Eating Ghosts

New in the shop are gorgeous prints by Dunedin based artist Devon Smith. The clever folks at Frankie have noticed how talented this lass is too & have done a wee write up on her. Great minds think alike! Small prints (A5) are $16.00 And large (A4) are $32.00 x

We love your blog

We read a lot of blogs here at the Swonderful headquarters. Some good, some bad and some so darn inspiring we have to blog about them ourselves! Color Me Katie is the kind of blog that puts a smile on your dial. Katie is a photographer living in NY with her boyfriend Matty & their cat Moo. She posts pictures of her work and the escapades she gets up to with her improv group Improv Everywhere. Their latest um, stunt(?) involved 2000 invisible dog leashes... what fun!


And here are some more examples of what Katie & Moo get up to...

Krafty locals

Brand spanking new in the shop today! Cute as journals from locals- Hotchpotch & Gruelboy. They are hand printed & hand cut on lovely recycled paper in white & kraft. Here are a couple of designs we have in, but there are also more colours in the owl print & a lovely cloud design too. So cute! X

Lula Love

We love Lula Magazine, it's right up there with Frankie & Peppermint. Unfortunately it can be a little hard to get hold of sometimes, but thanks to their new website you can now get a fix when a physical copy can't be found. Have a look at the sweet films on the website. We love the Miranda July one "Her Eyes are a Blue Million Miles" You'll love it too, and her dress! X

Wonderwall

We have a new mural!! Our outside wall was looking very lack luster after some meanie tore down our paste up :( But some very clever locals have filled it up once again with magical goodness. We've got monsters vomiting rainbows, cute doggish creatures & a pretty girl on a bike. We LOVE it! Thanks ever so much to BMD, DRYPNZ & Ragdoll. X

(Not so) Dirty Mongrels...

UPDATE
Fourfontaine have contacted us & wish to rectify the situation by pulling the top & have offered to pay us for units made. They said they outsource most of their designs which unfortunately can result in situations like this. They didn't know this design was ripped off until now. My goal with this post was just for people to know, & it worked! Kudos Fourfontaine & thanks to all our supporters, it really means a lot :)

On Friday night while having dinner with a friend who is also a designer, we were discussing copyright and how there seems to be many fashion houses etc with very similar designs. The next day I was looking at the Fourfontaine website I discovered they've ripped us off! I am still in a state of shock, this plagiarism makes me feel absolutely sick to my stomach. Seriously, can't they get their own ideas? & did they really think no one would notice in a country as small as ours? The worst part of it is, it makes me like our logo less, it has tainted it for me :(

The Fourfontaine top-

Our business card-
Our shop windows-
Our website-
A repeat I designed for the blog background a while back-

You can read more on plagiarism at-
Book by it's cover
You thought we wouldn't notice

SALE TIME!

Starts this Wednesday, See you there! X