looking back on this summer

L-R:Our drying rack full of Silverlake neighborhood postcards, carving Santa Monica Radiator Works, ink for our letterpress Greetings cards in pool blue

We're really gearing up for Fall and Winter over here, even though it's still warm and sunny short wearing weather here in L.A. And as we work on our holiday collection we can't help but think back about the amazing and busy summer we've had!

L-R: Robin hanging out at Kelly Paper, packaging our Westside LA Postcards, photo shoot for our 2013 f/w Look Book

This summer, we launched a number of new items and relaunched some old favorites! We expanded our neighborhood postcards, added Some City Birds and Some More City Birds to our note card sets and began offering limited editioned prints like our Cinerama Dome, Norm's Santa Monica and Sun-Lake Drugs. This meant a lot of time at Kelly Paper in Hollywood and even more time printing in the studio!

Eastside Handmade hosted by Shopclass in Highland Park in August

We also participated in a number of craft shows this summer, including our very first Unique LA and Renegade shows. And, wrapped up the season at one of our favorite local pop-up shops, Eastside Handmade in Highland Park. We were so happy to take part in the summer version of this show, we had such a great time hanging out with our neighbors Hello Neighbor (participating in her very first show!) and our real life neighbors at Love&Arrow.

Finally a day at the beach in Malibu. It was sooo hot, even on the Westside!

We also had some splendid visits from old friends and family, and actually managed to make it to the beach during our latest heat wave! 

Summer sunset in Koreatown, Los Angeles.

It's been a delightful summer, full of ups and downs! Summer of 2013 you've been grand, we're kind of sad to see you slowly fade away, but we're also excited as we turn towards a busy and promising fall and winter!

Hope you've had a great summer too!
Rosemary+Robin

new stockist: BKB Ceramics in Joshua Tree

Upper L-R: Succulent note cards, now carried by BKB Ceramics, image from our 2013 f/w Look Book
Lower L-R: BKB Ceramics, our succulent note cards on display at BKB Ceramics (both images BKB Ceramics' Instagram feed)

We're really happy to share Ink+Smog Editions' first Joshua Tree stockist, BKB Ceramics! They're a lovely little shop that concentrates on pure, sustainable, conscious, handcrafted design. They'll be reopening on September 14th for Second Saturday with a newly expanded shop and studio.

BKB Ceramics is now carrying Ink+Smog Editions Succulent note cards, so next time you're in Joshua Tree, stop by and see them in person!

have a look...at fall/winter 2013

We're hard at work on our 2013 Holiday Collection that we'll be sharing on Instagram over the next few weeks. In the meantime take a sneak peek at our 2013 Fall/Winter Look Book below.

For all wholesale inquiries, send us an email and we'll be happy to send you our complete wholesale information package.


We hope you've had a great summer!
Rosemary+Robin

currently in production

We've had a very busy summer full of craft shows, pop-up shops and a lot of running around. It's been exciting, exhausting and edifying! Now that we've made it through, we're really enjoying taking the time to get back into the studio and work on some new projects. 

We've just listed some new cards that we launched at the Summer edition of the  Eastside Handmade pop-up shop in Highland Park last weekend. We added some new neighborhoods to our sets of City Greetings cards. We now offer Echo Park, Highland Park, Culver City, Santa Monica and Silver Lake as well as Los Angeles. We'll be adding some more neighborhoods and cities soon, so stay tuned!

We've also been busy reprinting our set of Los Angeles Westside postcards that we're nearly out of stock (literally, we had one last set left that we found mixed in with another neighborhood!). We've had a great response from our neighborhood postcards, everyone seems to get a real kick out of sharing hyper-local snapshots of their corner of the world.

It's been fun to revisit some of our older designs while we get to work on our winter holiday collection. The Venice card in particular has been a beast for us to print in the past, so much so that we were actually considering changing the design after our current stock sold out. However, when we got it on the press the other day, by some miracle, it printed like a dream! We aren't questioning what happened, we think it's mostly because we changed inks, but who knows as long as it works!

We've also added some prints to the shop, we're offering three limited editions of 100 signed prints of the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, the Sun-Lake Drugs building in Silver Lake and the Norm's from Santa Monica that closed recently. We're offering them as framed and unframed prints. Once we've sold out our full run of 100, we'll add a new design. 

