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/.

Credits: Little Brown Pen and The Cherry Blossom Girl

Nicola Pearson is a very talented freelance surface pattern designer based in Manchester. After gathering 7 years experience designing prints for companies such as Sainsbury’s and Mamas and Papas, Nicola decided to take the plunge and work for herself. I love Nicolas work, it has a fresh, colourful and fun feel which I find very inspiring. Nicola is represented by Paper&Cloth.

Credits: Nicola Pearson and Mamas and Papas.

This week at book club we covered coptic stitching which has now become my new favourite book structure. Its so pleasing to see the exposed spine and the stitching, makes the book feel more raw but yet strong. Here are some examples of beautiful coptic stitching with hard covers. Have a good weekend.