Ink Dish

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Ink Dish is an American tableware design company located in San Diego, California. The company uses designs by contemporary underground artists for their line of porcelain dinnerware.{{cite news |url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2010/05/ceramics-company-brings-indie-artists-to-dinner/1 |title=Ceramics company brings indie artists to dinner |author=Whitney Matheson |accessdate=2010-05-17 |publisher=USA Today | date=2010-05-17}} Ink Dish was founded in 2008 by husband and wife David Harding and Caroline Pople.{{cite news |url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2010/05/ceramics-company-brings-indie-artists-to-dinner/1 |title=Ceramics company brings indie artists to dinner |author=Whitney Matheson |accessdate=2010-05-17 |publisher=USA Today | date=2010-05-17}}{{cite web |url=http://www.prickmag.net/feature.php?name=inkdish |title=Ink Dish Irezumi Dinnerware Set |accessdate=2009-07-04 |publisher=Prick Magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708001032/http://www.prickmag.net/feature.php?name=inkdish |archive-date=2009-07-08 |url-status=dead }}

Julie Pople, mother of Caroline, is the lead designer for Ink Dish. Julie graduated from Liverpool Art College (John Moores University) in 1971 with a degree in Textile Design. Julie was an in-house ceramic designer for Royal Stafford, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent until becoming the head of design for the European arm of the ceramic company PT Sango.

In 2008, Ink Dish partnered with Paul Timman to create a line of tattoo inspired porcelain dinnerware.Binkley, Christina [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704628404576265071793920928 "The Rembrandt of Sunset Strip"], Wall Street Journal, 2011-04-23. Retrieved on 2011-08-17. "I knew that if I did my job well, I could bridge the gap between mainstream society and help to introduce tattooing into everyday life -- without the process of getting tattooed," says Timman.{{cite news |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2009/05/china-tattoos-plates-dishes-.html |title=Paul Timman gives dishware a tattoo makeover |author=Barbara Thornburg |accessdate=2009-06-25 |work=Los Angeles Times | date=2009-05-28}} The Irezumi tableware design by Paul Timman was named to Metropolitan Home's 2009 Design 100 list {{cite web |url=http://www.pointclickhome.com/image/tid/4752?mag=PointClickHome&page=3&pause=1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120908074556/http://www.pointclickhome.com/image/tid/4752?mag=PointClickHome&page=3&pause=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 8, 2012 |title=Design 100 |accessdate=2009-06-25 |publisher=Metropolitan Home }} The design is based on the Japanese style of tattooing known as Irezumi.

In 2010 Ink Dish partnered with modern artists David Palmer and Dana Oldfather.Brown, Phaedra [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/garden/09tableware.html "Design Firm Turns Dinnerware Into Works of Art"], New York Times, 2010-07-08. Retrieved on 2010-07-08. In 2011 Ink Dish had established a partnership with artist Alyson Fox.{{cite web |url=http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/01/new-alyson-fox-dishware.html |title=New Alyson Fox Dishware |author=Grace Bonney |date=2010-01-13 |accessdate=2010-03-26 |publisher=Design Sponge |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118093212/http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/01/new-alyson-fox-dishware.html |archivedate=2010-01-18 }} Ink Dish also designs patterns for tableware manufacturers such as Villeroy & Boch, Macy's, and Corelle. Among the best known of the company's product range are Paul Timman's pattern Cherry Ink, Alyson Fox's pattern December, and Dana Oldfather's pattern Kites.