Brand New Sierra Club Products...

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Say “thanks,” with a touch of style.

The brand new product in the Pomegranate range is sure to turn a simple “thank you,” into a classy, artful message. We are proud to present our new Thank you notes. Measuring 12.5 x 9cm these adorable mini note cards are perfect for that little gesture to show your appreciation.

The cards are available in boxes of 10 with mini envelopes to match, adorned with the words “Thank You” on the front, in the style of one of 4 artists. Available from launch are sets covering Inuit Art, Edward Gorey, Frank Lloyd Wright and Scotland’s favourite artist / architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Each box has a clear top so that you can see the design of the cards inside and insightful information about the artist on the back.

Whether the situation requires a delicate thank you from Gorey’s uni-cycling cat, or a sincere show of appreciation from an Inuit preening owl, the new Pomegranate thank you cards fit any “thank you” perfectly.

Black History Month

Black History Month is held every October in Britain. The aims are to:

• Promote knowledge of Black History and experience
• Disseminate information on positive Black contributions to British Society
• Heighten the confidence and awareness of Black people in their cultural heritage.
  

The origins of BHM go back to 1926 when Carter G Woodson, editor for thirty years of the Journal of Negro History, established African Caribbean celebrations in America. It is still celebrated there in February each year. In Britain, the BHM has now grown to over 1400 events.

With such a great range of African American Art, Black History and Slavery products, Pomegranate is proud to announce a limited special offer for this years Black History Month. On orders placed before 1st October we will be offering...

Calendars: Any assortment of 25+ Black Art and Culture titles (shown below), at 55% discount, on a Firmsale Basis. These orders are shipped within the UK for free and stock is available right away.

Paper Proucts: Any orders from our African American Publications catalogue, which includes books, Knowledge Cards, Postcard books, Notecards, Postcards etc (please email: danielr@pomeurope.co.uk for a copy) will be granted an EXTRA 5% discount on top of normal trade terms. Minimum order £125, shipped within the UK for free.

Brand New Book from Pomegranate...

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All Wrapped up...

This summer Pomegranate is welcoming some great new additions to the designer gift-wrap range. Now sporting 22 stunning adaptations of old, new, famous and obscure designs the designer gift-wrap range has something for everyone.

Including works by artists such as Tiffany, William Morris and Gustav Klimt, plus a superb set of 5 designs from Frank Lloyd Wright, make this a range that is not to be missed. Fans of the Insect art of Christopher Marley won’t be disappointed either, there is a fun new design featuring his vivid, colourful insect photographs.

We’ve taken 4 of the most popular Frank Lloyd Wright gift-wrap designs and adapted them into a set of gift tags, which combined with the wrap give any gift that special, designer look. Available in a presentation box including 36 tags (9 each of 4 designs) this new set promises to be a hit with anyone with an eye for design and a taste for style.

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Jane's favourite artist...

"The artist whose work really appeals to my personal taste is Robert Bateman and the wonderful wildlife illustrations he captures on canvas.

The detail in his pictures is so accurate, you could almost reach out and touch the creature or bird he has painted. I love nature and he portrays nature at its very best."

- Jane


See - Robert Bateman's Beautiful New Book

Ley's Favourite Artist.....

"For me great art is not only a work, which immediately grabs your senses and shakes them up but one which endures. Those images that you go back to time and time again because you see or sense something different in the picture each time you look.

One artist who does this time and time again is Edward Hopper. At first his paintings may look a little empty, - but it is the expansive 'room' in his paintings which hold the enigmatic force of his work. He situates objects and characters in strange, isolated positions so that you make up the story of the image. Brilliant!"

-Ley Bricknell

Pomegranate staff's favourite artists and why...

Over the next few weeks I'll be getting some of the Pomegranate Europe staff to write about their favourite artists. We'll start off with mine....

