poppytalk

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

What is poppy talk? Well, according to the blogs main page, it is a "Canadian design blog collecting inspiration and promoting emerging design talent." And then taking things a step further, Poppytalk Handmade is a "monthly online street market to showcase, buy and sell handmade goods of emerging design talent from around the world."

On Poppytalk Handmade's page there is an Affordable Art Guide, an Etsy pick of the day and a collection of "most wanted" art.

You can find toys, paper goods, housewares, furniture items and all different types of artwork at Poppytalk. It's such a fantastic website and it is updated daily. It is on this website that I discovered rifferaff.

Rifferaff is committed to small scale, local, and eco-friendly production of paper goods. You will find handmade gift wrap with cute and artsy designs on silk screened paper.

You'll find something new and fabulous every day so definitely bookmark this page or subscribe to the RSS feed like I did. It's a must-read!

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    Pop art and retro paintings

    Monday, September 17, 2007

    While reading Indie Fixx, I stumbled across ArtGhost. ARTGHOST is two artists and independent designers, Eric Adler and Liz Wong, working in Seattle, Washington. They hand make everything in their shop which means you get one-of-a-kind items, because the hand never makes exact duplicates.

    You can also buy greeting cards they designed and most of them are quite hilarious. They have the old school black & white sketches of retro people, but the captions are far more modern which makes for a humorous time.

    What sold me right away were the handmade purses. They have this girl with headphones on and a back splash of pink with black polka dots. It's awesome! You would never find something like this in a store, at least not around Delaware. Bloom (on Main Street in Newark, DE), you need to get in touch with these guys and start buying their inventory, I know your UD student customers would totally scoop them up.

    Also, if you want to know more about what Eric and Liz are up to, you can hop on over to their blog.

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