Manchester Museum

A little natural world inspo on the blog and instagram this week from our recent trip to the Manchester Museum. As the current design trend centred around animal motifs (seen in the Tiger Lily collection) and the focus on environmental issues grows it's a good time to be taking in some inspirational animal themed spaces. Manchester Museum is the perfect place with fantastic historical collections plus dedicated environmental exhibition space and real live animals - our favourites were the brightly coloured tree frogs! Great to see a mention for GFSmith's eco Extract paper and we absolutely loved the gorgeously illustrated animal themed children's books, greetings & stationery in the fab shop. Well worth a visit.

MANCHESTER MUSEUM | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above clockwise from the top left: a snap of some of the fantastic shells wonderfully curated, a pic of the bodies section - absolutely love the font style of the neon signage, peace filled with origami cranes, beautiful butterflies, section of the fab card selection, british wildlife birds, a pic of the very beautiful main hall.

#manchestermuseum #naturalworld #naturalhistory #inspo #animal #paperlove 

Thinking of You Week

It's Thinking of You Week 2019. This wonderful initiative by the Greeting Card Association encourages us to send handwritten notes to friends and family members to show we're thinking of them. The new collection Aurora I designed for Cinnamon Aitch is perfect for the occasion and as is now tradition in our house, the children created some lovely little artworks to send along inside the cards. It is definitely a welcome break from screen time and great to spend a morning appreciating paper goodies.

THINKING OF YOU WEEK | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above: some photos of our card writing morning with the lovely uplifting aurora range new from cinnamon aitch for AW19.

#ThinkingOfYouWeek #SendaCardDeliveraSmile #paperlove #GCAUK @GCAUK @gca_uk #TOYW2019 #cinnamonaitch #aurora #greetingcards #stationery #paperart #love #instagood #art #instamood #cards #cardsofinstagram

Seaside Adventures

Hello! It's been a packed summer for us here, happily we spent some lovely days by the sea. Little mr Js favourite was the beach, especially the rock pools. I've been back in the studio for a few weeks working through the final SS20 projects - loads of news to come on those throughout the autumn on the blog - all very exciting. In the meantime here's a lovely pic of mr J enjoying the scenery in Scarborough.

SEASIDE ADVENTURES | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above: a photo from our trip to scarborough beach, mr J taking in the scenery. 

#seaside #summerbreak #autumntime #backtoschool

Summer Break

Well summer is here and we've had a lot of rain so far, I'm hoping the sun will stay for August! I'm taking a little seasonal break from the Karika Nova blog. I'll be back in the autumn with news on the exciting new SS20 projects I've been working on. In the mean time I'll catch you on instagram. Happy holidays! See you all soon x

SUMMER BREAK | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above: a photo I took from the traunsee boat - imagine staying in this little house at the bottom of the traunstein mountain, a beautiful place.

#summer #summerbreak #emilyhauck #traunsee #austria #holidays 

Pearl Drops

It's most definitely been a packed year so far, fantastically there's even more new product news on the Karika Nova blog this week. Samples have just arrived of the latest collection for 2019, Pearl Drops. A delightful effervescent greetings range I created in a new collaboration this year with Portfolio Cards. Launched along with the Tiger Lily at Progressive Greetings Live 2019, the Pearl Drops everyday cards feature a unique iridescent foil on crisp white environmentally friendly board. The design style uses delicate fine lines, glistening gems, beautiful foiling and fizzy confetti-like drops to illustrate those special celebration moments. The classic icons inspired by all things twinkly feature heart balloons, blossom trees, bubbly champagne and starry skies. Each design is hand finished in the UK and is packed with a pearlised envelope. Soon to be available in the shops.

PEARL DROPS | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above: a selection of designs from the pearl drops collection I designed for portfolio cards, launched at pg live 2019, available to stock now direct from portfolio cards.  The unique foil is certainly tricky to capture in a photo - pop over to instagram to see some sparkly close ups.

#pearldrops #portfoliocards #emilyhauck #pglive2019 #pglive #pglivelondon #greetings #greetingcards #design #illustration #paperlove

The World Exists To Be Put On A Postcard

On a recent trip to London I popped over to the British Museum to see their Postcard exhibition, the wordily named 'The World Exists To Be Put On a Postcard'. The collection focuses on postcards created by artists rather than those that just reproduce an artist's work. It's an interesting idea and I enjoyed the work shown however I would like to have seen more especially considering the very long trek to find the show in the depths of the museum! The pin board installation, designed to give the impression of an artists studio, unfortunately had the opposite effect and appeared rather stuffy. That said, it's great to see the humble postcard being given some space to shine. It has certainly motivated me to send some, I've included some artist inspired postcard top picks below.

THE WORLD EXISTS TO BE PUT ON A POSTCARD | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above clockwise from the top left: susan hiller - the flying spray - composite of 12 found postcards of rough seas, a view of the exhibition space, snap of the main museum atrium, love these inspiring female artist postcards - including kusama - by emma block illustration, unfortunately i didn't note the artist of these scenic cards - i love how they play with the traditional postcard composition, a pack of vintage postcards available on etsy, these abstract geometric postcards by kate lancaster pick up on some of the themes in the show,  loved this set of art and language postcards from 1977 - reminded me of some of gfsmith's work.

#postcard #postcards #theworldexiststobeputonapostcard #britishmuseum #art #artists #artistspostcards

Aurora

Excitingly there's even more design news on the Karika Nova blog this week. Following on from the best selling Cobalt range, Aurora is a brand new lovely uplifting greetings collection I created for Cinnamon Aitch. The range, named Aurora after the Roman goddess of the dawn who travelled east to west to announce the coming of the sun, features a beautiful shimmering golden foil. The little illustrations accompanying gently positive sentiments include cosmic stars, suns, beaming medals, friendly flowers and hearts. The Aurora design style picks up on the antique lino printing and traditional card making techniques. The new collection is printed in the UK, packed with a natural fibre envelope and available with a contemporary counter top display. Launched in June at PG Live 2019 and is now in the shops.

AURORA | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above: a selection from the brand new aurora collection I designed for cinnamon aitch, launched at pg live 2019, available now direct from cinnamon aitch. 

#aurora #cinnamonaitch #emilyhauck #newlaunches #pglive2019 #pglive #pglivelondon #greetings #stationeryshop #aw19 #greetingcards #design #illustration #paperlove #contemporarydesign #golden