We're also working on some other projects that aren't quite ready for prime time yet, we're getting really excited and can't wait to tell everyone about it. Fingers crossed we'll be able to tell you soon! We hope you're having a great summer, here in L.A. it's been cooler than last summer, we'll see what the fall brings!

Rosemary+Robin

thank you!

UniqueLA and Renegade were great shows, thank you to everyone who came by and said hi over the past two weekends. It was great catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. It was especially fun to meet some of our Instagram followers and blog readers in person! 

our booth setup at Unique LA at the Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport

We had such a great time at both shows, we're already looking forward to the winter shows in December (PS. we're hard at work on our Winter edition cards, they should be in production soon so stay tuned to Instagram for some sneak peeks!).

our booth setup at Renegade at Los Angeles State Historic Park

We didn't have much of a chance to wander the aisles at either show, but we were paired with Abacus Row, a great booth partner at Unique, and totally fell in love with her delicate jewelry. Rosemary picked up a California Love ring from Honey My Heart and finally picked out a freeway from L.Makai's Commuter Collection, she's been coveting one of these since the UniqueLA spring show. We also chose some amazing prints from Krank Press and Power and Light Press, we can't wait to get them up on the wall!

L-R: Abacus Row at Unique, California Love ring from Honey My Heart, the 110 Freeway from L.Makai's Commuter Collection, bird print from Krank Press and California state print from Power and Light Press.

It was really hot both weekends, but this past weekend was especially hot and humid, it even rained a bit (a rarity for Southern California!). We couldn't have gotten through it all without the amazing popsicles from Front Porch Pops, we have to admit we tried a few of their flavors, but loved their roasted peach popsicles the best!

cooling down with Front Porch Pops popsicles, they were soooooo good!

We're taking a few days off to relax, take care of life things and work on some big projects that we have coming up soon, then we'll be back at work so that we can replenish the things that sold out in time for Eastside Handmade at Shopclass on York in Highland Park August 10 from 3-10pm as part of NELA art walk. If you have a chance, stop by and say hi, it's such a great collection of makers and sellers, we're so happy to take part again!

We hope you're enjoying your summer so far!

See you soon,

Rosemary+Robin

a lot going on

We're working really hard, getting ready for Unique LA this weekend, Renegade next weekend and then Eastside Handmade at the beginning of August. 

Some of our new cards launching at Unique and Renegade, our new neon cards and the new versions of our freeway cards without borders.

We have a number of new designs launching as well as the debut of our line of prints, both framed and unframed. We're also taking the opportunity to officially re-launch a few of our favorite designs. The freeway cards have gotten a bit of a makeover and we're bringing back our neon sign cards in black and white and in neon! We'll be listing everything in the shop shortly after Renegade.

L-R: our new letterpress summer cards and our new packaging, the aftermath of our card folding party, stamping paper bags for Unique and Renegade (we LOVE our new logo stamp!!!)

Our friend Robert Turek has also been working on a new display for us, we are so incredibly excited to see it for the first time tomorrow and to make use of it this weekend at Unique. (Here's a quick picture he sent us late last night!)

We're also working on a few longer term projects that we're incredibly excited about. We can't wait to tell you about them, so stay tuned! (A great way to do that is to join our email mailing list here).

L-R: Our stock for the shows, we're not done yet but we're getting there!, our pretty ice cream letterpress block while printing our strawberry cards, Robin taking a quick nap while printing.

There's definitely a lot going on these days, it's a little overwhelming sometimes, and we can't wait to start getting a little more sleep. But it's also really exciting (ok, we know, we've said that a lot in this post, we promise to be more eloquent once we've made it through the crazy!)

L-R: Our Hello Summer! letterpress cards and working on our Norm's Santa Monica block, one of our new line of prints that come both framed and un-framed.

Hope you're all having a great summer! It's actually raining here in L.A., the first summer rain we've seen since we moved here. It's really strange!

That's all for now, 

Rosemary+Robin

save the date for Ink+Smog at Eastside Handmade in August!

We're very happy to announce that we'll be taking part in the Summer edition of Eastside Handmade in August at Shopclass on York so please save the date! We had a great time  in April, we're happy to take part again!

See you there!

Rosemary+Robin