Category: letterpress

New: LWYL Posters

Posted on by Hijiri

It was time to print more Live What You Love posters! I printed total of 6 colors in this batch and they are available right here at my etsy shop :)

But as usual, I wanted to share some pictures from the studio…

Type setting — look how beautiful the wood type blocks are! I am in love every time…

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on Vandercook press:

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Adjusting the placement of the letters — I love the overlapping part, I wanna make art by using this technique next time…

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And here are the posters! Each poster is very limited in quantity… as this is really a lot of work…

Yellow:

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Grey:

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Red:

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See the texture from the wood types?

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Black (I never printed it in black so this is new!):

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Brown (new as well):

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It actually looks great with hard wood floor and brown furniture around the house.

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and last but not least, Royal blue (this is new, too):

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Thank you always for looking! :)

New: Letterpress Gift Tags

Posted on by Hijiri

Good morning! Hello, another week! Hope you had a great weekend…

Over the weekend, I listed some more holiday stuff in my etsy shop — letterpress gift tags! They came out so cute, I hope they will add some specialness to your warm holiday thoughts… :)

For “Merry Christmas” and “Season’s Greetings” part, I used blind impression — meaning no ink, just the impression. The set up and everything is the same, just print without the ink:

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Makes great deboss effect! I love it! (I forgot my camera at home this day, these were taken by my iPhone… sorry for a bit less quality photos…)

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Next, I printed “To” and “From” with very light grey:

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I used stripes of papers (Mohawk Superfine papers — very high quality papers) that were left over from another project. No waste on papers! Worked perfectly for this project.

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And here are the final product….

Merry Christmas Letterpress Gift Tags:

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Season’s Greetings Letterpress Gift Tags:

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What do you think? Hope you like them! :)

Red Wine Letterpress Print

Posted on by Hijiri

I love this Red Wine Letterpress Print by Lot 9 Press. A mixture of wood types and metal types is so great and this will make a great art by the wine bar area or in a wine room/cellar (oh, how I wish I had one), don’t you think?

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Love each typeface, too. Texture of the letterpress is just priceless.

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Available here.

Custom Thank You Cards

Posted on by Hijiri

Our friends Megan and Il Sun are getting married tomorrow (!! Congratulations!!) and I was so happy and honored to print their Thank You cards :)

Megan liked the cake graphics I had, so we used that as a starting point and I designed something simple and elegant with their names.

Checking placements and impressions…

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Printing with metallic silver ink… Their whole invitation was in silver-ish color so this matches well.

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And here is the final product. So cute!

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We are going to their wedding in Philadelphia tomorrow, so exciting! It is the last wedding to go this year (the 5th one. It was all in different cities, too.) and I haven’t been to Philadelphia for more than 10 years so it should be a fun trip!! Have a great weekend, everyone. It’s getting colder and colder… stay warm!