Greetings from Finland

We started the summer with a fantastic trip to the Finnish countryside. In a way, a journey through time as well, a trip to the days before running water and electricity (not totally, now and then we were able to borrow electricity and network, so some pictures from there are on instagram). What a feeling it is to carry wood and lighting a fire to get hot water and sauna or to fish up the lunch from the lake. We came home with a lot of new energy and inspiration from the exciting environments. Now we will continue working on some new prints for the Formex autumn fair mixed with salty water baths in the Baltic Sea, HAPPY SUMMER!

By |2020-04-17T11:17:25+02:00July 3rd, 2014|diverse, inspiration|Comments Off on Greetings from Finland
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What is it good for?

We couldn’t said it better ourselves, so we borrowed the words of Edwin Starr (or Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong who wrote the song “War”). We started to screen print it as black text on white paper (of course). We felt that it was someone else who said it, someone with a stronger voice than we have. So we did a calmer version – for us who don’t feel comfortable with shouting. We think the message gets through also in the more modest version. It was the first time we printed with white ink on grey paper and we think it turned out very well. The colours give us a nice old-office vibe. Maybe we will do more with that combination!

The posters also work one by one. The first poster leaves an empty space after the question which you can interpret as “absolutely nothing”. And if you want – poster number 2 can hang by itself an be an answer to a completely different (imagined) question.

And since we came to think of peace demonstrations, we made these two. Maybe we’ll go out on the streets with an old tape recorder with Edvin Starr singing out the message, if our patience runs out.

Peace!

By |2020-04-17T11:17:25+02:00May 7th, 2014|ON WALL|Comments Off on What is it good for?
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Early Bird – art and breakfast

Here in Skåne it´s a tradition since the sixties that artists open up their studios during Easter. It started at Österlen with ÖSKG and this year we joined the tradition and opened up our studio – at least two mornings. And we can tell you it was two wonderful mornings with a lots of nice visitors and a realy nice guest artist, LEJONLINN. Maybe we do it again next year!

Many of the items you see in the pictures you also find in our shop and if you don’t, you can always send us a mail.

By |2020-04-17T11:17:25+02:00April 25th, 2014|notes|Comments Off on Early Bird – art and breakfast
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Arvo

Ten years ago, when we started screen printing together, Esa played around with roots. It became prints on some t-shirts with roots in different compositions. One of them was a play with the similarity between roots and hair, a calm man with a long beard of roots and eyes made of the letters a and p.

When we started to think of all the old prints we have left behind, we felt that we really wanted to give “Arvo” a second life. This time we worked further on the shape of the beard to get it look more like the real Arvo beard sitting on the chin of Arvo Pärt (one of our favorite composers in terms of modern classical music). This is not supposed to look like a portrait (as you see) but we think it turned out pretty well and gives, at least us, a feeling of Arvo Pärt and his music.

Here it is, the poster Arvo! And of course you find him in the jollygood shop as well.

 

By |2020-04-17T11:17:25+02:00March 7th, 2014|ON WALL|Comments Off on Arvo
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Mini Notebooks

We call them mini and they are so small that they are just right to keep along with a smartphone (60 x 105 mm) to quickly scribble down what comes into your mind!

Our mini have the same basis as Jollygood Notebooks, 64 pages of the same lovely silky paper (Munken Pure 100g) thick enough so that the ink does not go through. They have no extra cover, the motifs are carved in rubber (by us) and then stamped/printed by hand on every little Mini.

The idea came to us after using our Jollygood Notebooks for a while, we felt that we wanted to complement with something even smaller, even more accessible. Here they are, like little sisters to our Jollygood Notebooks: Mini Notebooks!

We have explored the possibility of using them for flip book animations and just want to do more! A basic technique which suits us fine, you can see our trials on instagram #jollygoodflip. And we’d love to see yours there too!

By |2020-04-17T11:17:25+02:00January 30th, 2014|NOTEBOOKS|Comments Off on Mini Notebooks
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Världsmästarcykeln in colour

When we had printed Världsmästarcykeln and Världsmästarcykeln XL we knew immediately that we wanted to continue to work with the bike theme. We started looking for other models and we have received several suggestions, but we still felt that we were not really finished with Världsmästarcykeln. For us it is somehow the bike. Then came the idea to start print it in color. And we thought, why not try? You are usually able to choose the colour of a bike when you’re in a bike store, so why not fix some new colours on our bike for spring 2014.

We have carefully mixed a colour which we think is near the orange hue we associate with Crescent’s World Championship bike. And we added a bright green and a really dark purple. Colours that are intended to work both together and separately.

When we stood at the printing table, we became so fond of the combination of mint green / purple that we printed a version with both colours, one above the other. So here are the spring colours according jollygoodfellow.

 

By |2020-04-17T11:17:25+02:00January 22nd, 2014|ON WALL|Comments Off on Världsmästarcykeln in colour
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JOLLYGOOD NOTEBOOKS

A pen on a piece of paper is something very special for us. Sometimes there is no app that can compete with a physical notebook.

Here are nice pages from our wall calendar urbnCal and test prints  from the screenprint workshop given new life as covers for our notebooks. We cut up and select nice parts to match the cover.

For the inlay we have felt our way through several papers to get to the ultimate, an uncoated paper that still isn’t too rough, but thick enough so that the ink doesn’t go through. We chose Munken Pure 100g, an environmentally friendly swedish paper. 64 pages in a practical A6 format (105 × 148 mm or 4.13 × 5.83 in) so it can slip down in your pocket or bag.

The box is made in Stockholm by norrmalmskartongfabrik a great place for paper nerds and screen printed by us. In the jollygoodfellow shop you find them as pack of 12 in a box or pack of 2.

This is notebooks our way, it’s JOLLYGOOD NOTEBOOKS!

 

 

 

By |2020-04-17T11:17:25+02:00January 11th, 2014|NOTEBOOKS|1 Comment
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