Penguin Ink luxury letterpress cards and homewares, designed by Lizzie Parker. Originally from Suffolk, Lizzie is a professional Graphic Designer based in Bristol with her husband and family. Penguin Ink was launched in 2015 whilst Lizzie was on Maternity leave with her eldest child Flo. Lizzie had the time to play and create some design work just for her. Lizzie showed it to a local shop and I got such a wonderful reaction, the first collection was created.
Lizzie is inspired by nature, animals and the environment around her designing from her beautiful garden studio. Over the years lots of Lizzie’s and friends' pets have inspired some of our best selling designs. Lizzie's designs are striking and simple using just one or two colours to depict the shadows, highlights of the form, using simple lines and shapes creating a lovely texture on the cards. Using a limited colour palette our cards sit beautifully together across the collections.
Our cards are traditionally pressed by lovely local family printers. Letterpress is a beautiful technique, using gorgeous old machines, it is a true craft. We love our printers and get excited to see new designs come to life.
Penguin Inks homeware range, takes our best selling card designs and creates quality products that will last and you’ll love to use for years to come. Our ceramic ranges are screen printed and hand decorated in the heart of the potteries in Stoke on Trent. Alongside our kitchen textiles and coasters which are all made in the UK.
Address
Penguin Ink2 Glendale
Bristol
BS16 6EQ
United Kingdom