Jenn Playford will be exhibiting her work at SURTEX 2008. SURTEX is an annual show for selling and licensing art and design. It features over 400 exhibitors, including top artists, designers, studios and licensing firms in the following industries: decorative fabrics, linens and domestics, contract textiles, wall coverings, floor coverings, apparel textiles, stationery, greeting cards, giftwrap and other paper products, tabletop, giftware, housewares, toys, ceramics, packaging and publishing.

The show runs from Sunday, May 18th to Tuesday, May 20th at Javits Convention Centre in New York City.

Stop by booth #702 in the River Pavillion to see Jenn’s work.

SURTEX 2008

Jenn Playford’s illustrations for Jenny Wren Paperie were featured in the April issue of Canadian Style At Home magazine. The magazine featured her stationery, gold-flecked cards and re-usable giftwrap, Furochic.

Jenn Playford, along with three other Magnet artists, was featured in Taiwan’s dpi magazine. She had a two-page spread in their recent Design Stars Boulevard issue. Thanks dpi!

dpi magazine

Jenn Playford’s patterns are featured in the April 2008 issue of Canadian Home & Country magazine.

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Jenn Playford’s cloth gift wrap, Furochic, was featured on Global TV’s morning news on Tuesday, January 5th and again on City TV’s City Line on Tuesday, January 22nd. Furochic is a stylish and environmentally-friendly alternative to paper. It is based on Furoshiki, a square cloth traditionally used in Japan to wrap shopping purchases and embellish important gifts. It is made out of 100% cotton and can be turned into a no-sew handbag, pillow covering, scarf, patchwork quilt or used to re-wrap another gift.

Furochic is available at Great Canadian Superstore locations and online at jennywrenpaperie.com.

Jennifer Playford is featured in the Fall 2007 book Pattern Design: Applications and Variations published by Mao Mao Publications of Barcelona, Spain. Pattern has been going through an important revival in the past few years and this book will be a 288 page compilation of recent projects which rely on, or include, pattern design. The book features well established and novel designers and companies such as Karim Rashid, Helen Amy Murray, Marcel Wanders, Sukie, JB Classics, Bisazza, Demakersvan, Joris Laarman, Mos-Michael Meredith, Dan Funderbergh and Telegramme among others.

The berry pattern Spring Blossoms created for Jenny Wren Paperie and Nova Blooms created for FuroChic are among Jennifer’s published illustrations.

Pattern Design: Applications and Variations will be published in English and Spanish, it will be distributed internationally by Page One (Asia), Rockport (US & Canada), Novedit (France), and Promopress (Spain).

www.rockpub.com

Nova Blooms Bag

Spring Blossoms Album

Spring Blossoms Gift Tag

Jennifer Playford’s card line Jenny Wren Paperie is featured in the October 2007 issue of Flare Magazine. The article, which appeared in the Living - City News section, says “(her) quirky nod to wintertime whimsy will charm every last Scrooge on your mailing list”.

The Big Book of Illustration Ideas 2004 published by Harper Design International features hundreds of illustrations from illustrators around the world. Edited by Roger Walton, the book showcases illustration in easy to navigate categories such as portraits, still life, architecture and abstracts.

Shawn Barber, Gordon Wiebe, Red Nose Studio, Marguerite Sauvage, Jennifer Playford, Graham Roumieu and Ben Shannon all participated in this beautiful resource.

The Big Book of Illustration Ideas

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Alumni

Elephant

Traffic

Turning Stones

Prozac

Unbelievable

Getting Chilly

Big Book