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Morris & Essex cards are currently available at a number of shops around the world, including:
Coucou at Thames 1437 in Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Newspaper Taxi at 247 Australia Street, Newtown, Australia.
Kate's Paperie at locations throughout Manhattan. New York, NY, USA.
Ferdinand at 243 Congress Street, Portland, ME, USA.
Catbird at 219 Bedford Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Muddy's Bake Shop at 5101 Sanderlin Ste 114, Memphis, TN, USA
Morris & Essex products are all designed and printed by me, Eliza Jane Curtis, in my studio in the leafy and historic Palermo barrio of Buenos Aires. My work is a combination of linocut block-printing and silkscreen, using both traditional screenprinting techniques and a new-fangled Japanese Gocco machine.
Morris & Essex began around 1998 as a series of hand-printed birds on thrift-shop t-shirts, made in the silkscreen studio at Parsons School of Design. It was named after a now-forgotten ghost story about the Morris & Essex Train line in New Jersey.
Designs combine my love of the city's art deco architectural details and memories of childhood daydreams in the fields and forests of Maine to create motifs of geometry, nature and fantasy.