About us

About us

Cornflower is a company specialising in the production of bespooke greeting cards, notecards, Christmas cards, notebooks, gift stationery and botanical print ranges for the museum, gallery and heritage markets. We produce ranges for some of the leading museums and institutions in the UK on a bespoke basis. Our in-house printing and finishing gives us a short-run bespoke publishing capability, with minimums as low as 100 greeting cards. Our reputation in this area has earned us work from individual artists, to specialised localmuseums to national museums and galleries. Our expertise in design and production for museums has also taken us into production of fine art quality bone china and earthenware mugs and ceramic giftware, again with the emphasis on short runs. Museum, gallery and heritage customers include: The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, Royal Academy, Natural History Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Courtauld Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, V&A Theatre Museum, Royal Shakespeare Company, York Minster, RSPB, The National Gallery, National Museums of Scotland and the National Art Collections Fund. Cornflower started life as a publisher of fine art prints and greeting cards and, over the last few years, has grown rapidly into one of the leading manufacturers of short-run bespoke retail products to the heritage industry in the UK.All our customers are attracted by our low minimum quantities and the quality of our production, meaning that bespoke products are now viable for the shortest running exhibition and the smallest venue. Many customers use our services to buy "on-demand" alleviating the need to hold large stocks of products, which can be especially useful with products like postcards.Our flexibility and knowledge in the heritage sector has helped us to develop a customer list that includes The National Gallery, St.Pauls Cathedral, Kew Gardens, the National Art Collections Fund, the Royal Academy of Arts and the House of Commons.Our service can start with selecting images from your collection, or working with images that you already know you want to use. All our design work is included in the final cost of the product - and usually starts with the production of a design storyboard. From there, we will produce mock-ups of products that are of interest - and all this before you have even placed an order with us!Cornflower Press, based in Berkshire, is our printing division, producing printed paper products, including postcards, greeting cards, notebooks and prints. All on a short-run basis.Cornflower Blue, based in Stoke-on-Trent, is our ceramics company, designing and producing mugs and other items of ceramic giftware, again with the emphasis on short runs.