Robin Joy Riggsbee

Condolences: August 8th, 2009.

2009-08-09T09:50:00.000-07:00

We at Robin Joy Riggsbee want to offer our solemn condolences to the families of the victims who lost their lives in the mid-air plane and helicopter collision, which occurred yesterday morning, just before noon, over the Hudson River in lower Manhattan.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all affected by this devastating event.

For more information: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/nyregion/10collide.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

New Branding!

2009-08-02T13:35:00.000-07:00

We're very pleased to reveal our new branding design! Enjoy!

Introducing Allen.

2009-08-02T13:01:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends. My name is Allen Wilcox and I've begun working with Robin at the boutique on Charles Street. I'm thrilled to be a part of the community here and look forward to meeting more of you in the weeks and months to come. In addition to spending Sunday afternoon at the showroom, I'll also be keeping the blog regularly updated with photos, videos, information on special events and all sorts of imaginative diatribe. Get ready!

ALSO:

Robin and I are very excited to announce that her presence can now be felt on Twitter! Follow Robin's tweets here:

http://twitter.com/RobinJoyDesigns

Lots more to follow!

Origami Wallets

2009-03-26T10:27:00.000-07:00

Sok Song, origami artist extraordinaire has created these wonderful wallets out of our graphics. All made with one sheet of paper, no glue and scissors, just mathematical paper folding genius. Here is one with the Hand Dancer. $30 for this awesome conversational piece. Imagine whipping this out and the things you could talk about and share with people. Sok Song does it again.

Installation Up Close and Personal

2009-02-13T15:00:00.000-08:00

More photos from the installation, taken by the very talented and sweet Mr. Tom. Check out his site, www.sirtomphoto.com for more lovely images by him. Thank you so much for all your photo documenting, color correcting and file-sending!

Up close and personal!
beJOYed
Robin

Heartleys Book Signing and Origami Lesson

2009-02-10T11:10:00.000-08:00

Please come visit us on Thursday, February 12th from 2-6pm for the signing of our second book, 'The Heartleys.'

Sherry and I will be there with the books doing a meet-and greet, and of course, we've roped in Sok to do an origami lesson with everyone! The paper will be provided just bring your lovely selves.

We will be hosted again by the ever-gracious Steven and Hiroko of Leffot at 10 Christopher Street (on the corner of Christopher and Gay between 6th and 7th Ave).

Heartley's Book Signing & Origami lesson
with Robin Joy, Sherry, and Sok Song
at Leffot
10 Christopher St.
2-6 PM

By the way, a portion of our sales are going to God's Love We Deliver, and organization that delivers meals to home-bound patients. They have been great and we hope to make this event a huge success for them and for us!

www.godslovewedeliver.org

And this would also be a great time to come and see the installation which is still up at Leffot.

Look forward to seeing you there!
beJOYed
Robin

Merci Beaucoup

2009-02-06T11:44:00.000-08:00

Waking up this morning was like coming out of a dream. Last night was our gallery opening and it was beyond our wildest expectations. Everyone. Everything. It was surreal!

We had over 200 people come out (!). And we met some of the most interesting people from fashion and art and origami.

First and foremost I would like to thank Sok Song. If you are ever so fortunate to have someone like him in your life on a personal or professional level--- WELL, one should be so blessed. Sok and I also want to thank Marcio Noguchi and the whole OMG group for helping with the prep work on the exhibit. And thank you guys for coming out!

My business partner Sherry. I haven't told you about her yet? She's my best friend and we also wrote our 2 books together A Couple O' Cats and The Heartleys. She's the best and without her-- well things would be verrrrrry different.

I also wanted to thank Patrick McDonald for being a wonderful and tireless host, and to Steven and Hiroko Taffel who also hosted the event at their store and lent us the gallery space. All of you were so important to making the night run smoothly.

