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The Year of the Dragon - The Dolphin Studio

The Year of the Dragon

The Year of the Dragon  The Dolphin Studio Calendar image for July 2024 was drawn back in 1999 or maybe 2000 by Ben, my son and John and Primm’s eldest grandchild.  Ben was such a momentous fo...

Summer Print Team Welcomes - Malina Jackson - The Dolphin Studio

Summer Print Team Welcomes - Malina Jackson

Over here in our little woodland studio we have kicked off the 2024 summer season with a couple additions to our Print Team. Today I’d like to introduce you to the first summer printer to rejoin ...

Farewell and Fare Well Johnny Ringer - The Dolphin Studio

Farewell and Fare Well Johnny Ringer

All of us at The Dolphin Studio want to take this opportunity to thank a very important person who has become an integral part of our print shop family. Johnny Ringer, one of our star printers has...

Happy June: Some background about the design and the artist - The Dolphin Studio

Happy June: Some background about the design and the artist

Hi everyone! My name is Lily, and I am part of the Dolphin Studio family. I am the granddaughter of John and Primm ffrench and the daughter of Sofia and Pat Hughes. I have been designing calendar m...

Honoring our Matiarch - Primm ffrench - The Dolphin Studio

Honoring our Matiarch - Primm ffrench

Today, March 8 is International Womens’ Day.  What better way to honor the day than to celebrate our co-founder Primm ffrench, our mom and grandma.  She would have turned 95 on March 9, 2024 - Let'...

The Story of our March 2024 Calendar Image - The Dolphin Studio

The Story of our March 2024 Calendar Image

The Dolphin Studio Calendar's March 2024 calendar image was designed by me, Crispina ffrench, on the left in the photo above, taken by our friend Jane Feldman.  (Pre-order your 2025 calendar here...

Our February Image & Valentine's Day Cards - The Dolphin Studio

Our February Image & Valentine's Day Cards

Sofia, my sister, and partner in The Dolphin Studio (and crime) designed our February image.  If you are new around here, we are second generation ffrench family members running The Dolphin Studio...

Better Together FREE Give-Away and How to Enter - The Dolphin Studio

Better Together FREE Give-Away and How to Enter

We love to create a little interactive high-jinx while sharing The Dolphin Studio in new and fun ways soooo…  every once in a while you will find a FREE GIVE AWAY to enter on our Instagram and Face...

The Story of our January 2024 Calendar Image - The Dolphin Studio

The Story of our January 2024 Calendar Image

Lucy, Crispina and Chris's middle kid, snuggled between Ben and Violet in birth order, designed our January 2024 Dolphin Studio Calendar image. Lucy loves to learn and is pretty much waaay into sc...

The Story of our November 2023 Calendar Image - The Dolphin Studio

The Story of our November 2023 Calendar Image

  This month’s image was made my Your’s Truly, Crispina ffrench.  My sister Sofia, and I run The Dolphin Studio and carry on the creative legacy left for us by our parents.   The 2023 November ima...

Introducing Dolphin Studio Printshop Give-Aways! - The Dolphin Studio

Introducing Dolphin Studio Printshop Give-Aways!

 This month (November 2023) we are hosting the first of a series of Give-Aways from our Silkscreen Print Shop in the Berkshire Hills of Western MA. We figured that November is a great time to stock...

It's Calendar Season 2023 - The Dolphin Studio

It's Calendar Season 2023

The New York Times has included our award-winning calendar in their 2023 holiday gift guide!  Woooo Whoooo!  Sending out high-fives all around!  We are very grateful to be super busy shipping calen...