About

My Story

Hello! We are a design studio and independent stationery company producing a range of stylish, clever and playful greetings cards, paper goods and prints in the Yorkshire Wolds, UK.

The brand started on a very small scale in 2005 with Alison’s love of illustrating, making and printing small editions for artists book fairs and markets. With a degree and a masters in Illustration under her belt Alison was not going to let her dreams of being creative for a living go.

Fast forward a few years and we’re now a design studio in Alison’s garden in the Yorkshire hills. Alison gets to do this design thing for a living and loves every minute of it.
Influences and inspirations are wide and varied but mainly come from a huge passion for words, typography, graphic imagery and pattern, illustration and communication of thoughts and notions. We design simple things we would like to receive, own and use.

Central design themes include adventure and exploration, pattern in the everyday, journeys and juxtaposition of colours. Colour is one of the most important and influential parts of our designs. Alison can pore over colours and colour charts for a very long time indeed and we like to think it shows as we’re very proud of our unique and exciting colour palette of designs gathered over the years.

Alison’s vision: to design striking products with true meaning and genuine creative integrity to be used for everyday adventures, monumental occasions and for the love of good design.

Our process

We take great pride in our hands-on process and all designs are created by Alison and start with pen, paper, ink, brush and scalpel. The resulting unique style complete with it’s beautiful irregularities combines hand rendered illustrations and type with a clean bold colour palette and a touch of humour. We like to make people smile and think and we love our designs to show that they’ve been created by hand.

Our products

We pride ourselves on keeping production UK based using high quality printers and then all products are lovingly finished, packed and despatched from our studio. Prints are all hand silk screen printed by Alison in our print studio.

All card, envelopes and paper stock are FSC accredited and we use vegetable based inks.