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NEW: the Jim Flora Big Bank Robbery wooden jigsaw puzzle by Artifact Puzzles. This 302-piece work features a mischievous and colorful 1960s Flora painting. The puzzle, which measures 10.5″ x 16″, was laser-cut from 1/4″ thick wood and comes packaged in a pinewood case. The irregular edges of each puzzle piece were inspired by Flora’s art and themed to the image by puzzle artist Tara Flannery. The Big Bank Robbery has long been available as…

Those perennial favorite Jim Flora calendars are in stock for 2012. You’ve got your bug-eyed saxophonist, an Aren’t-We-Having-Fun? moon, and a manic drummer to guide you through the coming Leap Year. These are hand-printed mini-calendars measuring 10″ x 4-1/2″.  If you prefer something of greater magnitude in a maritime motif, our Sheffield Island poster-sized calendar should suit your tastes:

JimFlora.com is offering a new 2011 poster-sized calendar featuring a 1954 Flora woodcut illustration called SHEFFIELD ISLAND. The artwork is hand-printed letterpress in black ink on kraft card stock; a 12-month tear away calendar is attached on the bottom. When the year ends, you have a unique hand-pulled letterpress Jim Flora print suitable for framing. The full dimensions of the card with artwork are 13-1/2″ x 17″. The calendars, which were hand-printed by Yee-Haw Industrial…

We recently opened a Jim Flora store at Etsy.com. For now, the shelves are merchandise-sparse, but more items will be added in the coming weeks. Current and future Etsy offerings are also available through our fine art prints gallery and our Little Shop of Flora’s. Either place you purchase, the source is the same: us. We’re also considering listing some exclusive items at Etsy. We’ll have Flora 2011 letterpress calendars available in September. Same designs…

Our Jim Flora “Plant You Now, Dig You Later” letterpress notecards are multi-purpose. One customer (whose name, forgive us, we’ve misplaced) had these 1950s jazz hepcats framed and sent us a snapshot. Others have used them as … notecards.

We’ve sold a bunch but they’re still in stock: 2010 Jim Flora calendars. The spunky hyperactive figures date from Flora’s mid-1950s RCA Victor LP period. Each calendar is letterpress printed one color at a time on card stock, and accessorized with a 12-month tearaway calendar. Buy one ($12.50) or a set of three at the Little Shop of Flora’s. These keepsake datekeepers were produced by Yee-Haw Industries, of Knoxville.

Back in stock: letterpress-printed cards with cool 1940s and ’50s music and turntable illustrations by Flora. The cards were designed and printed by our friends at Yee-Haw Industrial Letterpress, in Knoxville. Packaged in sets of four: Dig You Later, Stardust Moon, Deluxe-O-Tone, and Trees.

We’ve received no reports of malfunctioning 2009 calendars—every day has thus far been accounted for, in the correct sequence—so we’re offering 2010 models, hot off Yee-Haw’s industrial presses. The spunky hyperactive figures date from Flora’s mid-1950s RCA Victor LP period. Each calendar is letterpress printed one color at a time on card stock, and accessorized with a 12-month tearaway calendar. Buy one ($12.50) or a set of three at the Little Shop of Flora’s.

Jason Bradshaw: “My girlfriend Lisa and I decided to take up bookbinding. We’re starting off doing passport sized blank notebooks. We’ve been using printer paper for the insides and card stock for the cover. I took some Jim Flora album cover prints and made a small pile of mini sketchbooks which I intend to give out to a couple of friends.”

… is now open. Jim Flora hand-printed notecards, fine art bookmarks, and 2009 letterpress calendars at affordable prices. We’ve also released a number of new fine art and album cover prints over the past few weeks but haven’t had an opportunity to alert our mailing list. Here’s two, but there’s more over at JimFlora.com: Self-Portrait, ca. 1947 Gunfight on the Roof, 1951

Extending the Flora album cover tradition, contemporary designers have been licensing Jim Flora images for CDs. At JimFlora.com, we’ve launched a gallery of recent digital releases that have been Floradized. Interested in using Flora art for your CD? Just ask.

Ruth Seidler, of Brooklyn’s JollyBe Bakery: “Devils food cake with hazelnut dacquoise and chocolate/hazelnut buttercream. Design inspired by the 1960’s [sic] jazz record jacket designs of Jim Flora.”