"My taste in art is always changing as I’m exposed to such a variety working here at Pomegranate. I believe art needs to be interesting, whether it’s the image itself or the thoughts provoked by it. At the moment the artist I’m enjoying most is Escher. I find the optical illusions within his work keep me both entertained and puzzled. With the repeating, transforming patterns and never ending staircases you can really immerse yourself in the image and get lost in his disobedience to gravity and physics." - Dan (me)

Like Escher? Don't like Escher? Would like to say a few words on your own favourite artist? - Please don't hesitate to leave us a comment. - We love to hear your opinions on art.

Summer releases from Pomegranate

Summer 2007 will see some great new additions to the Pomegranate range. Coming throughout June and July are 13 new sets of our best selling Boxed notecards, including works by Edward Hopper, Romare Bearden and Winslow Homer to name a few. Also in the launch are two sets of panoramic notecards, featuring beautiful artwork relating to the famous Wine making regions of California.

We’ve further extended our boxed postcard range, which now sports a stylish, classy, collectors title focusing on the album covers of Jazz saxophonist and composer, John Coltrane. Containing 20 postcards, this title now sits alongside our Crumb, Gorey, Frank Lloyd Wright and Judy Chicago postcard boxes to provide a constantly growing selection. The John Coltrane postcard set is also joined by 2 of our new postcard books, Covering Jazz and Covering Blues, which both focus on the most famous album covers of their respective musical genres.

An important new release for this season is our new set of Sacred Journey cards. A constant best selling calendar title is our Sacred Journey planner, which enlightens and inspires the user while encouraging their spiritual growth. This very popular title will soon be available in a set of greeting cards. The ability to send a little well-chosen, spiritual guidance or support to a friend or relative, on one of these beautiful cards will be useful for anyone with a connection to their spiritual feelings.

An old line to return to Pomegranate this summer is our mouse mat range. Featuring work by some of our most published artists, this previously discontinued range is back with a vengeance. The line currently holds over 15 titles, both new and re-worked, by artists such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Escher and Tiffany, not to mention Christopher Marley’s exquisite creatures design. We also re-worked the mouse mat pricing to fit in better with the UK and European market and have given each mat an individual backing board with some info on the artist / design.

Our Knowledge Card™ range has been expanded once again, with the addition of 7 new titles such as 2 shakes of a lamb’s tail, The Eco quiz deck, and the follow up to our top selling, movie quiz knowledge card deck. Great lines from great movies vol.2 promises to be an instant hit! We’ve taken the ever popular, timeless movie quiz from vol.1, and extended the range of questions to fill a whole new deck.

Further additions have been made to our designer gift-wrap range, making this a quickly expanding, extremely well received range, now containing 13 stunning designs. We also offer a free dump bin display unit on orders of 72+ rolls. The recent Frank Lloyd Wright additions from the last launch have now been adapted into gift tags, which will be available as a set, and fit perfectly with the rest of the designer gift-wrap range.

Almost all ranges have been expanded in this launch, new notecards, postcards, bookmarks, address books, jigsaw puzzles, notecard folios, Sierra Club nature photography products and much much more can be found throughout the launch.

Full listing and images to follow.... (Images are en route from our US office)

Gorey...

Keep your eyes peeled!

Just a quick update, we've received details of our May launch and there will be some great new products coming soon!

A nice list of new Giftwrap designs - increasing our designer giftwrap range yet again.

Ever seen our "Sacred Journey" diary? - We'll be launching soon a boxed gift set of Sacred Journey cards, which are tipped to be a new best seller.

We're even expanding our often overlooked mousemat range with 16 new designs!

The launch is also full of new notecards, postcards, Knowledge cards, Jigsaws and much much more.


More info and images to follow shortly!

Quiz Answer 3.

Virginia Woolf (English, 1882 - 1941)
The daughter of renowned literary critic Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf grew up surrounded by such influential Victorian authors as Henry James, Lord Alfred Tennyson, and George Eliot, so it is not surprising that she, too, tried her hand at writing, to great success. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, a writer and together they founded Hogart Press, which would later publish works by T.S. Eliot, Maxim Gorky, and E.M. Forster.

