Modern Wall Art by Kamal

Modern Wall Art by Kamal

I’ve had home decorating on my mind a lot lately and have been seriously ogling these gorgeous, modern art prints by Kamal. The organic shapes featured in the lovely letterpress prints have such a vibrant energy and would bring a bit of modernity and movement to any room, and I’m loving the touches of gold and the versatile, kraft chipboard backdrops. Check out all of the available prints in Kamal’s shop.

Modern Letterpress Wall Art

Modern Letterpress Wall Art

Modern Kraft Chipboard Wall Art

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Quick Picks Thursday : 1.24.13

Winter Owl Letterpress Postcard

Winter Owl Letterpress Postcard by Ink Pop Studio

This Week’s Picks

♥ In awe of the geometric paper art pieces from Benja Harney’s recent show, New Platonic.

30,000 swarming moths … thank goodness they’re made of paper because, otherwise, I might have the heebies right now.

♥ Loving these hand-lettered New Year prints, a collaboration between Urbanic and Scout’s Honor. And they’re a complimentary gift with your order from Urbanic, too!

♥ I’m enamored with these gorgeous gold foil cards from Kamal. – spotted at DWL

♥ Have you signed up for The Stationery Place’s Handmade Valentine Swap + Giveaway?

♥ Adorable mason jar recipe cards from 1Canoe2.

image from Ink Pop Studio

National Stationery Show 2010 : All About Details, Part 3

If you haven’t checked out the first two parts in the All About Details series, then you can find them here and here.

Kamal has such a unique line — I’m really digging the new chipboard invitations and cards, and I loved that she painted her booth a dark color to showcase her goods. Creating a garland using coasters from her collection was a brilliant idea, too.

Kamal

Erin and I met up with the lovely Carina of Crow & Canary at the Wild Pulp booth — by the way, you should check out Carina’s great coverage of the NSS if you aren’t already. Wild Pulp made their debut at the show this year, and I thought that the booth, which Christopher transported to the show in his pickup truck (!), fit so perfectly with the tone of the Wild Pulp collection. Can you believe that Christopher actually creates the bird nests for his cards by hand? Wow!

Wild Pulp

Jason & Ilira at Rag & Bone Bindery had a great display, which included an outfit with a paper skirt (textile top) that Ilira made the night before the show. That takes paper talent! I was also digging their oh so pretty guest books and liked that they had a project from Jason’s new book on display to hold their business cards.

Rag & Bone Bindery

Unfortunately, because I was so busy poring over Jason’s book, I managed to forget to take pictures of the rest of the booth. Hey, this was my first show, so I can be forgiven, right? Plus, it’s a really cool book! Thankfully, Jason was kind enough to send me some his photos so I can share them with you. Thanks, Jason!

Rag & Bone Bindery
Photo Credit: Jason Thompson

Walking into the Timeless Paper booth was like entering a magical paper world. I loved that Emily and her crew had all of the paper pretties on display just as they would be used at a wedding reception or party. So pretty.

Timeless Paper

The Paper Loop booth was so much fun! Their colorful, wonderfully illustrated cards brought lots of smiles, and I totally wanted to take the cute little bear that was on one wall of their booth with me. Somehow, I doubt that Sara and Rob would’ve been very happy about that.

Paper Loop

Such a pretty, woodland display of the Martha Stewart line at the Crane booth. Would you expect anything less from Martha?

Martha Stewart Crane

photos, with the exception of the ones taken by Jason Thompson, by yours truly

Kamal Letterpress Coasters and Cards

I was first introduced to the work of Kamal when I spotted Design*Sponge’s “Best in Show” post during the National Stationery Show. Since then, Kamal has launched an entire line of beautiful letterpress coasters and cards featuring stylized nature and botanical inspired illustrations and patterns. I love their use of color and metallic accents and can’t get enough of this collection, which you can now purchase on their site. Yay!
All of Kamal’s goods are created with hand mixed ink and printed onto eco-friendly 100% cotton paper or 100% kraft chipboard with 100% post-consumer kraft envelopes.

A bit of eye candy from Kamal’s collection (see the whole line here):

Kamal Letterpress

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