Pinkerton Design Introduces Line of Eco-Friendly Tote Bags on Its New Online Shop

PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 01, 2008 – SEATTLE, WA – Seattle-based greeting card and stationery company Pinkerton Design today launches its redesigned web site – www.pinkertondesign.com – featuring an online shop that showcases its latest products – most notably a new line of recycled cotton tote bags (http://www.pinkertondesign.com/pages/tote-bags)  that carry on Pinkerton’s distinctive brand of charming and unique design patterns. Pinkerton Design tote bags respond to the rapidly growing demand for eco-friendly, reusable recycled products. The line also represents lead designer and founder Penny Richards Eversole’s foray into a new medium, expanding Pinkerton’s product line beyond paper.

“I love paper, printing, and the idea of sending greetings as a way of bringing people together. But I’ve always wanted to apply my design sense to other media, and our new tote bags are the perfect next step,” notes Eversole. She also points out that, “Our simple, colorful style lends itself perfectly to the silkscreen process, with the totes already receiving rave reviews in the shops that carry our line.”

Pinkerton Design places a premium on producing eco-friendly products, all of which are designed, manufactured and printed in the United States. The company’s new tote bags are printed on a unique fabric that is 80 percent recycled cotton (scraps from textile manufacturing) and 20 percent recycled post-consumer PET (composed of plastic water and soda bottles, food packaging), resulting in a natural colored cotton weave that wears and washes better than organic cotton. The totes come in six different designs and two sizes – shopper size (17” x 14.5” x 3”) and book bag size (13” x 14” x 3”). Coordinating note cards available for three of the tote bag designs make a great gift set for the rapidly approaching holidays.

The company’s eco-friendly totes are featured on Pinkerton Design’s revamped web site, which incorporates new e-commerce capabilities, the Pinkerblog (http://pinkerblog.blogspot.com), and a store finder (http://www.pinkertondesign.com/pages/where-to-buy) that allows consumers to find Pinkerton greeting cards, stationery and other products at a store near them.

“Until now, we’ve only been a wholesale company. Pinkerton’s new e-commerce capability represents the latest chapter in how our customers can shop our full line of merchandise directly on our web site,” points out Eversole. Pinkerton Design is also dedicated to protecting the environment (http://www.pinkertondesign.com/pages/faq), marked by its commitment to printing all new paper products on recycled and/or FSC-certified stock, beginning in 2008 and moving forward, and using only vegetable- and soy-based inks.  

Pinkerton Design was founded in 2004 by graphic designer Penny Richards Eversole, who creates all of the company’s designs. Today, Pinkerton is run out of a small studio in Seattle’s Fremont/Wallingford neighborhood. What started as a small line of greeting cards (http://www.pinkertondesign.com/pages/greeting-cards) is now a full-fledged business with its wide array of paper goods and line of tote bags sold all over the U.S., Canada, and around the globe. Penny Richards Eversole’s work reflects a love of color, illustration, pattern, typography, printing and paper. Other sources of inspiration include her grandmother’s quilts, her parents’ old cookbooks, 1950’s roadside signage, Ed Emberley’s drawing books, and Seattle’s strange and beautiful plants.

For additional information on Pinkerton Design’s new line of eco-friendly tote bags, greeting cards and stationery, please visit our web site at www.pinkertondesign.com, or contact Chrysoula Economopoulos at 202.285.7726 or info [at] pinkertondesign.com.