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Birmingham, United Kingdom
Lov Li is a design studio founded by Rachel Taylor and Beth White, creating prints and surface patterns. Clients include...Paperchase, Harrods, WH Smiths, The Art Group, Habitat. The Lov Li brand is a hub for new young UK design talent and we work with some of the best illustrators and designers to create trend led greeting cards and journals.

Thursday 27 January 2011

come to the POP-UP GALLERY launch night at Zellig Custard Factory

BlowCreates is a newly formed PR and marketing company promoting new and young creatives from across the UK.

 

They are opening their first POP-UP Gallery and would like to invite you to the launch night

 

On Friday 28th January 

(6pm – 10pm)

 

@ BlowCreates Pop-Up Gallery 

Zellig 

The Custard Factory 

Digbeth 

Birmingham

 

There will be a wide variety of work exhibited from illustration, fashion, fine art, photography and more.

 

Alongside this Joel Millerchip, a widely known artist will be creating a life size illustration on the gallery walls throughout the evening.

 

It will be an enjoyable evening for everyone, with complimentary drinks and live music.

 

Come down and support young creatives from around the country, and possibly even make a purchase!

 

To find out more about BlowCreates, please visit us on 

 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/BlowCreates/171665359534286

 

http://blowcreates.tumblr.com/

 

Monday 24 January 2011

We ♥ the ASOS Revive collection

ASOS is by far the best affordable online fashion store and their latest vintage inspired, Revive collection is looking great..most of it is on sale too - check it out.

We are going for this satin panelled dress

and this Cooper & Stollbrand for ASOS Checked Cape, reduced from £200 to £100

we're loving Anna Viktorsson's London prints for Ary Trays

trays can be stylish too!

 

Ary Trays have some amazing designs and have been manufacturing birch wood trays at the original site in Sweden for over 50 years. 

 

 

Friday 21 January 2011

Red Sky at night, Friday night delight.....

a view from our studio this fine evening, hope all you peeps have a great weekend, as we plan to!

Wednesday 19 January 2011

wey hey...a box of Lov Li card samples

We just received this box of our Lov Li card samples which are under license with Claypso Cards in the US

Valentines, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Easter.... our favorite is the octopus...girlfriend you tickle my fancy... soo SWEET!!!!

be my Lov Li Valentine....

can we have these please.... Stella McCartney 'be my Valentine' embroidered cotton and silk-blend briefs

£35 from net-a-porter.com

Tuesday 18 January 2011

Lov Li Valentines and Mother's day cards 2011

We are heading down to the opening of art exhibition 'I am Human' this evening

 

a note on copyright: http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/

As designers, it is no surprise that other designers and the High Street stores copy ideas from us. There is a difference between mildly being influenced by something you have seen and blatant copying. Last year Lov Li discovered a "designer" had taken images of our owls and birds from the internet and reproduced them onto mugs, T shirts, greeting cards baby grows etc. They were selling them on an online store called www.zazzle.co.uk. The funny thing was, that they had used canvas images which happened to have Rachel Taylor's signature on the bottom corner..this person obviously didn't notice. The quality was also so bad as they were quite low res internet images! Luckily a threat with court action made them remove the products but the person still had made money out of our designs.

Designer  and friend of Lov Li Gemma Correll also has had here images copied by big names such as GAP and is deeply frustrated by this ongoing problem. See here blog http://gemma-correll.blogspot.com/2011/01/pride-and-plagarism.html

She says,  "I feel like I'm at the bottom of a design-foodchain (along with all the other illustrators and artists that this has happened to) when we're the ones thinking of the ideas, only for the bigger companies to steal them and make their own crappy versions. We make pennies, they make billions. It isn't fair. "

 

See the website http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/ to see more shocking examples

Friday 14 January 2011

Lov Li Valentines and Mother's day cards

We have a few new mother's day and valentines cards added for 2011

check out our website www.lovlidesign.com for our full collection of fabulous greeting cards

Lov Li work in progress.....

Monday 10 January 2011

sneak peek, new designs for Xmas 2012!

Christmas may be over but we are already working on Christmas 2012.... 

Friday 7 January 2011

Its good to be back.....Have a Lov Li New Year all!

we are sooo happy back at work in the studio, feeling inspired after the Xmas break

 

Thursday 6 January 2011

Lov Li cards spotted in WH Smiths....

These Art Group greeting cards, designed exclusively by Rachel Taylor / Lov Li have been recently spotted in WH Smiths stores

Below are more examples of just some of the greeting cards Lov Li have been commissioned to create, for The Art Group, Paperchase, Zest to name but few...

Wednesday 5 January 2011

send Lov Li Xmas thank you cards from James Ellis Stevens

Thank your friends and family for your Christmas pressies, with these sweet Thank you cards, designed by Lov Li's Rachel Taylor -available to buy from James Ellis Stevens

They come in a pack of 8 flat cards and envelopes

Also available from James Ellis Stevens online shop, is this scary stand up spider kids Birthday card, also designed by Rachel Taylor @ Lov Li, priced at £1.80 each