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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 jollygoodfellow|2020-04-17T11:17:25+02:00January 22nd, 2014|ON WALL|Comments Off

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

From stack to rack

This week we have planned and built a rack to dry our prints, mostly with things found in our basement. Afterwards we were eager to try it and printed the first part of the bicycle poster. Usually its hard to find room for a bunch of 70×100 cm sheets, but this worked really good!

We also found out that the roof was leaking just over the rack filled with new prints , but that’s another story.

Now there is hanging a bucket were the drops are falling. And we are looking forward to print the second part of the bicycle next week after some changes in the screen frame.

By jollygoodfellow|2013-11-03T23:05:43+02:00November 3rd, 2013|process|Comments Off

Världsmästarcykeln (World Champion Bike)

For us a bicycle is the optimal way to get around in a city! You get to know the city in a whole new way, and the city becomes easier to grasp.

The print Världsmästarcykeln!
The idea with this poster is to give the impression of having a real bike on the wall, therefore we wanted to print as close to natural size as possible. Our solution was to split the motif on two 70x100cm sheets.

We wanted to start from a classic racing bike, which for us feels a little like an icon for cycling. By a lucky chance there was a bike exhibition in our hometown of Malmö. We went there on the last day and snapped some pictures for inspiration. Immediately we felt that Harry Snell’s old worn Crescent would be perfect. One of the reasons was that Harry won the amatuer race in Valkenburg 1948 and after that Crescent was branded as the World Champion Bike for years, and the other that it simply had the right feeling.

But the pictures had a noisy background, so we had to spend many hours at the computer to create a nice bike silhouette. It was also the first time we screen printed a large format poster and we made many trials before we got it the way we wanted it. But now both of us absolutely agree that it was worth all the hard work!

The bike can demonstrate an active and healthy lifestyle (or the dream of it) . It can stand for freedom and taking responsibility for our world’s future through a minimal environmental impact.

The photographer and the bike.

There is something very aesthetical with bicycles, graceful and subtle at the same time, and graphical!

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Update:
Many of you seem to have enjoyed our effort and the edition of Världsmästarcykeln XL is sold out.

We have now a new bike print called Ride, read more about it here or have a look in the jollygood shop!

By jollygoodfellow|2020-04-17T11:17:26+02:00October 22nd, 2013|ON WALL|2 Comments

Parcels to Malmö, Stockholm, Uppsala and Tokyo

We’ve packed for days and now many of the boxes have arrived at the new and old retailer shops, it feels amazing! The new shops are now also included in our reseller list which is twice as long now, take a look!

By jollygoodfellow|2020-04-17T11:17:26+02:00September 21st, 2013|notes|Comments Off

Kotten on chipboard

We have started to experiment with painting and screen printing on different materials. Here is a short presentation of the first collection of art works. Eight unique paintings. Which one is your favorite?

Right now they are available at Nordic Design Collective (for international orders please send a message).

By jollygoodfellow|2020-04-17T11:17:26+02:00April 1st, 2013|ON WALL|Comments Off

Esperanto
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Esperanto

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Esperanto

Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton? (Do you speak Esperanto?)

It’s really fascinating this ambitious idea to create a new language to foster harmony between people. Esperanto is, after 125 years, still spoken, but I guess English is hard to compete with (which we also use on this web site). If it wasn’t for M. A. Numminen we might not have thought about it that much. But a language he knows and even sings in must be worth a hand silkscreened poster!

Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto (“Esperanto” translates as “one who hopes”), the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, on July 26, 1887. Zamenhof’s goal was to create an easy-to-learn and politically neutral language that transcends nationality and would foster peace and international understanding between people with different regional and/or national languages.

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This poster is part of a series we are working on that explores the graphic expression of languages (and the relationships between people) with the starting point in Sweden, where we live.

Buy it here in our shop!

Sisaret poster

Sisaret is the Finnish word for sisters, you can read more about the print “Sisaret” and have a look at the tote bag – version here.

The poster is screen printed by hand on heavy off-white (Munken Pure 240g) uncoated swedish paper.
Size: 46×64 cm (18×25 inches) Stamped title and signed with pencil (which you can also see in the picture below).

Available here !

By jollygoodfellow|2020-04-17T11:17:27+02:00September 1st, 2012|ON WALL|Comments Off