Gale Astley reports on the greetings card and gift trade: For many years sales of Halloween-related products in the UK have been the skeleton in the cupboard, leaving shop tills rattling and retailers howling as the chilling event of the autumn season left British mortals cold. However today, from out of the darkness, Halloween has
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Baking news! There’s finally a design trend you can get your teeth into! The flaky and buttery crescent-shaped croissant is currently a craze in the food world, with bakers reinventing the billowy pastry with delicious flavours and inventive shapes. However, card designers have been peeking into the Parisian patisserie parlour window and snaffling inspiration too.
In 1985, the imaginative spectacles of Live Aid, Back to the Future and the first episode of EastEnders enthralled audiences of millions – yes, 13 million watched the initial soap opera’s screening. In the same year, airing visual concepts from accomplished design creatives from universities and colleges across Britain, the inaugural New Designers show was
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Botanical greetings card brand Umbellifer is launching a new range called Glorious Gardens. The concept behind the range is to celebrate great British flower gardens from the humble cottage garden to the long borders of great estates and to inspire all gardeners to add strong design elements to their own outdoor space. Umbellifer’s owner an
Drifting onto the design shores for 2024 is the Be Jelly trend hypnotically gliding onto catwalks, home decor, prints and of course greeting cards. From the watery, iridescent jellyfish to the nostalgic and wobbly pudding, the jelly aesthetic is mesmerising, translucent, shimmering and squishy. Touching on the tendrils of this trend and discovering the shape
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Spring Fair welcomed some of retail’s biggest hitters on day three withV Dragon and retail entrepreneur Theo Paphitis, and ESG pioneer Paul Wright from PDS who headlined the show’s sustainability content taking to the Inspiring Retail Stage to packed audiences. Lifting the lid on 2024’s opportunities and challenges for retail businesses, Paphitis highlighted the importance
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