Woolf has been hailed as a leading innovator of modernist fiction due to her experimental work with stream of consciousness and fractured narrative in her novels, most notably Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Her famous essay "a room of one's own" remains one of the most important texts of contemporary feminism.

From childhood, Woolf suffered from periods of severe depression, and in 1941 she drowned herself after writing a note to her husband-"I feel certain that I am going mad again: I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times... I can't fight it any longer."

Quiz Question 3.

Quiz Question 3.

This feminist essayist was a pioneer of the modern novel.

Who was she?

Any guesses? - danielr@pomeurope.co.uk

Quiz Answer 2.

Answer 2.

Emily Bront

One of a trio of sisters famous for their literary talents, Emily Brontë authored just one novel during her short life, but it has since become a classic of English literature. The fifth of six children, she grew up on the lonely moors of Yorkshire, where her father was the rector. After the death of their mother in 1821, the children entertained themselves by imagining fantasy worlds and writing down their creations in notebooks.

Educated mostly at home, Emily worked as a governess and flirted with the idea of opening a school, going as far as Brussels to study languages and school management, but she eventually dropped her plans. Her younger sister Anne discovered a book of verse Emily had written and convinced her sisters to publish a book of poetry. This led each sister to her own novelistic pursuits, resulting in Emily's haunting tale of love and revenge, Wuthering Heights, published in 1847. Only thirty years old, Emily died of tuberculosis the next year.

Quiz Question 2. - Happy Easter!

Happy Easter Everyone! - Hope you enjoy the long weekend.

We're bringing the quiz to you early this week as tomorrow is Good Friday. We'll be back in the office on Tuesday, and the answer to this rather taxing question will be posted Friday 13th.

You'll be please to know that we're adding prizes to this quiz! The first person to email the correct answer to Danielr@pomeurope.co.uk will win one of our top 10 knowledge card decks.

This week, the deck up for grabs is "The Queens English: A smattering of seemingly nonsensical British words and phrases"


So here's the question, good luck....

Question 2.

Unlike her more prolific sisters, this writer published only one novel.
Who was she?

Answer to question 1.

Jane Austen (English, 1775 - 1817)

Today one of the most celebrated writers of the Western canon, Jane Austen published her novels anonymously to avoid the tarnished reputation of a woman writer. The seventh of eight children, Austen was born in Hampshire, England, and spent most of her life close to home. She began writing as a child to amuse herself and her family. Known for their perfect form, her books - including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, and Mansfield Park - Infuse everyday, commonplace events with humor, irony, and drama. Her heroines are bright, moral young women who struggle for love and happiness in a society where men inherit familial wealth and marriage determines social status.

Though her characters ultimately achieve satisfaction, Austen - who never married - was no true romantic: "I could not seriously sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life."

Quiz Time!

Over the coming weeks I will be posting a series of questions and answers from some of the great titles in our Knowledge card range.

This first set of questions are from our "Who was she? Noteable Women in Literature" quiz deck. The deck contains 48 cards, each packed with bite-sized info and trivia in a question and answer format.

I'll post the first question now, and the answer in a weeks time. Good luck!

Question 1.

Who was she?
"Writing was considered an unladylike endeavor at the turn of the nineteenth century, so this observer of social conventions wrote on small pieces of paper that could quickly be hidden under a blotter when guests visited."

We wish you a merry.....

OK, so it's not quite Christmas yet!

Nevertheless, the brand new Pomegranate Christmas Catalogue is almost ready.

Christmas 2006 was the first that the UK and Europe had seen of the Pomegranate Christmas range for some time. The stunning, festive cards are back again this year and from the look of the current interest, they will indeed be here to stay! That’s not surprising when you see the catalogue. Many of Pomegranate’s top artists can be found with a festive twist in the Christmas range. From Kliban’s Cats playing festive games and trying to stay warm, to Edward Gorey’s darker views on Christmas, Santa, and the festive period.

