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Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
Orla Kiely is a fashion designer whose now instantly recognisable prints have appeared on handbags, accessories and homewares throughout her 20 year career span.
Kiely takes inspiration from the geometry she sees in nature and her unique designs are where colour, pattern, graphic control, texture and rhythm continually work and rework together.
We have stocked a number of her mugs in our shop for sometime but it’s her new range of stationery which has really caught our eye this autumn. Her repetitive patterns translate very well onto the notebooks, address book and her storage boxes. What a gorgeous way to store your CDs and DVDs.
Tags: A4 box, cd boxes, dvd boxes, multi stem, orla kiely, Stationery, storage box
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010
I suppose it’s my age but I do love a bit of nostalgia especially around my childhood so I loved the new Morph products that have just arrived. Morph is an animated plasticine character that first appeared on our tv screens in 1977, in Take Hart. Morph lived in an artist’s wooden pencil box and was later joined by his friend Chas who was the naughtier character of the two. Morph just spoke goobledygook but his gestures conveyed all that we needed to understand.
I love all the Morph products but I think my favourite has to be the Morph Bookends as it combines my love of nostalgia and books! My colleague has already treated herself to a Morph Desk Buddy which now sits with pride of place next to her computer and faithfully holds her pen!
Tags: book ends, bookends, chas, coaster, coasters, desk buddy, door stop, doorstop, morph, morph bookends, morph coaster, morph desk buddy, morph door stop, office, Take Hart
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
We all love to reminise about our childhood and how the sun always shone, the holidays were endless & Tucker was the coolest guy at Grange Hill. One of the topics, often with friends, about our childhood is sweets! We can spend many a moment reminising about sherbet dib dabs, black jacks, refreshers and drumstick lollies. I think my favourite were refresher chews which had a shot of sherbet in the middle but I also loved nothing more than going to the shop and getting a ‘quarter’ of something. There before your eyes was heaven on a shelf, with just row upon row of loose sweets waiting for you to choose them.
Throughout the past couple of years one of our best selling items, especially at Christmas has been our retro sweets hampers, which we offer in either a Superman or Wonder Woman tin. People love to give a gift which will evoke memories of their childhood and both the sweets and the tin fulfill this. We are introducing another retro hamper this Christmas with the very iconic Union Jack tin.
Tags: black jack, drumstick lollies, gift, Gifts, gifts for her, gifts for him, refreshers, retro gifts, sherbet dib dab, superman, superman sweets hamper, superman tin, sweets hamper, union jack, wonder woman, wonder woman sweets hamper. sweets, wonder woman tin
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
Here at the gifted penguin we love a young and exciting company called More Than Words which produce the most amazing bespoke artwork using typographic images. The work they produce is of the highest fine art standard and is printed onto pure cotton canvas with a museum quality mount. We decided we would love them to produce a piece of art that would be unique to us at the gifted penguin. With the Olympics being just around the corner, the ongoing love of the Union Jack in interiors and a desire to celebrate all that Britain means to us in these challenging times we decided to commission a piece of work that reflected these thoughts. We brain stormed words that reflected all that’s British asking all sorts of people and the most popular answer we got was ‘the weather’! But many other favourites rolled in including cream teas, Big Ben, red buses, Marks & Spencers and many name places including Edinburgh, Cardiff, Stratford upon Avon and of course London. With our list of words we then asked Lisa Long at More Than Words to produce a unique piece of art for us. The canvas was produced using using UV archival pigment inks in the exact colours of the Union Jack and what we received is a stunning piece of art, All That’s British Union Jack Canvas.
This stunning piece of art can’t be bought anywhere else, so why not treat yourself to something that will bring interest and enjoyment to all who view it. Why not see if your favourite British icon is in there?!
Tags: all that's british canvas, art, british, canvas, canvas art, great britain, more than words, typographic, typographic art, uk, union jack, union jack canvas
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Monday, October 4th, 2010
Congratulations to Hayley Fountain who won last month’s competition for the Name Art piece of children’s name artwork.
This month’s competition is for a stunning wall clock designed by Karlsson which brings a really contemporary look to your room.
The large stylish clock (measures 50cm across) has a deep rounded glass dome sitting over the face of the clock.
The large contemporary style numbers consist of even numbers in grey and the odd numbers are clear allowing the colour of your wall to show through.
The face is in black and the hands contrast in white.
Enter today it’s free!
Tags: clock, competition, dome clock, glass clock, karlsson, karlsson clock, wall clock
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