I am so excited to share today's Show & Tell with you because it comes from a local artist/blogger/design studio. I originally met Joyce when I stumbled upon her wonderful blog, KidBaltimore, which highlights her trips and travels around Baltimore with her children. She gives great insights into all kinds of activities, museums, events and points of interest in our area, as well as other fun and helpful projects and ideas. Right now her husband Dave is working plans for a treehouse and Joyce shares a recipe for a natural weed killer. Her blog also happens to have what is probably my favorite blog banner of all the blogs I read. 🙂
Not only does Joyce write at KidBaltimore, she and her husband run the Baltimore design studio SpurDesign . AND, they have a wonderful line of modern art prints for children in their shop Presto Bingo.
I asked Joyce to share a bit about Presto Bingo :
My husband, Dave Plunkert, and I have co-owned Spur Design, a Baltimore based design studio, since 1995. We work in a renovated industrial building that gives us enough room for messy art projects. Our three kids (ages 10, 4 and 4) frequently accompany us to work, which can be a little challenging, but is always inspiring.
Dave and I have wanted to create more artwork for kids for a long time, and are currently pursuing some children's book ideas. PrestoBingo, our line of modern art prints, was inspired by our kids, and our love of modern design. We wanted to create a line of artwork that both kids and grownups could enjoy. Dave's robots grew out of his childhood fascination with Japanese toy robots, and is mixed with his appreciation for Futurism. His alien series is more loose and whimsical and was drawn with bleach and black ink on colored paper. My animal series was no doubt influenced by our move out to the country, but I have always loved spending time outside playing in the dirt. They are digital collages, with hand painted and drawn elements mixed in. I also use snippets from nature, like leaf or bark textures to give them a more tactile quality.
All of the illustrations are reproduced on 100% cotton paper and are limited editions.
Joyce would like to offer one mommycoddle reader a matted, limited edition print from their PrestoBingo shop! So take a few moments to head over to Presto Bingo and look around. Let us know what catches your eye. Leave a comment, and I'll announce the random winner on Monday.
Thank you Joyce and Dave!
Happy Weekend, friends.
I am so excited to share today's Show & Tell with you because it comes from a local artist/blogger/design studio. I originally met Joyce when I stumbled upon her wonderful blog, KidBaltimore, which highlights her trips and travels around Baltimore with her children. She gives great insights into all kinds of activities, museums, events and points of interest in our area, as well as other fun and helpful projects and ideas. Right now her husband Dave is working plans for a treehouse and Joyce shares a recipe for a natural weed killer. Her blog also happens to have what is probably my favorite blog banner of all the blogs I read. 🙂
Not only does Joyce write at KidBaltimore, she and her husband run the Baltimore design studio SpurDesign . AND, they have a wonderful line of modern art prints for children in their shop Presto Bingo.
I asked Joyce to share a bit about Presto Bingo :
My husband, Dave Plunkert, and I have co-owned Spur Design, a Baltimore based design studio, since 1995. We work in a renovated industrial building that gives us enough room for messy art projects. Our three kids (ages 10, 4 and 4) frequently accompany us to work, which can be a little challenging, but is always inspiring.
Dave and I have wanted to create more artwork for kids for a long time, and are currently pursuing some children's book ideas. PrestoBingo, our line of modern art prints, was inspired by our kids, and our love of modern design. We wanted to create a line of artwork that both kids and grownups could enjoy. Dave's robots grew out of his childhood fascination with Japanese toy robots, and is mixed with his appreciation for Futurism. His alien series is more loose and whimsical and was drawn with bleach and black ink on colored paper. My animal series was no doubt influenced by our move out to the country, but I have always loved spending time outside playing in the dirt. They are digital collages, with hand painted and drawn elements mixed in. I also use snippets from nature, like leaf or bark textures to give them a more tactile quality.
All of the illustrations are reproduced on 100% cotton paper and are limited editions.
Joyce would like to offer one mommycoddle reader a matted, limited edition print from their PrestoBingo shop! So take a few moments to head over to Presto Bingo and look around. Let us know what catches your eye. Leave a comment, and I'll announce the random winner on Monday.
Thank you Joyce and Dave!
Happy Weekend, friends.
Oh Hoppy Day and Bye Bye Birdie are my favs and it would be so sweet to have them in our new home (someday soon!). 🙂
Oh boy, the “flutterby” print would make my daughter’s day! Thanks!
I love the frog and the owls and really, they are all great!
i love the animal print one! my daughter would go crazy over the dogs! beautiful!
That frog print is exactly what I think the fish do every time I go fishing! Very funny.
Oh how cute! I really love “Oh Hoppy Day” but my little girls thought the butterflies were great and would look good in their room 🙂
ADORABLE!! I love them Oh Hoppy Day is definitely my favorite, hands down but any of them would have a place in my home with our two girls and the boy that is on his way.
So many adorable prints, but I kept coming back to the Whooo is There? Lovely!
Scheduled to me a new step-grandmommy come November. We know it’s a boy! I love, love, LOVE the “Whooo is there” print!!! So darn cute.
I LOVE the “Whooo is There?” print! But all of the prints are adorable!
I love the Whooo is there and the Flutterby. My girls just decided to share a room and we’re decorating it with a meadow theme. Either print would look adorable in there! Thanks for offering such a great contest!
