Konstfacks Christmas fair was great, lots of nice visitors (some of our prints are now out of stock) and many nice pieces, for exampel this hyacint who is staying with us now!
“As a symbol for the strenght and power of the natur the flower is explosively growing up through the surface of the clay.”
says Karin Frankenstein and Anton Alvarez.
For a long time we have been thinking of how to re-use all the proof textiles. They are like a visual history of jollygoodfellow. Old and new prints side by side and on top of each other. Now we have started to cut out squares, and we are thinking of having them as scarfs! And maybe we will add an extra print to some of them.
Soon it is time for a Christmas tour. You will find us, for the second year in a row, at three Christmas fairs here in Stockholm, so it’s starting to become a tradition.
This year we move up one floor from Tellusgången and take part in Konstfacks Christmas fair at Telefonplan November 27-28, the fair is open between 10-17.
Manos has left the green house at Överjärva Gård and moved to Renstiernas gata 22, Södermalm, Stockholm. The first time we passed by our “jussi” was in the window! Today we delivered lots of newly printed “jussis”: bodys, t-shirts and tote bags.
Karin, who runs Manos, sells her own nice ceramics (which you also see in the picture above) among hand picked items from […]
We have made an alternative cover for The Forest & The Trees!
Who wants a record cover nowadays? Well, most of our friends don’t care. So we made the cover bigger and left out the cd. Actually, it’s big enough to carry your favourite magazines or the groceries. And it contains a code to download The Forest & The Trees debut album.
Yes now it’s on the wall! It has been available on the web a week and today we delivered some calendars to Fotografiska and konst-ig here in Stockholm.
urbnCal 2011 Copenhagen is:
• 12 sheets (jan-dec) of environmentally friendly (FSC-certified)
swedish high quality uncoated paper (Munken Lynx Rough,170 g/m2).
+ 1 sheet with a list of all […]
Today we sent our darling to the printer! The test print is already on its way back, we are so excited to see how it turns out, but for the final result we have to wait until September 24th. And the 25th we are going to Copenhagen to celebrate the release at hansenogjensen, Tullinsgade 24 (Jun 24 in urbnCal 2011). If […]
Sisaret is the Finnish word for sisters. This print is dedicated to Esa’s late mother and all other sisters. In the 60’s and 70’s there was an unwritten rule in some churches that women shouldn’t cut their hair but wear it in a topknot (pingstknut in swedish), the tighter the better. To get the right feel for this print we