Cat How has a good eye for design. The post begins with this colourful wrapping paper that is a Howkapow in-house exclusive. Other arrivals in the new Christmas selection include cushions

Super talented designer and illustrator Louise Lockhart has 10% off of everything in her shop throughout October so this gives me a lovely excuse  to showcase some her wonderful work. Louise produces her designs under the label The Printed Peanut all goods are proudly made n the UK. Products in her online shop include notebooks, cards, mugs, plates, books and bags. Use the coupon code '

My Maisons du Monde features are carrying over from last week. One because we had a day off to focus on the Sock Design Contest and two they have so many lovely things to see. The French based retailer was founded in 1996 and celebrates it's 20th birthday this year. It has nearly 200 stores in France with a further 69 across Europe including Italy where I came across them. There philosophy is

My best discovery and favourite store in Bologna, Italy was without doubt Maisons du Monde. This contemporary store felt like a mixture between Heals, West Elm and Ikea. It was packed with patterns on a wide variety of products. So this week I will be bringing you a selection of their products through my snapshots taken in store and web pictures. Their designs are all themed into collections

I am back from a very lovely hot and sunny Italy where I saw not only the Bowie show but also lots of prints and patterns which I will bring to you over the next few days. We begin with Italian department store Coin where I snapped various ranges in the Kitchen department. All the designs were branded with their own label coincasa.

And we end our Paperchase coverage with some snapshots from their Tottenham Court Roads shop. The first and second floors of this flagship store are full of gifts, paper goods and crafting materials. Here are some of the things I spotted on the day of the press show. Thanks to everyone who followed along with these posts for the last two weeks - Paperchase is a store who rely on surface pattern

We are nearly at the end of our Paperchase showcase and today we have a selection of new arrivals that have just gone on sale in stores and online. This beautiful Night Garden diary caught my eye and I wonder if we will see more items in this print. Scroll down for more notebooks, diaries, and the odd pencil case with motifs and themes that include wolves, unicorns, and washy watercolour

Paperchase is such a fantastic store to find surface design that I have yet more pics to bring you today. Here you can see a variety of notebooks, diaries, organisers and gifts. These hand painted animals with little geometric elements on notebooks (above & below) are a favourite of mine. Also standing out was another version the ever popular owl design and a mid century style design on a 

It is the last day of Paperchase Autumn/Winter 2016 previews and we conclude with two design collections that were shown at the Press Show on snack boxes. The first is Bird Garden a loosely drawn eye catching design that has the look of black felt tip illustrations which have then been digitally coloured. The hip flask is already online with more bits to follow soon.

Also new at Paperchase for A/W16 is 'Mermazing'. This design features a single placement print of a  mermaid and lots of fun hand drawn typography. Paperchase regularly create fantasy style designs (like the current Purrmaids) and this is in a similar vein.

Today's sneak previews feature children's designs from Paperchase's Autumn Winter 2016 offering. The first is 'Headgangers' a fun new graphic kids design from Paperchase. It features black and white photographs of cats, dogs, lions, leopards, bears etc all wearing coloured masks. This is typical of the bold ranges based around pets and animals that Paperchase create each season and this one has

The second collection today from Paperchase's A/W2016 offering is 'Kids Safari' an understated collection in sophisticated black and white combined with mint green. It features various animals on lunch items such as snack boxes, mugs, egg cups and a flask. Expect to see it in stores and online very soon.

Today's new Paperchase designs for Autumn Winter 2016 are both collections aimed at the female market. The first called "Gothic Garden" is something Paperchase typically do a variant of each season a dark and moody floral. The new design combines tinted photographic flowers and a geometric crystal style pattern. It includes stationery and items for gifting in a 'luxe' style such as bags, phone

Our second range seen in a sneak preview today is Arcatia. This is another feminine collection being released by Paperchase for Autumn/Winter 2016 and is is based around pretty sketches of a Siamese cat. Mixed with florals Arcatia's colours are soft lilacs and purples mixed with grey. A leafy floral in gold is also used as a complimentary print. Ideal for gifting it features on all manor of

This week we are enjoying sneaky peaks at the new ranges that will arrive at Paperchase this Autumn. Today we have a lovely new collection called Woodland Tails' which features hand drawn illustrations of woodland deer, foxes, bears, etc. The designs were snapped at the Paperchase Autumn Winter Press Show but will arrive in stores later this year. Woodland Tails features on everything from

And also today from Paperchase we have another of their 'Back to School' collections. This children's design mixes two things little girls love : kittens and mermaids to create 'Purr Maids' and features 1980's style pastels and airbrushing. The design features on everything a girl could need for school with a full range stationery and lunchware, and is available in stores and online now.

Print & Pattern is back from it's summer break and all this week I'll be featuring sneak previews of the ranges we can expect to see in Paperchase this Autumn Winter. Our first collection is called Yolo Owls - which stands for 'You Obviously Love Owls'. Paperchase have a new owl design each season and it is always interesting to see how they are doing it this time. Yolo owls will be in

Also from Paperchase I wanted to highlight this retro floral collection called California Dreaming. This is part of their 'Back to School' offering and is already available in stores now. It features 60's style mod florals that evoke San Francisco flower power style.