WE love Whoooo is There and Snips and Snails. My boy is wild about dogs and my girl is crazy for owls! Perfect. Thanks for the chance! 🙂
“My Girl” is a librarian at, and graduate of, Bryn Mawr College. The owl is their thing. I think she needs a Who’s There? for her office! She too is an artist and admires all things handmade. I still love to tickle the child in her.
Oh all of them are so cute…. How would you choose?… Oh, Hoppy Day would probably have to be it but then those puppies….
Okay. These are fantastic. What catches my eye? Dandy Lion is divine, and ALL of the robots are rocking. My oh my.
I love the animal prints… especially Whoooo is There and Bye Bye Birdie. I just found out that I’m expecting, and I think either print would look perfect in the new nursery! Thanks for introducing such a great company to your readers.
Whoooo is there… it is wonderful!
whooooo is there.so delightful.
Bye Bye Birdie is really cute!Thanks so much for the wonderful giveaway.
Their work has a very retro vibe — I LOVE it!! My favorite print is the Dog dog dog print. My daughter loves dogs. Made me smile when I saw it. 🙂
“Oh Hoppy Day!!”
How Cute!
All the prints are great, but our favorite is the butterfly print (my daughter has a butterfly theme in her bedroom)!
Thanks for the opportunity!
Love Whooo is there?
Actually, love them all. Robots are cool too!
Thanks for the chance.
I love all of them, but especially the birds and the butterflies!
“whoo is there” is wonderful. We are on an owl kick in our house. Or ‘Eddy’ the robot for a friend who is hoping to be expecting (a baby).
if it were about me, then of course, the animals. but it’s never about me– those robots are great.
Why choose one when you can choose 4? Robot Quad 001 is my favorite.
ooh, those are fun! I really like bye bye birdie and I know just the place for it in my house.. 🙂
Very cool! I would love the bird one, but I have a little girl who would LOVE Flutterby. Thanks for hosting!
i am not from Baltimore, but i was captured by Joyce’s blog. i loved the blue dog.have a great weekendtb
Well, I let my little guy look at the options, and he selected “oh hoppy day” and “gus the robot” as the two that he likes the most. I really love the texture in “whooo is there.” Thanks for sharing this blog – it is new to me!
I just Love the Robot Prints!
I love the robots especially! Probably my favorite is the quad 2 with 4 of them at once. I also like the frog fishing as well.
Ooohh, so hard to pick just one favorite. Flutterby would fit in perfectly with my daughter’s room. Also love Whooooo is there. Thanks for the giveaway!
I love all the prints! I am also a huge Owl fan- thanks for the opportunity!
These are great! I love whoo is there in the animal section and Jimmy the robot. Fantastic artwork!!
oooh, they are all great! but i would choose either the fishing frog or the dogs. good stuff!
those are so fabulous! What a fantastic giveaway.
The Flutterby print would be darling in my two girls’ room.
I really like the bye bye birdie print.
I had my 5 year old son take a look and he loves the Kevin robot print! Thanks for the chance to win.
oh gosh. its all adorable.but that dandy lion is just out of this world.
I like the Charlie robot print. so cool!
i love the owls and i think william the robot is precious.
Oh, Dandy Lion would have to be my favorite for my 5-year-old budding herbalist. All of them were lovely though! Cute shop.
they’re all super-cute!my favorites are the dogs, and the robot quads — ack! so awesome.
I personally love the owls, but my 2 year old son would adore “Oh Hoppy Day”. He’s so into fishing right now and loves frogs. Also, he just got his own room so that would look perfect on those bare walls! 🙂
These are wonderful. Love the dandylion one.
All the prints are absolutely awesome, so this was a very tough decision to make. Both Whooo Is There? and Dandy Lion kept drawing my eye, but I think I’ve decided to go with the owls just because they fit our family room decor better.
Wow! So hard to choose just one. . .
But I do think that ” Oh Hoppy Day” would be just right for my little guy. I love that it is the kind of picture where it is so easy to tell a story about it.
Will definitely be crossing my fingers. Thanks for the chance and for introducing us to another small artist.
My son is charmed by owls. Whoooos there? Is perfect!
wow, everything is beautiful, but I particularly love the “bye bye birdie” print!
No doubt… Whooo’s there? is my favorite. Thanks for offering.
The froggie is the cutest! Great giveaway…thanks for coordinating it!
The Flutterby’s are so beautiful. It would look perfect in my daughter’s room. Oh please pick me! 🙂
The robots are my favorite. ‘George’ in particular.
I really like the butterfly and the owl prints, though my son would drool over the robots and aliens.
The owls are VERY cute, but oh, so many choices! ~H
I love “Whooo’s There?” and “Dandy Lion.” They are so whimsical!
Oh…I hope we win! The owls will be perfect in our youngest daughter’s room. Thanks for a great giveaway!
Oooh, I love the robots. They would be PERFECT for our newly-painted guest room.
I love Whoooo is there – reminds me of so many of my children’s books.
I love “Whooo is there” and “Flutterby”. The robots are very cute too, but not so good for my little girl’s room.
I really like the butterfly print and my daughter would love it!!
so cute.