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Candyspotting
You know we just love all sorts of paper products – so you also can guess how happy we were when we stumbled upon a fab paper designer from our very own hood. Not just a paper designer, but a paper cutter. Sounds dangerous? It’s not. It’s cutting-edge cool!
Candyspotting is the business of Sarah Holbrook (currently operating out of a home workshop in our very own Portland), who grew up on a small island near Vancouver surrounded by dreamers and artists. After earning her BSc in computer science she spent six years in the Bay Area working with a variety of artists. Returning to the Pacific Northwest to start a family, she launched Candyspotting in 2009 which combines her love of technology and art, beautifully connected in all pieces she creates.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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Tagged candyspotting, cards, paper cutting, pdx, pdx artist, Portland art, portland artist, stationery
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Pistachio Press
We totally fell in love with this letterpress line earlier this year on one of our usual missions to find all things new and superb. Pistachio Press is all that and more! We particularly dig their classic car series – which of course could be from the nostalgia this series conjures. Remember family camping trips from days gone by? When we rode in the way back of the station wagon? With NO seat belts? Good times!
Pistachio Press is run by Rachael Hetzel who started the endeavor in 2007. She actually entered the letterpress biz in 2003 and has accumulated three presses and tons of type in just a fast few years. This native of upstate New York currently resides in Rochester with her husband and two dogs, Cassie (a yellow lab), and Pancake Sue (a miniature black lab mix). In addition to running Pistachio Press, Rachael teaches fine art at the University of Rochester.
Check out Pistachio’s cards and send some today!
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
The Great Lakes Goods trunk show
Words to the wise: You won’t want to miss The Great Lakes Goods trunk show right here at Tilde on Saturday, October 29th, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, so mark your calendars for this special event!
Rose Lazar, the creator/designer behind The Great Lakes Goods stationery line, is traveling to Portland, OR from her home in Brooklyn, NY specifically for a few select west coast shows. We here at Tilde are thrilled that she’s chosen us as her Portland stop!
Rose founded The Great Lakes Goods line in 2007 as a way to continue doing what she loves: printmaking. Apparently, the magic all begins with an inspired phrase, and then things really get popping! Influenced by Fleetwood Mac, Charley Harper, Rob Ryan, Louise Bourgeois, 50 cent, The Shakers, campfires, Simon and Garfunkel, Tina Fey, massive amounts of candy, nature and nurture (equally), Ms. Josephine, sweet romance, and good ole fashioned nostalgia.
Rose takes these influences to create work that feels new and at the same time old and familiar. Everything is hand drawn and hand printed or constructed. And, each piece is created with the hopes that you feel like it was made just for you.
You’ll feel it at our end of month trunk show with posters, a special limited edition calendar, holiday ornaments, holiday boxed cards, and a few additional new creations. Join us!
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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Tagged 2012 calendar, feathers, holiday, stationery, the great lakes goods, trunk show
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Crafterall
Marnie Karger is the creative force behind Crafterall, a shop featuring meticulously cut and layered paper art. Her work, specializing in topographic and bathymetric map recreation, has been featured on numerous craft, style, and design blogs, sold worldwide, and is still made by hand in the basement studio of her home in Minnesota. Marnie shares this home/studio in Shorewood with her husband, two clever daughters, and a retired racing greyhound.
Marnie believes that topography tells the history of an area, and that she’s able to play the storyteller when recreating such places via layered papercuts. She finds cutting paper “a quiet and indelible act, akin to carving, at times meditative and inspiring.” As Marnie adds each layer of paper, the piece evolves uniquely, taking “shape like a time-lapse view of erosion.”
For the artist, this amazingly intricate craft was “a happy accident and grew from my love of viewing natural science as art. I did not expect to be doing this, and I cannot think of what I’d rather be doing.”
We’re quite happy that Marnie is cutting and layering and creating magnificent works to share with all of us, too.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
Sesame Letterpress
Receiving an actual handwritten letter in the mail is such a rare occurrence these days, that the postal service may just go bankrupt! To help stop this potential threat, as well as to delight your family and friends, try sending a card. Seriously. Do it.
We’ve got just the cards for you, too. (You knew it was coming, right?) Sesame Letterpress creates cards featuring gorgeous, colorful images of animals we all adore. Run by Breck Hostetter and Matt Heindl, this letterpress studio is located in what has become our sister city – yep, that’s Brooklyn, New York. All of Sesame’s work is created in their studio using the traditional piece of machinery focused on the craft: the letterpress.
