Sherman’s Travel Magazine has built up a circulation of almost half a million readers on the concept of “smart luxury.” That’s a concept that we can relate to and thus, we were thrilled to be featured in their latest  issue.

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“Tattoo world deity Paul Timman brings his intricate art to the dinner table”.

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Check out the Summer 2010 issue on newsstands now or visit their website to learn more about affordable luxury from Irezumi dinnerware to how to get half off stays on Nantucket Island.

Ink Dish and Paul Timman’s Cherry Ink pattern got a great shout out in today’s New York Post. Celebrity Chef Chris Stanton, judge on the food channel’s Chopped and proprietor of the Stanton Social Club was featured along with his stylish abode in the paper.

photo by Elizabeth Lippman

Chris and Taryn Santos’ Favorite Things: The couple’s wedding china, a pattern called Cherry Ink, designed by tattoo artist Paul Timman.

You can spot the mug and bowl in the photo and read the quote and the entire article at the NY Post.

If your in NYC check out The Stanton Social Club and make sure you save room for dessert. The puddings are amazing.

CityLine is Canada’s longest running lifestyle show. Recently, host Tracy Moore talked to Jeanette Hlinka of Canadian House & Home about entertaining made simple. Paul Timman’s Cherry Ink pattern was the star of the show. Watch the full episode here (Ink Dish on at 16:00)

One of the best things about tableware is the lovely things people eat off your wares. We’re thrilled to be a small part of the London food scene by providing a backdrop for some beautiful grilled squid.

Now that summer is upon us, the barbeque gets a serious firing up. A perfect way to spend a lazy Saturday or Sunday, I sometimes struggle to see past the usual burgers, steaks, chicken drumsticks and kebabs. Often it can turn into a total meatfest. Recently though, we’ve been a bit more creative.

Read the whole story and see the goods from Lizzie Eats London.

It’s been a busy couple of days on the Ink Dish website thanks to great writeup by Whitney Matheson who blogs for USA Today on “pop culture & hidden treasures”.

I like the way these items overlap with the art world: Pop reader Caroline P. told me about a small company she started with her husband called Ink Dish that puts designs by contemporary underground artists onto dinnerware.

“We’re hopefully changing people’s perception of what decoration can be and creating some pretty awesome modern functional art,” she says.

The first two collections are pretty great: One is by Hollywood tattoo artist Paul Timman; the other comes from Austin artist Alyson Fox.

Check out the full piece here.

One of our favorite things about creating dinnerware is the fact that you eat off them. Our design director Caroline’s brother Chris Pople is one of the foremost food bloggers in London. Chris has been featured in the Guardian newspaper, his Cheese and Biscuits is one of the most popular food blogs in the U.K., and he even hosted a talk on mangos for a foreign embassy (even though he doesn’t really like mangos).

If you are ever heading to London be sure to have a read through Cheese and Biscuits before you book a meal. And if your interested in taking a butchery course while you’re there read his latest post and see the results on an Irezumi Dinner plate.

At Ink Dish we could definitely be described as being avid ‘foodies’ so when we found out we were going to be nestled amongst the delicious recipes at Fine Cooking magazine were were pretty chuffed to say the least. We were featured in their great finds section so thanks to associate editor Denise Mickelsen who as well as eating from Ink Dish plates was kind enough to pass on some cooking advice to me! At Ink Dish HQ we celebrated by cooking up the American classic of Mac n’ Cheese that looked so tasty on the front cover. You can read the article online here

I’ve been asked a few times now how we put Paul’s artwork onto the plates so I thought I’d share it with everyone.

As anyone who’s been Inked can tell you, the tattoo starts it’s life as a drawing by the tattoo artist, it’s just an outline really. The artist draws onto a transferable paper and it becomes a stencil that goes onto your skin in the desired area. The magic begins when the artist puts needle to skin and blends colours and shades all free hand directly onto your flesh.

Tattooing plates was obviously a bit different. We were given the artwork as a basic stencil, and as beautiful and intricate as Paul’s drawings are we had to digitally add the colours and shading with photoshop. Paul’s drawing came with instructions on the various techniques and styles of shading and the colurs typically used in tattooing.  Once we had perfected that with the tattooists approval, the digital images were ready to send onto the factory for production and then that’s a whole other story for another time.

Ink Dish design director Caroline Pople became a cover girl this month thanks to Nouveau! Nouveau is a style supplement for HomeWorld Business magazine: a “leading business-to-business publication for the housewares industry”. For their fall 2009 issue the leading story was about how body art has become inspiration for new dinnerware designs.

Our very own Caroline Pople was interviewed about our Paul Timman tattoo tableware along with Jessica Rust who has also produced some tableware with tattoo type motifs on them. The issue was out in time for the New York Table Top show and it was nice to see a familiar face on the news stand in the basement of 41 Madison this year. We’ve had a great reaction to it so far and you can read the full article here.

The sound is a little soft in this video but it is a great piece on the history of Sunset Strip Tattoo, where Paul Timman works. Check it out and see what Paul does in his day job when he is not creating cool dinnerware sets.