Smells Like A Unique Idea. Blue & Blooms Prints On Fresh Flowers.

This certainly smells interesting. Blue & Blooms of the UK has patented a way to transfer original artwork with metallic or opaque inks on fresh flowers. The result is a unique way to communicate your corporate brand at various events or to commemorate such special occasions as weddings.




Whether you want a personal message, monogram or a brand logo, you simple send the company a black and white file ( jpeg, eps or ai file at 300 dpi) of your art and they delicately print them upon the petals of flowers with an organic dye which has no adverse effect on the flowers.




Your printed flowers can be a single rose, added to bouquets, made into corsages or boutonnieres, and/or used as scatter petals. With a one time set up fee and a three day turnaround, they make it pretty darn easy.



In addition to the printing on flowers, Blue and Blooms has beautiful floral arrangements (like those shown below) for corporate, personal, wedding and events. Their online store is not yet open, but will be coming soon.



Blue and Blooms Studio
38 Garden Close
London
UB5 5ND
For sales queries please contact them at +44(0)7961 066 707.

Special thanks to Advertising Age where I first heard about this.

Fun With Flowers: Bloom My Buddy

Bloom my Buddy
Designers Niels Van Eijk & Miriam Van der Lubbe have created these fun and fabulous flower vases. They have a reservoir in which to hold the water and various holes so you can design your 'boy' or 'girl' in infinite floral dress. Created in a large and a small size, they were initially commissioned by the Flower Council of Holland.

The two sizes in comparison:


The smaller one measures 45 cm ( or 17.75"H) , is made of rotation moulded polyethylene and has 98 holes. The larger version measures 120 cm, is made of hand laminated polyester and has 298 holes.


Take a look at some of the fun examples of how these vases can turn your flora into little characters.








Bloom My Buddy

You can purchase the small sized for $199.00 USD here.

About the designers:

Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe

from their site:
“Our designs raise questions; we work with forms and products we all know, we add benefits to them to make it nowadays products without loosing their own characteristics. They make you change your perspective to things, and challenge you to look at another way to the world around you.”

Graduated at the Design Academy and the post graduate programme of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Started their design studio in 1998. They work individually but share one studio. Often they collaborate in projects. They focus on product, interior and exhibition design.

Work has been exhibited worldwide and purchased by many museums such as Museum Boymans van Beuningen Rotterdam, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Dutch Textile Museum Tilburg, Manchester City Art Gallery, WOCEF Korea, Museum FIT New York and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Clients include; European Ceramic Workcentre, Rosenthal, Droog Design, Habitat, Premsela Dutch Design Foundation, Dutch Textile Museum, Moooi, Flower Council of Holland. They teach product design at various academies at the Design Academy Eindhoven.

De Raadstraat 28K
5666 EA Geldrop
The Netherlands
Phone *31 (0) 40-2868636
www.ons-adres.nl