Etsy Sale!

To celebrate the end of Mentor Month (a scheme that The Brighton Etsy Team piloted for Etsy!) we are having a 10% SALE on our entire Etsy shop until the 14th of August! Just use the code MMSALE at the checkout to claim your discount. You can use this discount in loads of other Etsy shops that were a part of Mentor Month too, here are a few of our favourite sale steals :o)

Designosaur, ROARsome laser cut jewellery!

Mooshpie, beautiful magical handprinted things.

Miss Cake, amazing cake toppers (and our lovely mentor!)

Rockcakes, amazing laser cut and precious jewellery!

Eliza Joan, modern and intricate crochet jewellery design (and our lovely mentee!)

I Like Cats, illustrated, painted, knitted and sewn cat themed amazingness!

Yellow Bear Wares, beautiful jewellery made from knitting needles

Kirstin Stride, gorgeous hand drawn jewellery

Becky Queen of Frocks, vintage-inspired handmade clothing label

EanJewellery, handmade contemporary silver jewellery

To find other shops participating in the MMSALE click here!

Brighton Etsy Craft Camp Window

Today we helped to install the Brighton Etsy Team's Craft Camp window at Super+Super! Well, I say we helped but Jam mostly helped with his tallness and I just tied a few bits of string. Cheska of Mooshpie was the real brains behind it all with help from Karli of Designosaur and Toby of I like CATS. Lots of Brighton Etsy Team members decorated little cardboard tents and made awesome decor at the Team Craft Party which also went in to making the window display.

Jam and Cheska figuring things out!

And the finished window this eve!! Sorry I took these on my phone so the quality isn't great. They definitely don't do the window justice in all it's glory so be sure to check it out throughout July.

The shield banner was made by the AMAZING Ellen of B Millinery and features the brand new Brighton Etsy Team logo which we designed :o)


Check out the teeny tiny clothes line!

Our SIX colour (8 including the back..) screenprinted badge!

Lots of lovely tents. You can see our Carl the Chameleon at the back there :o)


More lovely tents including our Ten Green Bottles screenprinted one. The pretty one at the front is by Designosaur.

The Super+Super girls are amazing for letting us take over their window for the month! And the Brighton Etsy Team is full of amazing awesome talented people. Be sure to check out the window display for yourself!

Bear With Me...

Hello! We're back from our holiday in Estonia and we've hit the ground running with a WHOLE LOAD of crazy exciting things going on. This means new designs, new PRODUCTS (soon!) and lots of exciting things going on with the Brighton Etsy Team! We were sad to miss the Brighton Etsy Craft Party while we were away (if you missed it too, check out pics HERE! Photos by the awesome Bob Prosser) but we're super happy to be contributing to the Craft Camp window display of Super+Super which is being built tomorrow! ALSO July is Mentor Month which is a scheme the Brighton Etsy team are trialling for Etsy. hello DODO will be mentored by an amazing Etsy seller and in turn we'll be mentoring a newbie. Exciting stuffs! More on that soon... In the meantime have you seen our Bear With Me design yet?! It's our new fave! We have 15% off in the Etsy shop until 10pm tonight with code DODORETURNS so be quick! :o)

AT Open House

We're excited to be lucky enough to have been invited back to AT Open House this May! If you're not from Brighton, Artists Open Houses is a festival that runs throughout May and for 3 weeks in November-December. Each weekend of the festival people open their own homes up as gallery spaces. AT Open House is at 42 Hendon Street in Kemp Town and is run by the very lovely April and Tim and their home is BEAUTIFUL! (honestly, it is pretty much my dream house!) They also have fantastic taste in very diverse art and design. Here is a peek at a little of what you can expect from the house...




We were VERY excited to hear that Claire Scully was joining the AT line up this time around! We have followed her work online for ages but it is amazing to see it in the flesh. These pictures really don't do them enough justice! The detail is INSANE. There is a particular BIG owl print (not pictured here) that you will see first on entering the house and I'm completely in love with it...


One of our favourite Brighton printmakers Snorkus is also at AT Open House, her work is so happy and colourful, right up our street! You can also find fantastic hand stitched toys in vintage fabrics by Snorkus is the house.


Superduper typographer Delicious Industries returns to AT with some great new linocut prints...VERY tempted by these!


Natalie Martin is an incredible painter, I particularly love her pieces which depict everyday urban spaces such as these two.

