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Focus on… Stationery
Super stationery
Inspired by Sarah Laker’s visit to the Insights-X expo, we round up some of our favourite stationery products…
Alljoy Design
Welcome to Alljoy Design’s new stationery range. These products, with six different items in four different ranges, have themes such as Bee, Cactus, Jungle and Dreamy. Products are 100% recyclable, printed on FSC certified paper and use plastic-free packaging. Alljoy also offers retailers a display option with each range. +353 (0)1 630 1213 info@alljoydesign.com
Raspberry Blossom
Raspberry Blossom has recently launched its new stationery collection, Happiness.
This collection is jam-packed with 15 fabulous products ranging from colourful, luxurious notebooks and ‘to do’ list pads with rainbow stripes, to vibrant daily and weekly planners and even tearable food shopping lists, perfect for families who love to be organised (and those who strive to be).
The Happiness collection is all about bringing joy and life to the stationery Raspberry Blossom has created. Colour is embedded within each design as the company believes it can lift moods and make us more focused, engaged and feel ready to take on the world! The colour blocking nature of the designs are trend-led and consist of beautiful, curated colour palettes while remaining functional for each shopper.
Each item was lovingly designed and made in the UK. The punchy patterned planners and notebooks were printed by a family-run book-making business, and as a family-run business Raspberry Blossom loved supporting this fabulous UK-based manufacturer.
01926 257 757 wholesale@raspberryblossom.com
Fox & Butler/ Pigment Productions
Luxury greeting cards purveyor Fox & Butler has unveiled a collection of notebooks, journals and jotter pads, marking the brand’s arrival into the premium stationery sector.
The new collection of stationery is the first of its kind for Fox & Butler and has been developed in response to customers wanting ‘luxurious yet understated paper goods that embody both sophistication and a modern design sensibility’.
The range will launch with an initial drop of four items featuring three notebooks and a jotter block - all made from fine Italian papers and faux leather: a pink faux leather A5 notebook featuring an envelope-style front cover and a brass press-stud closure, containing 208 cream lined pages with lie-flat binding; a lilac wire-bound A6 notebook with a pink elastic closure, featuring an embossed bee design with gold foil detail, containing 192 cream unlined pages; a slim gold faux leather notepad with a brass press-stud closure, containing 192 cream lined pages, which is suitable for shopping and to-do lists; and a pink and white candy-striped square jotter box, containing gold gilt-edged cream paper, which is suitable for phone messages and shopping lists.
A selection of boxed notecards is also available, providing a great pick-up item for shoppers who like to be organised with their social correspondence.
Fox & Butler cards and stationery are distributed exclusively by Pigment. Amy Thirkell, head of product management at Pigment, said: “Inspired by our love of all things paper, we’ve taken the quality and opulence of Fox & Butler cards to design this new range of beautiful stationery. The collection is perfect for retailers looking to elevate their gift and stationery offering, while also providing a great upsell for their shoppers - all with great profit margins. We are confident that these new additions to Fox & Butler will be just as successful as the greeting cards, and we look forward to extending the range very soon.”
Heyyy Cards
Check out Type Dreams - the new notebook collection from Heyyy Cards. A selection of fun and functional notebooks ready to capture your big dreams, master plans and crazy ideas. Printed in the UK from FSC sustainable sources, each notebook features 196 leaves of 80gsm cream lined paper and a brightly coloured elastic closure.
VENT for Change
Social and sustainable stationery brand VENT for Change has launched its new refillable, recycled and sustainable weekly planners. Available in seven colours to match the rest of its bestselling Make a Mark collection. Covers are made from recycled leather with refills made using 100% sustainable paper. Supplied as standard with two refills, a non-dated weekly planner with to-do list and a lined notes section. retail@ventforchange.co.uk www.VENTforChange.co.uk
lil wabbit
Love a list? So do the folk at card and gift makers lil wabbit. That’s why they are thrilled to have produced a whole line of list notepads.
Each list notepad features an intricate watercolour design and a bold block colour border, making them a stylish staple on a desk.
All five animal characters, whether it be the cowboy budgie, or the penguin on a pogo stick, feature a small note at the bottom encouraging the list-lover to ‘remember to smile’ and ’remember to have lots of fun’ etc. The small details on these products make them joyous to use.
Lil wabbit list notepads feature 50 easy-tear sheets and are manufactured by an FSC accredited, UK based printer. hello@lilwabbit.co.uk lilwabbit.co.uk.
ExaClair
ExaClair, the UK supplier of Rhodia notebooks, has added the Goalbook Creation range to its popular offering of journals.
The Rhodia Goalbook range was designed to bring a sense of positivity and well-being and give artistic journalers the opportunity to enhance their drawings on premium quality dedicated paper.
The Goalbook Creation range is available in 11 colours and contains premium-quality Clairefontaine black or white fine art papers, for ultra-creative journaling.
The black 120gsm Maya paper is deep dyed and perfectly smooth on both sides and features a light dot grid. It lends itself to precise drawing with pencil, felt-tip pen, graph liner and fountain pen in light or metallic colours.
The white 200gsm pen and ink wash plain paper has a very light grain and can be used for a wide variety of techniques although it is particularly suited to line drawings using pencil, felt-tip pen, charcoal, ink, graphic pen or gouache.
These A5 size Goalbooks feature Italian leatherette hard covers for durability.
Combine these with the Rhodia writing instruments for a stylish gift.
The brushed aluminium hexagonal body gives an air of sophistication. Both the ballpoint pen and the mechanical pencil are supplied in colour matched packaging. The pen has a high-precision 0.7 mm ballpoint tip, which is retractable with a simple click.
The pens and pencils are available in a choice of eight colours, the traditional Rhodia colours Black and Orange plus Sage Green, Turquoise, Navy Blue, Red, Rose Gold and Silver. Rhodia also offers notebooks in these colours. www.exaclairlimited.com
