Art and a garage. A cottage-industry is born.

That’s how this humble little company got its start. At age 57, Ardys Allport might have been an unlikely mother to a brand new company, but she had passion and a vision to spread art. In 1982, in true cottage-industry fashion, Ardys cleared out her garage in northern California and launched Allport Editions, a fine art poster company aimed at making art accessible.

Sophisticated. And Funny? A happy accident occurs.

After several years of successful poster publishing, blank note cards were added to the Allport line. At the last minute, Ardys’ son Michael threw a few humor greeting cards into the mix, almost as an afterthought. Little did he know the combination of art and humor would take Allport to the top.

Artful and Sharp. Intelligent and Funny.

Greeting cards have since become the success of the Allport story. Allport Editions makes cards that are artful and cards that are funny, and sometimes cards that are both at the same time. They are the distinct combination of unexpectedly corresponding ingredients picked up along their 30-year journey. Art and intelligence, beauty plus wit – that makes Allport Editions who they are today.