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2/1/12

24 hours in NYC

The trip to NYC was fast and intensive. But 24 hours in the city and a day spent at the NYIGF it felt as an intere week past by. I'm back to my studio rushing to ship last minute valentine orders and new products. The show is still on until tomorrow and I miss being at our new booth and meeting tuns of people every day. The show was an incredible inspirations to me.... and what a pleasure meeting Yumiko Sekine and Shanna Murray in person, among many other amazing designers! Thank you everybody that took the time to visit us!

1/27/12

Wholesale catalogue 2012

Wholesale Catalogue 2012 ready and updated with new colors ribbon and new products. See you soon at booth #4120 if you are coming to NYC!

1/26/12

Product preview

Something I'm excited about the NYIGF is to launch wholesale the Vintage Glassine Sets this weekend. The idea came with the first glassine I saved over the summer and I slowly developed a simple packaging for a set of 30 assorted envelopes. They are all different, some with old calligraphy, catalogue numbers and some just plane. They are in several sizes and shapes and they varies in shades of cream/white color. As the vintage stamps, they are also from all over the world. I believe, this variation in each set is what makes them unique. and Susy's calligraphy on the labels..... let me know what you think. Also new at the show, Chocolate and Sage cotton ribbons, in 6mm width. Now the collection of large spools of 400 meters, presents 10 colors. I'm pretty excited about this too.

1/25/12

Ny International Gift Fair

Starting this Sunday the 29th until February 2nd, our booth # 4210 will be at the NYIGF, Studio Division. It is us again, Albertine Press, Carta, Inc. and May Day Studio, but in a brand new booth. Designed and created by Shelley with a new industrial style to enjoy. It was fun to photograph a preview of our booth at Shelley's studio and have the feeling of its look once it will be constructed. All three of us will launch new products for 2012, but mostly, I'm excited of showing everything under a new prospective that will propose individually our work with a different light. Come to visit us and see. Thanks Shelley for all the hard work!

1/24/12

Announcing...

I wrote down, with Nada`help, all the names from the comments on the blog and likes and comments on FB. There were quite a lot of names! I drawn from two separate set of names and the winners are Viva B. and Peg Nocciolino. Please email me your address and I will send a copy of the Calendarbook asap. Thank you so much for following what I do and supporting my work. It truly makes a difference to know you are there!

1/23/12

The event

Last Saturday snowed all day during the time of the event and I was so happily surprise when some friends, clients and other designers actually brave the cold and walked in the studio for the giveaway. I hope they found a warm welcome with Italian chocolate, espresso and lots of cheers. The online giveaway is still on until this evening and you can see a bit more of the Calendarbooks in the photos below. If you remember the post of the wood spools dye by hand in the fall, you can guess that the same idea of rolling ribbon, brought me the inspiration to use a strip of paper for our project. Silvana brilliantly designed the Calendarbook as a piece to measure time as well as space, based on 1 meter length of paper. Six months on one side and six on the other, each centimeter listed with date and day of the week. The paper tape is rolled around the spool and secured with metal eyelets and linen thread. To complete the object, I look for some Kraft paper boxes and brought 150 of them in a suitcase to Rome. If custom would ever stop me at the airport, would certainly wonder what do I ever do with these kind of materials back and forth from one country to another. But it is part of the fun of our collaboration. A big thank you to everybody that came on Saturday. Facebook and blog winner will be announced tomorrow, so please continue to let me know what you think of this project!

1/17/12

Measuring tape or calendar?

Metro di carta o calendario?
All photos by Nada` Alaeddin, my 11 old daughter that is quickly learning how to use the camera with an interesting prospective. So lucky to have her help at the studio! Thank you for all the comments so far, the blog giveaway is still on for another week. On facebook too, where all page likes and comments count.

1/16/12

Calendarbook giveaway party

I'm working on the final assembling of the Calendarbooks by Edizioni Almenodue. Schools are closed today, so Nada` is kindly helping me to punch holes and putting eyelets on the strips of paper. As every year, Silvana and I design the self-promotional piece in the fall, it gets offset printed the last week of December in Rome and copies of the Calendarbooks comes back to the US in my suitcase. Sorry if the calendar is always a present closer to valentine's day, rather than the end of the year, but the best wishes for 2012 have the same good intentions. The design, this year, is particularly close to me, growing up with my mother being a seamstress and remembering the measuring tape always on her shoulder. I will slowly reveal the calendar in the next days, but I like to keep it as a surprise for the ones that will have the time to stop by the studio next Saturday from 1 to 5 and pick up their copy. Instead of only sending the calendars via mail and a giveaway online, this year, I thought to have a small get together at the studio, to bare the cold and to meet some of you in person. If you have time and you live in the Boston area, please come by and say hello! Otherwise, leave a comment on the blog, facebook or both, by Monday the 23rd and I will announce a winner the following day. Thank you everyone for your precious support, I wish you could all come to visit! everyone is invited, bring a friend!

1/12/12

Roma, part 3

I took lots of Polaroids during the trip, but I don't want to overwhelm you with more photos of Rome. I hope these few images captured a sense of eternal city. Briefly, I would like to point out a few places that strike me the most. Appia Antica, one afternoon almost at sunset, the interior of Ristorante Gusto and my old apartment building, where I grow up, where from the three third floor windows, I could see the cupola of San Pietro. Every time I go back there, I almost cry.
I'm planning next week a Calendarbook giveaway here on the blog, on facebook and personally at my studio. Check back soon, the Calendarbook, this year, is a real surprise!

1/11/12

Roma, part 2

More polaroids. This app is great and I used it all along the trip, forgetting about my camera. Rome almost had a different prospective thought this light.

1/10/12

Roma, part 1

I'm awake since 5 a.m. with strong jet leg and still the sound of the plane in my ear. Two weeks on the other side of the ocean feel as a long time and I know it will take me a few days to recover and feel at home again. The air is so clean and the light so different in this part of the world, the landscape is stunning. Missing Rome, my family and tons of people/friends we met during this trip. Back to my studio and to work, I hope you all had a nice beginning of the year. Here is a first glimpse of the trip and slowly, I'm sure, I will have much more to share.

12/23/11

Buone feste!

I'm clearing up my desks and packing some presents, before locking the studio in a few hours. We are leaving to spend time with our family in Rome and I really look forward to take a little break and come back refreshed and ready for the new year. I will work in Rome with Silvana on our annual Calendarbook and I'm very excited about our new project this year. After many, many collaborations, I still enjoy every moment we can spend together designing in our parents home. Same building, same room. It is so familiar and it brings me back in time with deep memories. As usual, copies of the printed Calendarbooks will arrive to the US in my suitcase! You will see, it is going to be great! stay tune for a giveaway in my studio, as well as online, as soon as we come back. The studio and shop will be closed from today, December 23rd, until January 11th. My best wishes for a wonderful holidays and happy new year! thank you so much for your continued support and much inspiration this past year. See you back in 2012!

Stivali rossi in Piazza Chigi, Roma, Gennaio 2011.

12/21/11

Cotton Ribbon applications, part 4

Through the year I collect images of different projects where I see the use of our line of cotton ribbons and twine. This time I also wanted to add the vintage stamps to the collection and show you different ways to use these products, ether to decorate, bookbinding, wrapping and styling from several designers. I posted before many projects during the years and up until now I'm thrilled every time I see something new. It is what motivates me to continue to find and provide new materials. I love to see how people will use it! All the following photos and projects are by the designers and/or stylists listed below. Thank you to everyone that contributed! But if you have something that you made and would like to post it online, you can do so by sharing the images on the studio's facebook wall. I would LOVE to see it!

Do Design Madrid