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Alice was born in 1982 and grew up in the seaside town of Saltburn in the north east of England. Alice now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland where she works with a range of clients including British Library, Tate, and Centre for Fine Print Research at University West of England Bristol. Alice’s work is inspired by her love of paper and the the process of screen printing images by hand. This still remains an integral part of her work which is an element that I also feel very passionate about. Animals, birds, pattern and text occur frequently in her work along with the interactive aspect thus making her work perfect for children’s books. Having just completed by book binding course I am deeply inspired by the books that Alice has made and find each one beautiful and unique for both children and adults. You can see more of Alice’s work here.

I just had to post this, I just saw it on flickr and it made me really happy, so I wanted to share the joy. You can see more of Gemma’s adventures with Mr Pickles on her website and her flickr

Yesterday I was so excited and surprised to see two cards I had designed for Tigerprinters on the M&S website. I have to admit that I did order them both and get them personalised with my name on, but in my defence they are the first greetings card designs that I have had published, so I was a little excited.

You can buy them both here and here and they are delivered next day. Amazing!

Vanessa Jackman is an Australian lawyer turned photographer living in London, she takes the most amazing natural photographs that I have seen since Queen Garance! Plus most of them are taken in Australia and I am loving the Australian streetstyle at the moment. Vanessa has been published in British Vogue, W Magazine, French Glamour and Harpers Bazaar.

Smock is based in Syracuse, New York, where their print shop has 20 antique presses, 50 tons of equipment, and 17 employees. Smockpaper describe themselves as, “faithful lovers of historic craft. We have letterpress ink in our veins. We are idealists. This means we believe in things. We are trying to make the world better right now. This affects everything we do. We read Walt Whitman (he was a letterpress printer too, by the way). We fall head over heels for heavy cast iron presses. We believe in the creation of beautiful things. And we want, like you, to feel good about where our beautiful things come from”

You can see the beautiful letter-pressed stationary, invitations and gift wrap on http://smockpaper.com/.