Some more people who helped out... Alexander Horwitz -- wow. He helped design the 'flow' of the room and thank you so much for being a part of it all. Jamie Rosenburg who filmed the whole event, thank you!
The beautiful and stunning Hope Davis, who not only modeled one of my dresses, but was enchanting as a personality for the event.

And again, to everyone that came out. I sound like a broken record, but it was like being in a dream or in a movie. Thank you, I am still overJOYed.

Love,
Robin

SOK IS IN DAILY CANDY!

2009-02-04T10:13:00.000-08:00

We are so excited that Sok, the origami artist extraordinaire and our wonderful collaborator on our installation at Leffot tomorrow, Thursday Feb 5th from 7-9 is featured in today's Daily Candy New York's Lifestyle section.

We love Sok and hope everyone can see how special and gifted he is. We are so lucky to know (I swear, he is just the best)-- and now here he is, featured in one of my fave newsletters. Please click here and check out his article. And they mentioned me too! Robin Joy Riggsbee and our installation. This is a big deal, we're overJOYed!

Our Dishware is Here!

2009-01-28T09:36:00.000-08:00

Check out our new dishes, they are finally here! We have our BEAUTIFUL mugs which are TDF (to die for!) featuring Riggsbee, our mascot, Hand Dancers, Menage a Trois, Imagination and Miss Diva. You don't know who they are? Well I am going to post some photos. The dishes are awesome, we have a 3 point dish and a square cake dish, the aforementioned GORGEOUS mugs and our tea pots and tea jars. It's the perfect set for cake and tea time. And just so you know we love cake around here.

I like the sets of mixed 3 point dishes and mugs for guests, because, of course (!) it adds a whimsical element to coffee and tea time.

Mugs- $25
Plates- $24
Tea Pot- $60
Canister- $58

Check them out.
And.. be JOYed!
Robin

So Now you know Miss Diva is our cat, Riggsbee is our dog.

Opening Night- February 5th

2009-01-28T09:16:00.000-08:00

The opening night of the collaboration between me, Robin and Sok Song is approaching-- and we've been so busy assembling all the pieces. We've been helped out so much by Steve and Hiroko of Leffot-- and if you are in Greenwich Village, please stop by and see what we're doing in the marriage of the world of graphics with the world of origami.

The event is going to be at the Gallery of Leffot which is located at 10 Christopher Street between Ave of the Americas and Gay St. We're going to be in the back, and you can't miss us. The opening night party is going to be hosted by our good friend Patrick McDonald. If you are going to come by, please send us an email so that we can confirm you. The event is from 7-9 in the evening. RSVP to robin@robinjoy.com if you would like to come and meet us!

beJOYed!
Robin

Installation at Leffot

2009-01-16T13:33:00.000-08:00

Check out one of our favorite sites, The Sartorialist's pieces on Leffot. Remember, our upcoming exhibition is at the Gallery of Leffot.

Friday Meeting

2009-01-16T13:12:00.000-08:00

Guess What! We are going to be in a film about people who are passionate about what they do. Today, we had a meeting with Patrick McDonald (who is not 67!), stylish and handsome man-about-town, who is hosting our show at the gallery of Leffot coming up in just 20 days. Sok is here and he's folding away while we all plan fun events for the upcoming year. Miss Flavia, the super cool jewelry designer/comedienne and lots of other things, is planning her trunk show here for some time in late April. It's going to be awesome. Miss Shivani highly covets her fantastic 18K gold 'flavia' gold band (but would much rather have it say 'shivani' ;).

Friday Funday, right before Saturday FLatterday and Sunday Funday.

The Store- An Ever-Changing Mural

2009-01-09T15:06:00.000-08:00

What we're working with here!
Here's a little taste of the store before we added all our accents. We live in an ever mutating world, with constantly changing wall murals-- but the black and white illustrations will always be the basis of what we do here. I hope you guys can get an idea of our space here-- and we'll keep adding new pictures so you can see how we're evolving over time.

Ch-ch-check it out.

