Many, many postcards

That stack of postcards you see there have been addressed and stamped and are ready to go out into the world, with the purpose of hopefully bringing the recipients back to our booth at the NSS this year. 400 postcards - it took me all day, and my hand is now a quivering mess. But I like to think of them traveling from our house and around the US. Only five more weeks (!)!

Hinge Series

Here's a sneak preview of one of the new products we'll be debuting at the NSS this May. These are from the Hinge series, and hopefully there will be six different designs in total. I'm pretty excited about them - I love the wraparound design of the hinge on the backside. They were screen-printed on 100 lb. recycled cardstock paper with metallic gold ink.

We'll be posting more previews here as we get closer to the NSS, so stay posted!

NSS Prep

Here are a few images from last weekend's walk about town...

Sean and I are working on a series of new products for the NSS. We're excited to be sharing a booth with three lovely ladies: JHill Design, Ink & Wit, and RSVP Press. We are busy designing a series of journals, new cards and some new prints. Can't wait to show you the new work!

Mapping the Way, Part 3

Finally, a few more images of the prints we're exhibiting at Artstream: A Casual Theory of Time, and two of three Celestial Extinction prints.

Mapping the Way, Part 2

Two pieces for the Mapping the Way exhibit: From Here and Back Again, and our popular Abyssal print.

Mapping the Way, Part 1

This piece is called "A Catalog". It will be exhibited in Artstream's Mapping the Way exhibit. We're heading up to NH tomorrow for the opening! If you're there, say hi!

Ithaca

Last weekend we went up to Ithaca to visit an old architecture friend who is getting her MBA at Cornell. It was a gorgeous weekend weatherwise, and the fall foliage was beautiful. I feel like we don't get to experience fall properly in New York City. The trees stay green and then all of a sudden you wake up one day and all of the leaves are on the ground. Pretty much the only thing we did was eat - Ithaca Bakery, Louie's Lunch (YES! tully burger!), the Nines, Wegmans (greatest supermarket ever), Cafe Dewitt, the farmers' market, Gimme! coffee...it was a great break from the bustle of new york city. Sean and I are headed to Rochester, NH, this Friday for the opening of our group show at Artstream Gallery. We are excited to meet the lovely Susan, and for the chance to once again bust out of the city for a little natural inspiration.

Seeking Light

Oh man...Thank goodness it's friday! It's been a long week. Sean and I sent off our work for the Mapping the Way exhibition at Artstream. We've got 14 pieces in the show...We'll post them here over the next week. The pen and ink drawings above are six different drawings from the Seeking Light series. Each drawing is 9" x 9" and is being sold for $150 each. We'll be selling digital prints of the original pen and ink drawings through Artstream for $25, as well.

The thing I am most excited about for this weekend - Betty's back for two weeks! It's been almost three years since we saw her last and we've missed her tons! Whoo!

new work

We've got some new work out - limited edition cards and prints over at the Shiny Squirrel. The Kingdom Spirits Series (above) draw from ancient mythologies of supernatural animal-beings that roam the land, sea, and air. I really like how they turned out (we used metallic gold ink for the first time). The cards below are from our Bloom Series. Thanks to Design*Sponge, Paper Shop Ink, and Design This Design That for posting about our new work.



Now we're hard at work on some new pieces for our upcoming show at the Artstream gallery in Rochester, NH. We're taking part in a group exhibition that opens November 2 and runs until January 1, 2008. The theme is mapping, something we can always get excited about.

Renegade Craft Fair, part deux

So, Renegade was a worthwhile experience. Other than the extreme heat which does no good to someone with my complexion (ie. reflectively white), it was really great to display our work publicly. Since our regular interaction with customers occurs online, it was very informative to see what people were most interested in (the abyssal prints, the lure catalog prints, the Bubble necklace and the Double-Faced necklace from my Brevity collection), and what needed further explanation (the Celestial Extinction prints - up in our store soon!). It was also a great venue to meet people - thanks to everyone who visited our booth and supported Sub-Studio!

There was a lot of okay stuff at RCF, but not a lot stood out. My favorite vendors were Something's Hiding in Here, Erica Weiner, and Lorena Barrezueta, Sesame Letterpress, and Foxy & Winston. Lovely work all!

Renegade Craft Fair

Just a quick post to show you are booth at Renegade. We will post more about the experiences later...

Renegade preparations

We had dinner with the lovely ladies of Marzipan Garden (those are some of their aprons above). We're sharing a booth with them at Renegade Craft Fair and we wanted to get together to talk about our ideas for the booth. Sean and I went to Ikea this weekend and bought a bunch of cork boards that we are going to make into a screen/display wall. I'm excited and I can't wait to see Eva and Nina's hippo pillows!