However, the Christmas range is not only about our acclaimed artist’s work. We also publish a huge selection of Christmas cards featuring beautiful photography of the natural world at Christmas and the amazing animals within it, in association with Sierra Club. You’ll find Penguins, Polar Bears and Arctic Foxes, all posing for these stunning images, which can all be found in the back of the catalogue. A portion of the proceeds from all Sierra Club sales goes towards preserving and protecting the planet.


Christmas card catalogues will be available from April onwards, and we are always happy to take advanced orders in preparation for Christmas. We offer the individual cards either as singles (in cellophane bag, with envelope) or in boxes of 12 with envelopes.

2008 Calendars

2006 has just finished and we’re already raring to go with our superb 2008 calendar range. This year there have been loads of additions, some great new titles and even a whole new format!

Our new format is our Postcard planner. Imagine a pocket / handbag diary, page per week, month grids throughout, then between each week slot a charming detachable postcard featuring the works of Edward Gorey, Robert Crumb or Charles Addams. This is a promising range that will undoubtedly be expanded next year.

We have three stunning new wall calendars, published in cooperation with the “Sacred” exhibition at the British Library (April – September 2007). The Sacred collection will include three calendars, one on each the Torah, the Qur’an and the Bible. These calendars focus on not only the words that these sacred documents hold, but also the decoration and typography of their worshipped pages.

We’ve added some beautiful new fine art titles, most notably the new wall calendar from Arthur Rackham. Known for his illustrations in such children’s classics as “wind in the willows” and “Alice in wonderland,” Rackham’s fantasy illustrations have been cherished by many generations of children and adults alike.

There will be a great selection of speciality format calendars for 2008,these are mostly specialist titles that for the right person will be totally essential. For example our Yoga planner is perfect for any Yoga practitioner and student, even a complete beginner will find the tips, positions and suggestions in this diary, a great way to get into Yoga.

2008 will also see first editions of our P+ Business planner, Jewish Woman’s planner and the busy parents planner. These new titles can be found alongside last year’s favourites like the Herbal Journal and the Ecological Diary.

We will have 2008 Calendar catalogues by the beginning of March, if you would like a copy please let us know.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. Now, it's time to get back to work!

Here at Pomegranate Europe, we're jumping straight into 2007 with a superb new paper product launch. Containing some great new artists and new products by great old ones we'll help kick start your 2007 gift range.

New to Pomegranate is acclaimed feminist artist and sculptor, Judy Chicago. Made famous by her thought provoking exhibit celebrating thousands of influential women, "The Dinner party." Judy Chicago has blazed a trail for both female artists and woman’s rights since she arrived on the scene back in the 70's.

We are publishing a series of products on Judy and her work, starting in this launch with two boxed postcard sets. One showing plate designs and one Banners from "The Dinner Party." Our Judy Chicago products are published in co-operation with The Feminist art program of the university of California, an organization founded by Judy.

There are plenty of new artists in this release, a lot of which will also feature in our 2008 calendar range. (More on that later) New artists include, Arthur Rackham, Elias Rivera, Jasper Johns and Koo Schadler to mention a few, plus additions from old favourites like M.C. Escher, Robert Crumb, Pissarro and Tom Thomson.

After enormous success in the last 12 months we've expanded our designer gift-wrap range. We've added 5 new titles, each taken from one of Frank Lloyd Wright's exquisite designs for glass, fabric, and wall decoration. These are all stunning, vivid designs, and need to be seen to be appreciated. Please don't hesitate to request some samples.

We have four new jigsaw puzzles entering the range this month. Featuring artwork by Monet, Baumann, Frank Lloyd Wright and Jonathan Green. Just like the rest of our Jigsaw range these are large 1000 piece puzzles, each printed with the highest quality reproductions of fine artworks from past and present.

For the quizmasters out there we have added to our best selling Knowledge Card™ range some great new titles. Including Shakespeare's Quips, Cusses and Curses, What do you know about Wine? and Great Buildings of London. Our Knowledge card™ range covers such a wide variety of subjects that it's hard not to find something that will keep you entertained as either a quiz deck or even as a solitary read.

If you would like a full launch list, any information, samples, images or catalogues, please don't hesitate to contact us.

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