design founded 2008 founder david harding caroline pople headquarters san diego california usa key people julie pople website www.inkdish.com 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 . 1 ink dish was founded in 2008 by david harding and caroline pople . 2 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 . 3 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 . 4 the irezumi tableware design by paul timman was named to metropolitan home s 2009 design 100 list 5 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 . 6 in 2011 ink dish had established a partnership with artist alyson fox . 7 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 . references edit whitney matheson 2010 05 17 . ceramics company brings indie artists to dinner . usa today . retrieved 2010 05 17 . ink dish irezumi dinnerware set . prick magazine . retrieved 2009 07 04 . binkley christina the rembrandt of sunset strip wall street journal 2011 04 23 . retrieved on 2011 08 17 . barbara thornburg 2009 05 28 . paul timman gives dishware a tattoo makeover . los angeles times . retrieved 2009 06 25 . design 100 . metropolitan home . retrieved 2009 06 25 . brown phaedra design firm turns dinnerware into works of art new york times 2010 07 08 . retrieved on 2010 07 08 . grace bonney 2010 01 13 . new alyson fox dishware . design sponge . retrieved 2010 03 26 . external links edit ink dish official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ink dish & oldid 743674804 categories companies based in san diegodinnerware designers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 17 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view