Grain at Poketo

We're loving the new photos of Poketo's spring collection of artist tees and dresses paired with our jewelry which you can also find in their online shop.

New Bound and Chi-Chi Colors/Sizes!

Above is our new Bound all natural hand mirror. We made three of these for Bird several weeks ago on special order and liked them so much that we decided to add them to our online shop.

Above and in the two below images are our new Chi-Chi, Fat Strand necklaces (modeled nicely below by our intern Claire) that we are now offering in yellow and green. They are $36.00 and can be found in our online shop.

And finally, we now have Chi-Chi, 3 Strand Yellow necklaces. We originally made these on special order for The Whitney Museum Store and now they are available in our online shop as well.

New Shops!!

We have officially shipped out all our orders from the New York International Gift Fair! Here are a selection of the new shops that will be carrying Grain products:

Lola

Berkley, CA

Spartan

Austin, TX

The Future Perfect

Brooklyn, NY

Guggenheim Museum Store

New York, NY

Ideal

Bellingham, WA

Contemporary Arts Museum Shop

Houston, TX

Stonehouse

St Charles, IL

Sustainable NYC

New York, NY

Lake

Los Angeles, CA

Bird

Brooklyn, NY

Good

Boston, MA

SFMOMA Museum Store

San Francisco, CA

For a full list email shop [at] graindesign.com.

Café America in Chicago!

Café America is now available through Buckingham Interiors + Design in Chicago. The following photos are from their June 18th opening party. More pics from the opening can be found here.

Exclusive Ty in UncommonGoods catalog!

We put together an exclusive Ty D.I.Y. Edition kit for the Summer UncommomGooods catalog and it is finally out. The kit includes all three marker colors so you can create designs like the one below. Check out the full catalog here.

Electric Love is here!!

Electric Love, our new hand-knotted rings (above and below) are made of reclaimed electrical wire and come in pink or white with more colors on the way. Each ring is handmade with love in our studio on Bainbridge Island. Visit the Grain Shop for more info!

Sololá is here!!

In 2006, while still students at RISD, James, Brit and I were part of an amazing wintersession course taught by Mimi Robinson called Bridging Cultures Through Design. Working with artisan communities in Guatemala, we developed a series of textiles goods celebrating Guatemalan textile traditions. The products went to market and continue to support sustainable incomes for those artisan groups that we collaborated with.

We are excited to now be offering one of the designs from that collaboration, called Sololá, in the Grain Shop! Here is the official description:

Sololá celebrates the artistry of Guatemalan women weavers. Each purse upcycles a vintage huipil (traditional women's blouse woven on the backstrap loom) to create an individual statement. Turned inside-out, the huipils are an explosion of color and handwork. Each purse is assembled by Guatemalan artisans in Antigua from textiles sourced at the famous Chichicastenango Market.

Sololá will be available in two sizes at $38 and $60. Each purse is made in Antigua, Guatemala and is totally unique.

More places to find Ty in 2010...

Ty D.I.Y. Edition will soon be available at the following new retailers throughout the US and Canada:

Green Depot
Green Depot is the nation's largest green building supplier. Ty and Ty D.I.Y. Edition will be soon be available through their website and in their LIVE store in Manhattan on Bowery (between Spring and Prince).

Carbon Environmental Boutique

Our first Canadian retailer is located in the historic heart of downtown Edmonton, Alberta. Carbon’s mission is threefold – to showcase and support environmental manufacture, to encourage and fortify ethical business practices and to advocate and promote non-toxic living.

Annie's Blue Ribbon General Store
A modern general store for a well-lived life, combining the charm of a country general store with the sophistication of a modern city lifestyle in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.

MCA Denver Shop

Founded in 1996, MCA Denver became the city's first contemporary art museum. Two years ago David Adjaye designed it's new LEED GOLD Certified home in lower downtown. As of last week, you can find Ty D.I.Y. Edition's in their great museum shop.

risd|works

Located in Providence, every item featured is designed and made by Rhode Island School of Design alumni and faculty. All profits from risd|works sales are returned to RISD for use in furthering its mission.

Ty at Perch in San Francisco!

We shipped off a box full of Ty's to Perch in the Glen Park neighborhood of San Francisco this morning! Perch will be our first retailer in San Francisco (first in California, actually) so we are super excited. Perch is "focused on an eclectic mix of modern and vintage products," which actually includes one other Bainbridge Island artist, Susan Najarian.

If you are in San Francisco, Perch is on Chenery Street between Castro and Diamond. Otherwise, you can visit their website here.

Ty at Bitters Co. in Seattle!

We are super excited to announce that our Ty Recyclable Shower Curtains are finally available for purchase in Seattle!!!

You can get your fix at Bitters Co. in Fremont. We have been long time fans of this eclectic general store. If you don't know it, you should. Everything is designed by the owners, Katie and Amy Carson or sourced directly from artisans. The Carson sisters have backgrounds in cultural anthropology, art and furniture design. They initially started the store to sell things they collected from their travels.

Some of our favorites are the flip-flop doormats, Guatemalan textile hand towels, and Amy Carson designed folding tables.

Read more about Bitter Co. on Apartment Therapy here or visit their website here. Above photo of the storefront from here.