IT'S RAINING SO BELIEVE US ....

YOU'LL NEED THESE!

Raining today and possibly into August and the kids are off school. Mums everywhere will be going nuts and looking for something [anything] for the kids to do, to be occupied by - and we have the answer.

NEW - the Pomegranate range of Colouring Books.

Pomegranate's new colouring books will delight all Picassos-in-training! Each title offers ready-to-colour outlines of well-known artworks, along with a brief story about the featured art or artist and small reproductions of the original works.

14 titles to choose from and prices range from £4.99 to £6.50. They are here, they are fab. Contact us now for sample covers, more details and our illustrated leaflet showing the full range.

Pomegranate's range is growing and growing

Want to know where to find all the great new additions to the Pomegranate range? Well look no further, our Brand new speciality Publications catalogue is out now!

Within the catalogue you'll find all of our superb Puzzles, Designer Gift Wrap, Journals and Address books, our Brand New range of Notepads and much much more.

Simply hit the "Download our Catalogues" link on the bar on the right and get your very own PDF copy. Alternatively you can drop us an email at: sales@pomeurope.co.uk and we'll happily send you a hard copy.

WE KNOW IT'S SUMMER BUT ....

.....it's also time to buy your Christmas cards and if you want something really different this year, contact us for our Christmas card catalogue. We have boxes of 20 [5 each of 4 designs] and you can also choose a design and have it made up in a box of 12 AND you can also buy from our single Christmas card range.

Amongst our artists we have Frank Lloyd Wright, Edward Gorey, Hiroshige and some very cool, retro cards from Charley Harper [below]:-

Call us now on 01926 401402, or email sales@pomeurope.co.uk and we'll pop a catalogue off to you First Class.

Progressive Greetings Live 09!

Congrats to the Progressive Greetings crew for pulling off a very pleasant 2 days show in sunny Kensington. Pomegranate enjoyed themselves and went away with a nice book of leads. The icing would have been to have a few more International leads in that book but as this is the only gripe, it was worth the time.











Congrats also to Lucie Pattinson from the Bookhouse in Thame who won a £50 Marks & Spencer Voucher in the Pomegranate Caption Competition, see her winning caption below.



With reference to recent MP's expenses claim: ''I'm putting my hands up to claiming for the Floating Duck House'

POMEGRANATE RIGHT ON THE BUTTON .. with the big dilemma of the day:-

WHY WE NEED BEES,BEETLES,URCHINS AND WORMS
Knowledge Card Deck




We need those Bees and find out why in this deck of 48 Knowledge Cards.

Most of us think about the smallest denizens of the planet—the invertebrates—only when our houses are invaded by ants, or a bee buzzes by, or we discover a crab in a tide pool. But these organisms play integral roles in the biosphere we call home. Do you know which crustacean protects our salt marshes? Which beetle cattle ranchers rely on? Could a common mollusk help your dentist one day? Noted zoologist and author Frank Indiviglio knows a lot about the world’s smallest inhabitants and brings his expertise to bear in the 48 cards of this jam-packed quiz deck, letting us know just how and why all of our diminutive neighbors are so important.

GREAT FOR KIDS, well, everyone really ..... £5.95 and Available Now!

Progressive Greeting Live! Caption Competition

There is definitely a 'buzz' about this new Show and we at Pom want to enter into the spirit of it so we have a Caption Competition where you can win a £50 Marks & Spencer Voucher. Just pop onto our stand [No 236], put a caption to the photo below and Jaqueline and Warren from Progressive Greetings will pick a winner! See you there.

PRODUCT OF THE WEEK!

CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH Mini Wall Calendar

A prominent proponent of the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements, Glasgow architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) employed a holistic approach to his designs for architectural interiors and the objects that adorned them, with each detail thought out in support of the whole. The twelve images adapted for reproduction in this calendar—selected from chair designs, mosaic panels, leaded glass, textiles, and more—attest to the timeless appeal of Mackintosh’s artistic vision.

Size: 7 x 7 in.; opens to 7 x 14 in. ISBN 978-0-7649-4790-2.

Order now from Pomegranate Europe along with over 140 other calendars & diaries.

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ELEGANT ENIGMAS The Art of Edward Gorey

Spent the weekend reading our new book 'Elegant Enigmas The Art of Edward Gorey'. What a treat this is from the small, lone girl in the right hand corner of the first page to the strange creature with man and coat on the end page.

 

By all appearances the world according to Edward Gorey (1925–2000) is a deeply troubling place. Dire plots filled with hapless victims and shadowy villains unfold on the eternally crepuscular stage created by Gorey’s exquisite, crosshatched ink drawings. Doom is always waiting in the wings. Yet despite its foreboding nature, this world is surprisingly inviting. Depictions of the demise of innocent children elicit laughter; clever couplets relating tales of mayhem are somehow delightful. One cannot help but feel uneasy about having so much fun perusing Gorey’s dark scenarios.

In Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey, more than 175 reproductions offer a rich review of his work, including samples from his own books, illustrations produced for other writers, theatrical sets and costume designs, and a wealth of individual pieces, many never before published. Sketches, typewritten manuscripts, doodles, and musings join the generous selection of finished works, which include his trademark finely detailed ink drawings and watercolors.
The text by Karen Wilkin, an expert on Gorey’s work and a friend of the artist, offers an intimate review of his career, with insights that provide a fresh understanding of Gorey’s life and art.

It's hardback with 124 pages and retails at £17.95. I guarantee you will re-visit this book many times! ISBN978-0-7649-4804-6

"The helpful thought for which you look

Is written somewhere in a book"

Elegant Enigmas The Art of Edward Gorey

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Happy New Year 2009

However you divide 2010, the answer is Pomegranate. With over 150 titles over 8 established formats and covering Architecture & Design, Artful Humour, Language, Food & Wine, History, Science and Music – to name a few categories, our 2010 portfolio will please all tastes.

With our allegiance to high quality art reproduction always being our dominating factor, our strength is also the diverse range of subject matter we offer. In 2010 you will find all the mainstay titles, Rothko, Hopper, Tiffany, Mackintosh etc., with new additions of C.F.A. Voysey Designs, Voysey was a prominent designer and architect in the Arts & Crafts Movement and this calendar has been done with the Royal Institute of British Architecture.

Another newcomer is legendary photographer and painter Man Ray, one of the most versatile and inventive artists of the 20th century and Pomegranate presents 12 of his most intriguing black & white photographs.

World art offers the most astonishing images from around the globe and here Pomegranate have a bold array of titles including African American art, Inuit Art. Mayan art in our ever-popular Colours Of Guatemala and stunning plates in Aboriginal Art. Asian art has long been one of our strongest areas of sales and this seems to be continuing so we are delighted to offer titles featuring Hiroshige, Hokusai Chao Shao-an and a brand new title on the Samurai.

In today’s volatile market calendars seem to be both a sales constant and ‘must have’ on the Christmas Shopping list. They signify a new start and in it’s simplest form – a package of informative dates, a space to write your own thoughts and agendas all thrown in with some beautiful art – a unique and in some cases, an expected gift. So it’s good that we can offer formats to suit all tastes and living spaces.

From 365 Tear-Off padblocks such as Shakespeare’s Insults and What Do You Know About Wine to our elegant, Deluxe desk diaries; Georgia O’Keefe and Impressionism. Walls can be decorated with our standard wall calendars or a great range of Mini Walls like CatCalendar by Kliban and Covering Jazz.

Pomegranates big, beautiful new book

PHEROMONE

The Insect Artwork of Christopher Marley

Available Now!

This truly beautiful book presents the compositions of Christopher Marley: assemblages of real insect bodies that display brilliant colour and otherworldly form. The colours are entirely natural, and to render the reproductions as accurate as possible some have been reproduced with fifth-colour metallic inks and highlighted with spot varnish.

Accompanying the broad sample of Marley’s work is a series of essays by the artist:

· Design of Insects

· Insects in Design

· History

· Colour

· The Coleoptera Mosaics: An Exercise in Colour

· Repetition

· Structure

· Texture

· Variations

· Botanicals

· Size

· Environmental Effects

Christopher Marley was born in Covina, California, and grew up near Salem, Oregon. At 19 years old, he began his travels while serving as a missionary for two years in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Upon his return, he balanced studying design at Brigham Young University with extended sabbaticals to work both on and off camera for scores of fashion brands such as Donna Karan, Gucci, and Giorgio Armani.

Over more than a decade, his assignments to dozens of countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas spawned a passionate drive to share the unending variety of surprising natural artefacts with an unsuspecting public through his artwork. In addition to insects, his mediums of design include fossils, minerals, botanicals, bones, and sea life. His work has been featured in numerous magazines and is sold through hundreds of galleries, stores, and showrooms around the World.

UK RRP: £39.95

Dimensions: H 31cm x W 24.5cm x D 3.1cm

256 Pages – 170+ Colour Photographs

Hardback with Dust Jacket

ISBN: 978-0-7649-4619-6

Pomegranate Product Code: A149

To learn more about the artist visit: www.formandpheromone.com

For more info on our extensive Christopher Marley range visit: www.pomegranate.com

Welcome to 2008

Pomegranate celebrates its 40^th year in 2008, with an abundance of stationery and gift products to appeal to all.

Our January launch offers more from some of our firm favourites, along with eye-catching new lines that include boxed thank you notes and exquisite panoramic folios.

Our allegiance to quality and production continues to offer excellent value plus a dynamic visual impact in retail outlets, mail order catalogues and on-line stores. We are continuing to offer the most flexible Calendar buying terms available in order to make the seasonal range as little of a risk as possible.

Our established calendar and diary range has opened new sales avenues, so why not come along and see what we can provide you with for 2009. We’ll be at the SPRING FAIR as always, you’ll find us in Hall 3, stand P11.

Products available range from notecards, bookmarks, leather journals and address books to mouse mats (no mice included), fine art jigsaws, pocket notebooks and our successful knowledge card range™.

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)