Mexico to Manhattan

2009-01-09T15:00:00.000-08:00

So I am going to be returning from Mexico tomorrow-- and it's going to be 4-7" of snow. Mexico to Manhattan!

Meanwhile, we've had some great visitors in the store. Shivani met with Bradley Ersam of Bradley Ersam Designs-- he retools bikes (motorbikes to tricycles) and does art that's as detailed as mine-- but very different. A real renaissance man. Check out his work at www.bradleyersamdesigns.com

We'll be getting back to work on the installation exhibition with Sok-- if he's ready to brave the storm.
Stay warm!

My Ghost Writers...

2008-12-28T19:31:00.001-08:00

Let me introduce to you my fabulous Ghost writer the beautiful and talented Shivani Mehta. (picture from her facebook page) All the way from the Left Coast, has become one of my most precious fixtures in the store. She is the one who helped me set up the blog and keeps me in line when I get too far out there.... that is if she's not going out there with me too. :) by the way this is being written by my other ghost writer Sok (the temp while Shivani is home for the holidays) We both miss you, come back soon!!

And let me introduce myself. Sok Song, the origami artist working with Robin on the fantastic installation project for Leffot in Greenwich Village. Little do I know that Robin is recruiting both Shivani and I forever.... but I don't mind because I have a lot of fun when I am with her! :)

Print the town Pink..

2008-12-28T18:53:00.000-08:00

So After another great meeting with lots of good food we started a mini print-a-thon with Sherry here this time (to help load paper)... and Sok at the computer going nuts over the beautiful patterns and the various color pattern options! (and Me, the Real Robin drooling as the prints came out of the handy dandy wide format printer...This is a shot after printing some with

the Origami hands by Sok.

The shot to the right is Sherry

getting a little overwhelmed by Sok and I going crazy over printing more patterns... She was worried that we would stay all night again! Sherry Rousso is my Business Partner... We were childhood friends through our mothers who were best friends and partners, they sang together professionally and were known as the Harlequins.

I am as happy as a clam! and by the way that is the name of one my prints. Watch those paper hands!!

Sok and Robin Print-a-Thon!!!

2008-12-22T21:14:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone, this is the Real Robin... my Ghost-Writer is currently on the left coast for the holidays, visiting family... but right at this moment, she is buying makeup at a mall, for her glamour shots soon to be posted on this blog...

Sooo I am having to write my own blog tonight... actually I'm having the temp ghost writer Sok type as I kinda dictate this... :) We are posting about our print-a-thon today, tonight, tomorrow... the printing and playing with prints, patterns, and colors have gone way past the fleeting hours of the night, into the wee hours of the morning... we are too giddy for words, a bit slap happy-go-lucky because of the late hour.... but we have been very productive and have been working hard printing some beautiful patterns on large format papers for the Installation project in Late January, February.... Above is a candid shot of the Real Robin, posing with all of the beautiful prints laid out all over the floor.

Tooling Around

2008-12-19T19:01:00.000-08:00

This week has been insane at our studio. Here I am working on my latest project, a small piece of jewelry. We had a meeting for our installation last night, and while everyone was tooling around on the computers taking a break, I was also tooling around re-fashioning a bracelet a dear friend had given me. I got caught with my goggles on, which I use to do fine item work. But you can see the shop behind me, which still looks pretty even though I look industrial.

Getting Ready

2008-12-12T14:48:00.000-08:00

We're getting ready for our big exhibit with world famous origami artist Sok Song. I can't wait to show you all what we have in store. Speaking of in store-- we have so many wonderful 'recession-friendly' Holiday items in the store right now. I love walking in every morning. I'll post photos of the mural we did on the back wall as well.

Welcome To My World

2008-12-07T18:02:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the world of Robin Joy. I wanted to keep a log of my ideas and inspirations so that people feel connected with my gallery here in New York's West Village. Stop by if you get a chance and have some tea and chocolate with me.