There was a good selection of new gift product at Autumn Fair yesterday with a fair mix of design styles that covered a good variety of retail buyers’ end users.
The show has attracted new exhibitors this year, either as independents or as part of a group. White Pebble, a transatlantic sales and marketing agency founded by international trade show, sales and marketing specialists Adam Ash and Susan Fairley, presented 12 US companies at Autumn Fair. Jasper + Black is part of this group and is launching a collection of new, contemporary, stylish and practical products that fit the gift market. Great colour choice – 
simple solutions from Lulalu.
Golfmission is a proper gift for golfers with a Golf Europe Product Award for Best Training Aid. The company was doing great business yesterday and certainly provides some Christmas buyers with a tidy solution for a male present at this time of year. I know quite a few women who might go for this product as well.
Love Lammie offers bold colour and femininity across a variety of items that are useful with great design. Based in Devon the company offers a non massed produced line with all manufacturing done in the UK. A practically pretty and timeless collection of oilcloth bags, home ware and lifestyle accessories, inspired by vintage living and all things floral. Fantastic quality made British products at really affordable prices.
Bobbins Den introduced Le Faux Patisserie, part of their hand made Gifts and Accessories – all products made in the UK. The company has used a richer and 
deeper color palette for this line – just the right note for Autumn/Winter.
Flock-follies launched bird feeders and playhouses earlier this year for a little and a lot of contemporary British design in the garden. The bird feeders are proving popular countrywide with interesting regional colour choices. Yorkshire has proved to be definitely a fuchsia county for the birds.
Greetings lined up with ever popular Berni Parker’s new additions to her Whispers on Wings range of greetings cards – shown is “To a lovely daughter”. Berni is now an established brand in the marketplace and has been part of the growing trend for individual designers to control their own work and be successful.
New publishers are still entering the trade and adding to an existing wide and seemingly varied 
selection. New to me – Clementine Cummins with “bespoke” photographic Christmas cards. Very sharp, in Nordic traditional cool with non cluttered composition and color palette. Sophie Morrell, modern and most definitely 
rooted in CAD but with good colour, a bit of gentle humour, and a good eye for composition. Their currently seemingly obligatory plain greetings cards are good bold messages veering away from pastels.Images from the top: Lulalu, Golfmission, Love Lammie, Flock-follies, Berni Parker, Clementine Cummins and Sophie Morrell
