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Holiday Gift Guide: Handmade
We love to buy handmade whenever possible and find that it’s easy when there are so many wonderful handmade products out there! Supporting artists and craftsmen is just one more reason to feel good...
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Bookshelf: ABC3D by Marion Bataille
Over Christmas, I (Carrie) was the lucky recipient of this amazing book, ABC3D from my Aunt and Uncle and I fell in love immediately! It is a designer’s dream, full of witty typography! It’s just...
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Playing with Type book
Look mom, we’ve been published!!!!! Our set of ampersand prints have been featured in the book, Playing with Type by Lara McCormick!!! Ahhhhh. We were literally squealing when we got this in the...
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office accessories
You might remember, a few months ago, we starting leasing our very first studio space! The building has clean, modern lines and beautiful white walls inside. We love everything about it….but of...
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when it comes to decorating your home…
When looking for pieces for your home, we feel like there’s no reason to go conservative! Why not have a little fun with home decor? Ya know, not everything needs to be neutral colors! We say, go bold...
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Ampersand for Red Dirt Shop
We are so excited to announce this exciting partnership with Red Dirt Shop! We couldn’t be more proud to be a small part of the good that Red Dirt Shop is doing in the world. They are a Kansas City...
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8 Days a Week Fabric collection sneak peak
Ahh! We’re so excited to give you a little sneak peak of our second fabric collection, called 8 Days a Week, with Windham Fabrics! We just received a glorious fedex envelope filled with what are...
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Branding for Bloggers
Last Friday we had the pleasure of speaking about Branding for Bloggers at the very first Go Blog Social Conference in Kansas City!! It was a great turnout and we were so thrilled to get to meet some...
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a fashion-loving graphic designer’s dream
For two graphic designers (who met in Typography class), that happen to love fashion as well, this little team-up couldn’t be any more exciting for us. UNIQLO and House Industries have partnered...
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pattern box
We are simply dying to get our hands on this!!! This is the box form of a coffee table book. We want to proudly leave this out for guests to flip through and banter about which is their favorite...
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Panera 2013 Holiday campaign
We’re pretty proud of our city, that goes without saying, and we tend to think that Kansas City has a pretty talented group of creatives all living here right smack in the middle of the country! The...
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we heart kansas city: KC Fashion Week
The Kansas City Fashion Week can rival the best! We’re so proud that such a well put together event happens right here in KC! This year, Morgan & Carrie missed it, but the newest Ampersandee,...
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PATRICK DOOLEY // 2014 AIGA KANSAS CITY FELLOW AWARD
Not everyone is lucky enough to have a professor that makes such a lasting impression on your life, but both of us just happen to be in that category. While attending design school at The University...
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Ampersand for The Land of Nod!!!!
OK…BIGGEST NEWS EVER!!!! Today….we are getting to share the very first sneak peeks into our debut collection with The Land of Nod ! We are PINCHING OURSELVES!!! Seriously, this is such a dream...
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Holiday Pop-up Shop Recap
So many thanks are in order for what we feel was a wildly successful Pop-up on Thursday!! A giant shout-out to all the amazing KC shops that participated and wowed shoppers with their lovely products:...
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We’re taking over The Land of Nod today!!
There are a few companies out there that we have dreamed of partnering with. The type of companies that think the same way we do. The kind that create high quality products that are well designed,...
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BOOM! The Land of Nod Spring catalog is here!
The Land of Nod Spring 2015 catalog should’ve arrived on your doorstep by now and we have flipped through ours approximately 5,783,154 times discovering the AH-mazing styling and beautiful photos of...
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Behind the scenes of #AmpersandforNod
The day the Spring 2015 Land of Nod products launched, we hosted an instagram takeover on @TheLandofNod where we shared some behind the scenes views into our design process! Just in case you missed...
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ANNOUNCING: Ampersand for HMK!
We have some HUGE news to share today that has been so hard to keep to ourselves! Finally, we get to announce our gift collection for HMK!!!! HMK is a new Hallmark Cards experience with stores in...
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#AmpersandforNod Fall 2015
Well we thought it was high time that we shared our latest designs for The Land of Nod!!! If you’ve gotten your Fall 2015 catalog, you might’ve seen some of these lovelies! We’ve got storage bins, a...
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