20 Birds

Monica Gabb is the designer and creator of Twenty Birds. She grew up in the south and gained her Master’s Degree in Sequential Design and Illustration at the University of Brighton in 2006. During this year she moved to North Yorkshire.

When she began designing her triangular birds, she noticed repetition in colour and marks and wanted to find out if she could overlap them between birds. Monica constructed a template to fit 20 birds of varying size and rotation. She spent time working on the best combinations and number of abstractions sticking to straight lines only. She wanted to stay true to original colour ways yet reduce the amount of tone variation.  

The card collection includes a Twelve days of Christmas collection which spans over snall card available in packs, Large cards with cut out and foil features and gift wrap. There is also a blank series, occassion series and a selection of birthday cards.

Monica designs all of her products and has been sure to find UK based printers and producers for her cards, mugs, tea towels and fabric. Monica prints and produces all of her original screen prints are had finishes the cut-out cards. All of the Hanging decorations are entirely made by Monica one the fabric has been digitally printed in the UK. 

Monica is keen to ensure that her packaging is plastic free where possible. Some cards need to be protected by compostable cellos if they have pop outs. Cards are also available naked. 

Twenty Birds originated from Monica’s fascination of the wide variety of pattern and colour within varying birds. She loves exploring image and print and is drawn to collections; displaying the differences and similarities within a group and finding order in layout, correlation in shape and contrast in scaling and pattern.