Mr Wingate has a studio in East London and produces beautiful architectural inspired screenprinted tea towels, cushions and this amazing Big Ben clock!

Dead Methods produces awesome letterpress work as well as these gorgeous intricate screenprints (above).

Graphic collective Best also return to AT Open House with some awesome new work, LOVE this bat screenprint by Hiroshi!
This is just a teeny tiny taster of the fantastic work being shown at AT Open House this month...and we haven't even mentioned the unbelievable cake!!! Pop along next weekend and you'll find us there too! We also have ALL of our new work (plus new totes!) available :o)

EPIC PICK ME UP 2013 BLOGPOST!

Have we already mentioned how much we LOVE Pick Me Up? No?! This year was the fourth time the show has run at Somerset House in London and also our fourth annual visit....and quite possible the BIGGEST AND BEST PICK ME UP SO FAR! If you're unfamiliar, Pick Me Up is a graphic arts festival which runs for 2 weeks each year and showcases the most incredible design and illustration work by individuals and collectives. Also as I said in my previous post, Pick Me Up is also one of the main catalysts which caused us to start working together, teach ourselves to screenprint and create hello DODO! So it definitely has a special place in our hearts. But I shall stop talking and get to the pictures as I took about a billion (took HOURS to edit them!) I tried REALLy hard to make notes of all of the artist's names but if I have missed any that you want to know about just ask and I'll try to figure it out! We'll start off with the Pick Me Up Selects which is the first section of the show where up and coming individual talent is showcased...

The first thing you see when you walk in is Brighton graduate Tom Edwards's wild and domestic cats!

MaricorMaricar's stitched illustrations made us giggle! They are twins from Sydney, Australia.

Daniel Frost was one of our ULTIMATE faves! We really loved his colours and there was so much going on in what at first appear to be quite simple paintings. His miniatures were also AWESOME...

More Daniel Frost (above)

Even more Daniel Frost (above again)


LOVED this jungle scene from Ping Zhu!

Playful work by Jean Jullien

Gorgeous magical illustrations by You Byun

Crazy bright graphic work (and Eighties toys!) from Rob Flowers

A (very) naughty and totally mesmerising Kama Sutra Alphabet by one of our favourite designers and printmakers Malika Favre. Smitten!

Malika Favre close up!

Another of our most favourite of faves was the work by Sarah Vanbelle - LOVE LOVE LOVE!!


You might recognise the work of Malarky if you've ever walked around East London when the shops have their shutters down...


This stunning screenprint (yep it's a screenprint!) is by Stuart Patience


Yummy neon by Anna Lomax

William Goldsmith - love the tortoise!

Was surprising but nice to see Lazy Oaf!

Crazy things happening in the Print Club London room

Day Job was one of our favourite collectives! LOVELY work!

Risograph goodness from Day Job

Pick Me Up regulars Nelly Duff

UNBELIEVABLE three colour screenprint in the Nelly Duff room....these vase prints were HUGE.

Fatherless Print Posse were doing live screenprinting of CRAZY layered design!




All sorts of things you can get involved with at Pick Me Up!


Brothers of the Stripe collective - love this by Will Scobie

LOVE the Handsome Frank room! Soooooo varied and amazing. Sarah Maycock's HUGE dog watercolours were somehow amazingly simple and crazily lifelike at the same time. She was also one of our faves from last years Pick Me Up selects.


More magic from Malika Favre in the Handsome Frank room (above)
ARE YOU STILL WITH ME?! Honestly, this is the WELL edited version...
We were SOOOOOO excited that Brighton's very own Unlimited Edition's had their own space this year and it was AWESOME! It was also nice as so many of the artists they represent are our faves...

Imeus Design (above two screenprints) is one of our heroes!

More fabulous and familiar screenprinters in the Unlimited room - Popcorny and Hello Marine.
Every year at Pick Me Up the Soma Gallery space blows our minds and this year was no exception! Plus another chance to see even more of our favourite screenprinters - Peskimo (top left design) who we adore and a firm fave of ours Hazel Nicholls who is new to Soma (bottom two prints). We also giggled a lot at Nicholas John Frith's 'Who you calling Platy-Pussy?"

 Ok! I'm forcing myself to stop cos I'm going a bit cross-eyed! But seriously, this is barely even HALF of the awesomeness that is Pick Me Up! If you haven't been able to visit this year (it ends Sunday) then DEFINITELY put it in your diary for next year!!!

 *collapses*