Super stationary

To you, working people with nice big companies behind you, keeping you well-stocked in sticky notes, staplers and business cards. This brilliant hand printed stationary set by  Sort (Society of Revisionist Typographers) for the Southbank Centre (in association with Cockpit Arts), may just look like a bunch of nice thank-you cards to keep for occasional use. But to a work-from-home person who is forever rummaging in the drawer for some old postcard to use as a compliment slip, this box of stationary with its notelets and single cards (single cards, high-five!) signals the beginning of a new, organised era. The images take inspiration from the 1951 Festival of Britain and there’s even a bonus note pad included in the box. More high-fives.

Stationary set by Sort

hand printed stationary by Sort

I mean to buy more packs, else this era is going to be short.



summer balcony pictures

Summer at last

Here it is, after such a long winter – yes, days when you can hitch your skirt in your knickers and wear a boob tube with impunity (only around the house mind). I’m a terrible fidget in the sun, so I’ve been flitting between the balcony and the laptop indoors, arranging things, snapping things, and […]

Sylvia Marius photograph

Feeling moody?

I often am, if you’re asking, but on this occasion I’m talking about deep colours, faded, peeling surfaces, flowers just hours from the bin. An Auntie’s drinking den kind of vibe. Reading Designer’s Block blog about an antique-buying sojourn in France I found this atmospheric picture, by textile artist Sylvia Marius. Her website sheds precious […]