Each Sesame card is hand-fed, one color at a time, one piece at a time, into their vintage presses. How cool is that? Very. We also love that their ‘card footprint’ is smaller in their choice of paper made from 100% recovered cotton fibers requiring fewer chemicals and producing far less waste than papers made from trees. Again, very cool indeed!
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
Nydam Press
The hand pulled linoleum block print – you just don’t see this type of work much any more. And to see it well done, well, we take our hats off to that! We’ve got some wonderful cards in store that you’re sure to love.
Kate Nydam is a print maker who draws her designs, carves them out of linoleum blocks, hand prints them onto beautiful watercolor paper, and calls that a greeting card. We call it a small work of art! After taking a bit of time off to welcome a baby into the world (cheers, Kate!), she has returned to the studio and restocked us with her wonderful cards.
Born and raised on Cape Cod, Kate received her BA in Fine Arts in 2004. She’s equipped with an incredible design sensibility, a mind that rules the Scrabble board, and a sense of humor. Art and design are her passions (and her family, too, of course!), and the care she takes with each project shows in the final product. Inspired by nature, her designs showcase floral and leaf patterns, insects, and animals.
We love her work and know that you and your friends will, too!
The Postage Service: vintage stamps
The Postage Service is the passionate pursuit of Christine Schaefer. An active world traveller with a strong background in art history, architecture, and interior design, it was postage stamps that finally encapsulated all of Christine’s interests within their diminutive dimensions.
Christine has culled her area and combined an ideal collection of vintage postage stamps with designs and artwork that deserves to be appreciated anew. And, Tilde is proud to be carrying her work!
The cards we carry in store feature a curated selection of favorite vintage postage stamps that still work to mail a letter! She has organized the stamps into categories of architecture, flowers, wildlife, design, and more. These stamps are the final flourish when sending a card to someone who cares about the details.
Check out The Postage Service cards with springtime flair at Tilde.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
Leah Duncan colorful cards
Tilde is pleased to bring Leah Duncan‘s line of cards into shop this first month of the new year. TONS of cards. Leah – a native of South Carolina who now resides in Austin, Texas – boasts an interesting self-made arts background in illustration, design, and textiles, with a degree in commercial printing. Her whimsical, creative, vibrant work has propelled her to the national art scene that has been eating up her innovative textile designs.
To introduce Portland to Leah’s original artwork, Tilde showcased ten of Leah’s designs in our December show last year. Her beautiful, colorful cards feature reproductions of her pencil and mixed media originals. Though we have previously carried some of her cards in store, we are now investing in a larger body of her work – for her keen artistic sensibility, creative approach to elements of modern design, and, well, just cuz we like it all. All!
Look for more cool products and designs from Leah that will surely tickle your fancy in store come February (think: pillows!).
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: (503) 234-9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
Curious Doodles ‘Hurray for Hands’ 2011 Calendar
This is one cool calendar – so Portland, so Tilde. And it’s our first calendar in stock for 2011. Time to get organized for next year!
Curious Doodles is a Portland-based design machine, the brain child of Laura Trimmel, cranking out all sorts of amazing DIY, handmade, screen printed items like tees and panels and coin purses.
The “Hooray Hands” calendar for 2011 offers a visual celebration of using (your!) hands creatively – each of the calendar’s hand printed illustrations show a person making/doing with their hands. (The designer is happiest when she’s using my hands which is why she felt compelled to make this calendar. We are happy she went for it!)
The screen printed calendar plates are printed both front and back, and rest in a handy, durable jewel case. Perfect stocking stuffers!
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: (503) 234-9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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Tagged 2011 Calendars, Curious Doodles, Hurray for Hands, locally made, portland designer, stationery
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Wild Pulp
One of the standouts from the National Stationery Show was the paper line Wild Pulp from Cleveland, OH. Once back from our NY stationery spree, we immediately placed an order for these creative cards and are happy to report that they are now available at Tilde.
Wild Pulp is the newly conceived brainchild of Christopher Smith who is an alum of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Columbus College of Art and Design. Though it was hard to choose, our favorite Wild Pulp line (at this moment) is the North American Mammals in bark.
Christopher has designed real animals, for Wild Pulp, there are no cutsy humanized creatures in this bunch. The different types of bark that Christopher has chosen truly fits each animal’s spirit.
Ok, this little meadow mouse is pretty cute!
Christopher has also designed a separate collection (called Bright Souls) of vulnerable, threatened, endangered and recovered North American Animals. These stately animals are represented quite colorfully on the front of the card with the back of each card showing the animals habitat along with a bit of info on their lives.
These are such high quality, beautiful and thoughtful cards, we hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: (503) 234-9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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