paper+cup

These cards are from paper+cup, a Brooklyn couple dedicated to creating products that are both functional and fun to use. They've designed some wonderful letterpressed silhouette notecards.

I love these so much. The exuberance of the kids makes them almost jump off the page. They're letterpressed on bright white paper and come with white envelopes. They're sold individually for $4.50 or sold as a box of 10 for $20, including 2 birthday cards.

These Silogirl notecards are gorgeous. The images are letterpressed on bright white paper and come with colored envelopes to match the Silogirl. They can be bought individually for $4.50 or $20 for a box of 10 assorted cards.

paper+cup is set to introduce a line of home and office decor products later this month. I can't wait.

You are art

Imagine your portrait hanging in one of world's great art museums. With museumr, you can. Just upload one of your favorite photos or point the site to one of your photos online. While you're there, have more fun turning it into an Easter Egg, a jigsaw puzzle and more.

Kara Walker

The Walker Art Center, in our old hometown of Minneapolis, is currently exhibiting Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love featuring her signature black-paper silhouettes. It will be on view now through May 13.

Here's a brief description from the Walker:

Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained national and international recognition for her room-size tableaux depicting historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence, and subjugation but made using the genteel 18th-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the American South before the Civil War, Walker’s compositions play off stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely, life on the plantation, where masters and mistresses and slave men, women, and children enact a subverted version of the past in an attempt to reconfigure their status and representation.

You can learn more about the artist by visiting this site created by the Walker as a companion to the exhibition.

For those not in the Twin Cities, the exhibition will travel to the ARC/Musee d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (June 20 - September 9, 2007), the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (October 11, 2007–February 3, 2008), and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (February 17–May 11, 2008).

My Best Side

One of our favorite fabric designers, Michael Miller, recently came out with a great black and white collection, including this great pattern, "My Best Side":

One crafty mama, Kelly from Superbuzzy, was so inspired by the collection that she made this beautiful silhouette quilt of her daughter.

You can read more about how she did it here.

Fun with Silhouettes

Here are some fun ideas for your silhouettes. Jones Soda can make you a personalized 12 pack of sodas for just $29.95.


M&M's can put your silhouette on the color(s) of your choice:

And who knew that you could personalize your own Kleenex boxes?

At Simply Silhouettes we're only limited by your imagination. We love to do custom orders. Contact us today.

NOTE: It looks like we were on the same wavelength as someone else today. Check out this post.

Do You Have Your Merit Badge Yet?

We're big fans of great children's design here at Simply Silhouettes and few know it better than Robert Mahar of Mahar Dry Goods. He's recently launched Junior Society where he will be exploring better than average children's design in categories from Furnishings to Wardrobe to Cleanliness and more. One of our favorite entries so far (surprise, surprise) was this terrific one highlighting silhouettes. Go sign up today and earn yourself some merit badges.

wee love them

We were just checking out wee citizens for our daily dose of what's new in children's design and were thrilled to find that wee were featured.

Visit their site today and become a wee yourself.