WritersBlok and 65 New Products from Kikkerland

News from our old friends at Kikkerland:

Different Design and a new stationery line WRITERSBLOK are featured in Kikkerland Design's 65 product launch

Kikkerland Design will challenge discriminating buyers with new and sometimes controversial designs at this year's New York International Gift Fair held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, August 16¬-21, 2008. The company whose motto is "Good Design Small Things" is known for taking risks in the consumer products market by supporting innovative designers and their ideas. Cuckoo Clocks that don't cuckoo, a crow bar for opening bottles, a globe without a single country's name on it, passport holders for countries you may not want to visit. This is the kind of stuff Kikkerland makes. Fun, smart, daring.

Kikkerland Design is also introducing a new line of notebooks and stationery items called WRITERSBLOK aimed at encouraging the activity of writing. With the slogan "Writing is Good Exercise" Kikkerland plans to go full circle with a line of new stationery products every season with 2 percent of sales going to literacy programs such as the Brooklyn-based 826NYC, a non-profit organization helping students with their creative and expository writing skills and helping teachers inspire their students to write.

Highlights:

*       Chico Bicalho's new Critter Wind-up the MXYKIKKER, named after the birthplace of the wind-up Critter family, Mxyplyzyk (a NYC design shop in the West Village) and Kikkerland Design.
*       David Dear, designer of the best-selling Kikkerland staple the RainbowMaker presents Kim the Talking Clock inspired by mid-century science fiction.
*       Dutch designer Jan Habraken's Psycho, Shark and Titanic Shower Curtains and Money Laundry bags.

*       Swiss-born designer Thomas Buchheim is the creator of the Cuckoo Deconstructed, a magnetic cuckoo clock that doesn't cuckoo.

*       Chris Collicott's mini chandeliers and new door knob organizers.
*       Jozeph Forakis' pocket size Push Lights and award-winning design Chrome Kitchen Timers.

*       Brooklyn-based David Weeks' new essential bar tool, the Bar Pry, also known as the Crowbar Bottle Opener.

*       Garth Roberts / Group Inc.'s new Blackboard Sticker Frames, adhesive chalkboard sheets with decorative frame designs.

*       French designer Renaud Supiot, aka Reno, presents his Beautiful Earth Magnetic Globe, with a non-political map that declares no boundaries and the dual cartridge Double Pen.
*       A line of comprehensive and playful picture frames alternatives that go beyond the old concepts of the picture frame.

Kikkerland Design, Inc. is one of the world's leading manufacturers of inventive contemporary gifts and stationery items. Kikkerland Design works with designers from around the world to create original products and finds a way to make them affordable. Their ever-changing portfolio of products can be found in over 8,000 stores around the world. Kikkerland Design, Inc. was founded in 1992 by Jan van der Lande.

Visit us at www.kikkerland.com and the new online retail shop www.kikkerlandshop.com

Comments

[Jennifer BB]

I searched the Kikkerland site but didn't actually see the Writersblok books for sale. Do you know when these will be available?

[laura kellner]

Thanks for checking it out! The WRITERSBLOK notebooks will be available in mid October. Stay tuned - more info and news about what we are developing coming soon. Feel free to write us.

[Jennifer BB]

Thanks Laura. These look great and eagerly await the day when they go on sale. I'll keep checking in and look forward to October!

[Sophie Brown]

I think advertisements should be a little bit shorter here.

[Armand]

Its a press release:)

[Laura]

Actually, I am visiting NYC this week, and I saw the WritersBlok all over the Met and the MoMA gift shops.

[Sophie Brown]

It's a catalog:) If it's okay with you though I would never bitch.

[23rdspiral]

really interesting idea and concept behind the notebooks and future plans for the literacy programme. i like.

as the happy recipient of several kikkerland design products i can testify to their random brilliance! - a solar powered machine to turn sunlight into rainbows and scatter them around my living room and a dangling kitchen timer shaped like a cartoon 1 ton weight - simply inspired!