Brighten your day with Blue Kite Press. 

Colorful, nostalgic housewares, stationery, and gifts: functional everyday products to make every day a Blue Kite Day. 

Blue Kite Press is a woman-owned studio near Boston designing lllustrated products for thoughtful gift giving and sustainable living.

Trays, Tervis tumblers, tea towels, and enamel mugs with beachy seaside illustration

Our Story

My love of stationery started early. My grandmother would bring home notepads and pencils from her office so we could play post office together. Bookstores, gift shops, and stationery stores became my favorite places, with aisles of colorful home goods, paper products, and stickers galore.

One summer, a friend asked me to illustrate t-shirts and sweatshirts for her beach community. The neighbors loved the design and asked for it on note cards, tea towels, and mugs. I was vacationing on Nantucket at the time, so I spent my days in the island’s shops and boutiques, studying what they carried and picturing my illustrations on their shelves.

I founded Blue Kite Press in 2019 with a collection inspired by joyful colors and childhood memories. Today it includes more than 150 products, from greeting cards and notepads to drinkware, totes, and ornaments, sold online, at trade shows, and in independent shops across the country.

Zig Zag in bright colors

About the Kite

I used to love visiting the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia on school trips and family outings. The walk-through Giant Heart exhibit, hours of interactive displays, and that enormous statue of Ben Franklin in the central rotunda — it all felt like magic. Years later, I watched my sons experience that same sense of wonder as they raced around the museum's exhibits.

That feeling of discovery stayed with me and shaped my approach to design and illustration. While creating the artwork that became my collection, I kept thinking about Ben Franklin's famous kite experiment — proving his theories about electricity using nothing but a kite, a metal key, and a thunderstorm. It struck me that his kite was the perfect symbol for what I wanted this brand to be: a reminder that anything is possible when we approach each day with creativity and curiosity.

Picture of a boy at Franklin Institute, Dana Lynch with Ben Franklin and Kite and Ben Franklin in rotunda at Franklin Institute, Philadelphia