Spotting: Endemic World Prints

Blown away - just blown away by the feedback for the Rachel Castle giveaway - good luck everyone and many thanks for the amazing suggestions you are all making!

  Kind of lost for words and super excited about what is ahead for me and the blog.  

Today's post is about something that has come up quite regularly - local resonablity priced art.  Well first stop is the lovely peeps, Elliot and Kate, over at Endemic World.  

They ARE "art prints and graphic curated in New Zealand".  

Garden Party Print by Inaluxe - available here

Ampersand Print by Mash available here 

Pink Clouds by Oslo available here

Cosmopolitan Print by Terry Chisholm for Design Assembly available here

AND they do a great little ditty on their blog called Print Pairs.  Mixing art and spaces is just the ticket to start that interior inspiration.  Clap clap clap.

Find them over here and here

Meeting: Mark Catley from Mark Catley Design

Oh it was lovely to visit my old city of Christchurch.  

I had lined up quite a few meet and greets but unfortunatly, because of the snow, I missed out on a few so I thought I would do a imaginary summary of what might have been anyway.

Today I talk of Mark from Mark Catley Design.

I was introduced to Mark Catley through Alice Anderson (she's funny) of the cute blog Our Tiny Landscapes.  I had meet Alice at the Bloggers Conference earlier this year and she mentioned that Mark would be a designer that I would like.  She was not wrong.

He's colour, he's geometric, he's design and I like his stuff.

Mark has a refreshing design style that is unique (which is hard in an overexposed visual market) and raw.  He is one talented mo.  Oh and he can do black and white too.

A recent graduate from The Design and Arts College (Christchurch) in Graphic Design he decided that working for the man was not really a viable option and I would agree as he seems to be doing just fine out there solo.

I have a special thang for his cushions and prints.

He was recently a featured seller on Felt and they did a great exposé on him.  Of course you can also buy his products over there too.  Double bonus.

HAPA in the Cashel Mall also stocks some of his wares.

Please go find and support him as he will help to brighten your life and that right there is the truth.

*All the images were stolen from Mark Catley Design Website

Bargin o' the day: Penny Stotter "Pretty Birds like to shop"

You betcha we do, Penny Stotter.

Penny emailed me today to say that she has ONE left of these awesome prints in stock.

A thousand apols for the dark photos but I was rushing!

I have one already so now it's up to you lot to buy buy buy.

This is one of my all time fav prints of Penny's.  Shopping, fluro, birds, ovals, pinkness - it has all!

I have taken some snaps of my print as the link does not do it justice.

Just $450 plus P & P people.

Giveaway: Foundry (Prints and Totes)

Oh yes design buddies, it's giveaway time!

AND I couldn't be more happier to announce that next week (Thursday 23rd Feb 2012) I will draw out of the hat, a lucky person to WIN a product of your choice from the one, the only, the best...

Foundry.

That's correcto-mondo.  Your choice of a print or tote.  

All you have to do is go to Foundry's website and choose the goodie you want to win and post in the comments below.

Extra entries if you "like" Fancy! NZ Design Blog and Alex Fulton Design Facebook pages.  Just let me know in the comment section.

Good luck.

Easy art squeezy.

About Foundry:  

I'm a massive fan of Alana's design blog - Fancy! and now, she has branched out and shown us some of her very own home-grown new zealand goodness.

Her design aesthetic features colours, pattern, and type which really hits the mark in cool.

I am very happy to be supporting her work and ever grateful that we can giveaway some 'Foundry' right here on this blog.

New kid on the block: Foundry

Foundry is the new adventure for Fancy! blogess Alana.

She emanates cool and it shows with the first range.

She's keeping it special with numbered prints and limited editions.

Totes also have been the cool-treatment

"put all of your items in this, then go somewhere"

Look out peeps - she's one to watch!