> new Lost Garden WallScene™

We have added two new colours to our "Lost Garden" WallScene™ wallpapers.

Summer Blue, captures the evocative colours of early summer and Harvest Brown features rich jewel colours against a smokey grey/brown autumnal background. The design is our contemporary take on Chinoiserie and was inspired by walks through Blenheim Park.

WallScene™ is a new a concept for wallcoverings. Each roll contains four interchangeable drops to create your own feature wall. Additional rolls will extend the design across an entire wall... or room!

To find out more about how WallScene™ works [click here].

> One-Piece-Chair at 100% Design London

Here's a quick snap of our "Tree of Life" design on Ben Hughes' "One-Piece-Chair" as seen on the Blueprint stand at 100% Design last week.  Another image can be seen on 'Despoke' 100% Design London's new blog and on Flickr.  Visitors to the show were able to design their own graphics and see their work made into mini paper models.  At the end of the show, judges including Ben and Matthew Hilton will select the best design and the lucky winner will receive a full size chair.

The show was great (as expected) and we met some really lovely exhibitors (whom we shall talk about in more detail later this week).

Off to Decorex now!!!

> 100% Design London

We are off to 100% Design today and can't wait to see what's new in the wonderful world of design.

We're looking forward to seeing our designs printed onto the new "One-Piece-Chair" by Ben Hughes, on show for the first time (in conjunction with Blueprint magazine and Claystation).  The chair will be featured in the October issue of Blueprint.

We'll let you know what we thought of the show and tell you about the best bits!

> new retailer "Urbane Living"

"Urbane Living" are the next confirmed retailer selling our range of Deluxe Wallpapers. This iconic, environmentally-led and design conscious company sell fabulous sustainable products for the home - and we are absolutely delighted to be working with them.

> Grand Designs Live

We're looking forward to the forthcoming Grand Designs Live at the NEC (9-11 October).  We are hoping to find some exciting soft furnishings to complete a big project we are finishing with Colliss & Quinton.

While we were looking through the latest GDL brochure recently, we were excited to see it included an image of our stand, featuring our "Tree of Life" wallcovering taken at the London ExCeL show in June 2007 - it brought back some great memories!

> Ideal Home magazine - Fronlas boutique B&B

for those of you who don't know...

we also run "Colliss & Quinton" designing interiors and bespoke wallcoverings for 'grown-ups' (residential and commercial properties).  We were very excited to be called by "Ideal Home" magazine who are doing a feature on one of our previous interior projects, "Fronlas" (boutique hotel style B&B in Wales), which we designed achieving a 5 star rating.  We designed all the rooms and bathrooms, mural wallcoverings, bespoke pieces of furniture and even the logo and stationery.
"Ideal Home" January 2010.

The hotel was also recently featured filmed for S4/C (04Wal: Hotels of the World) series highlighting the world's finest iconic design hotels, with presenter, Aled Samuel proclaiming our wallcoverings were the hotel's "icing on the cake".

> One-Piece Chair for 100% Design London - update

Following on from our previous mention about the "One-Piece-Chair", Blueprint magazine (in conjunction with Claystation) contacted us to say that one, if not both of our designs are being manufactured and will be on show at 100% Design London (24-27 September).  Needless to say we are absolutely delighted and can't wait to see the chair(s) in the flesh.

Thank you Claudia for giving us the great news.

> mural for City Hospital, Birmingham

Another hospital takes one of our murals...

We were contacted yesterday to produce our "Dancing Dolphins" mural for the children's Urgent Care Centre at Birmingham's City Hospital.  In record time (basically working through the night), we prepared the design ready for installation on Friday.  The wall is so large that we had to add whole new sections to the design.

Thanks also to Rob, Wayne, Steve and co (our ever patient and fabulous printers), without whom we would not have been able to achieve the deadline.

> ant invaders...! new "Soldier Ants" wall stickers

The Ant Army invasion starts today...!

"Soldier Ants" is the latest addition to our Wall Stickers range. The ants, printed in black, red and camouflage feature radiation symbols, skull and crossbones and military stars and co-ordinates with our Soldier Ants deluxe Wallpaper. Definitely one for the boys!!!

Available to order from our webshop.

> new retailer - "Rockett St George"

We are absolutely delighted that the very hip and wonderful "Rockett St George" are our first confirmed retailer taking our Wallpapers and Wall Stickers. As one of the most inspirational, design-led websites around, and loved by Living etc., we couldn't be happier.

Thanks Lucy and Jane - we look forward to working with you.

> blog launch

Welcome to our blog, created to share the latest information on what we are up to and showcase the best in new, modern design... exclusively for children.

We will talk about our products, new design launches, our retailers, what inspires, makes us laugh, the latest innovations and all the news and happenings in the wonderful world of designing for children.

> extension to our "End of Summer Sale"

The summer may almost be at an end, but due to popular demand, we are extending our "End of Summer" sale... grab 10% off our products and services (and 20% off our Wall Stickers) until Monday 14 September.  Enjoy!

To see our range of products [click here].

> One-Piece-Chair for 100% Design London

We have been invited by Blueprint magazine (the leading magazine of architecture and design) to submit one of our designs to be printed onto the new "One-Piece-Chair", designed by Ben Hughes, on show for the first time at 100% Design London.  Constructed from an innovative Swedish material called Re-board, the chair is manufactured in one go, including printing and cutting, and delivered flat-pack ready to be assembled.  20 full size chairs will be manufactured for the show featuring designs by architects, designers and illustrators.

Concepts shown here:

 

> as seen on BBC2

Our work has again been featured on television. For BBC 2's interior show, "Home for Life", (fronted by Jamie Anley and Phil Nutley of JAM (also creative directors for this year's 100% Design London) we were commissioned by the Burr family to create a fabulous bedroom for their children and to design the wallcoverings in the "Jazz" themed lounge (with our sister company Colliss and Quinton).

The children's bedroom featured vibrant and colourful wallcoverings for their walls and wardrobes and a bespoke 'cube' bed, gilded in silver leaf wrapped with our wallpaper and studded with Swarovski crystals.

The walls in the "Jazz" themed lounge were wrapped in our bespoke wallcoverings and featured custom furniture by British design duo Jimmie Martin.

> British is best!

We are passionate about our designs and all our products are designed, printed and finished to the very highest quality. Everything is "designed and made with pride in the UK" and to re-inforce this, we have created a new logo (featuring the Union Flag behind the boy's head) which appears on all our product pages.