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Joyce Wan designed her first greeting card when she was in grade school for a city-wide greeting card design contest. The design won first place and was subsequently mass-produced and sold through a major department store chain. Twenty years later that design would inspire a line of greeting cards and eventually a design studio called Wanart whose products are now sold in thousands of boutiques, gift shops and museums throughout the world.
kiwiandpear-original drawing During the time that Joyce first started developing her greeting card collection, one of her first designs featured two monkeys hugging (image at left). Inspired by childhood memories of a favorite stuffed animal, this design was clean, bold and irresistibly cute. Visually, the image was simple but the message powerful. The image of Kiwi and Pear represented love and friendship void of race, gender and age. It went on to become one of the most popular card designs in her collection and still is today.

Due to popular demand, Joyce released more greeting card designs featuring Kiwi and Pear. This time Kiwi and Pear were shown engaging in various fun activities as well as visiting different cities all over the world. The bold clean lines and fresh color palette combined with the playful imagery resulted in designs with wide market appeal.

Joyce went on to sign a deal with Madison Park Greetings, a leading designer, manufacturer, and distributor of specialty gift and stationery products to create a series of iPop Clicks Magnets featuring Kiwi and Pear. These illustrations also caught the eye of Blue Apple Books, a leading publisher of innovative children's books, who will be publishing Joyce's debut picture book featuring these monkeys titled "Greetings from Kiwi and Pear" in 2009. The greeting cards themselves continue to be best sellers - consumers cannot get enough of these charming monkeys.

With its soaring popularity and remarkable ability to capture the hearts of consumers around the globe, Kiwi and Pear is perfect for a variety of consumer products and surface design.

For more information about licensing Kiwi and Pear or Wanart illustrations please call 888.987.1188.