Jaime Windau in her NY NOW Love Bubby booth Love Bubby product, which owner/designer Jaime Windau brought last week to the Summer 2019 edition of the NY NOW home/lifestyle/handmade/gift market trade show at New York’s Javits Center, focuses on “baby culture,” albeit of the most expressive kind. The Brooklyn-based brand makes knits for tykes that make a statement, in fact, it’s slogan is, “You are never too young to make a statement.” Hence, Love Bubby youngsters sport tees em

Thoughtful Human's Ali O'Grady, holding up a best-selling "How is Your Heart Today" card, at NSS. For sure, they fell into the greeting cards category last week at the National Stationery Show (NSS) at New York’s Javits Center. But Ali O’Grady’s Thoughtful Human line offered greetings of a somewhat different sort. From her “Supportive” card series, for example, in the “Grief and Depression” category, is one that read “Hey! Keep your head up. Or don’t. Whatever feels right.” A

KushKards at NSS She called her line “the happy card” when an attendee walked past her KushKards exhibitor’s booth last week at the National Stationery Show (NSS) at New York’s Javits Center and was stopped in his tracks by the “Strike match, light what you attach” slogan--not to mention the “cannabis greeting cards” on the adjacent wall, and the two big display pieces under it. That both pieces—a blown-up meditative "Namast’ay High" card representation and a "High Wishes" ha

Johnny Clegg and Juluka's "Scatterlings of Africa" Johnny Clegg’s life was truly inspirational. Sometimes called "The White Zulu," the white South African musician, who died July 16 at 66, had immersed himself in the indigenous music of his country, absorbing the Zulu language, folk music and dance styles as a teenager, then leading the racially integrated rock bands Juluka (with Zulu migrant worker Sipho Mchunu) and Savuka, and later performing as a solo artist. He was first