Category: letterpress

LWYL 6th Edition

Posted on by Hijiri

Last Friday, I printed Live What You Love 6th edition.

Always starts with the light color and go darker and darker for easy press cleaning – it’s time consuming thing to change the color on the press, but if you go light to dark, you don’t have to clean as much.

so I started with the yellow:

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Back in my shop:

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Orange:

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Mixing a new color…

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For Brown! It goes well with your brown frame for sure.

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and… I thought I hadn’t printed in blue for a while and I wanted to do a lighter blue this time…

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and here it is – sky blue:

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I actually really like this blue! So pretty and fresh looking – what do you guys think?! :)

6th edition is not yet done, I am printing more! You *might* see more new colors soon…

LWYL Poster!

Posted on by Hijiri

I was in the studio yesterday printing…. Live What You Love posters! A few people have requested a larger size of the print and I have been planning to do so for such a long time and finally, I accomplished the plan. Oh, my god, it was harder than I thought it would be! So I could only print 10 posters in yellow… I’m going to print more colors as requested from now on, I think, because it just takes time… now I appreciate even more of those hand-printed large posters!

Cutting papers – these tools are my friends for a long time.

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Type setting my new 4 inch tall wood types! They are really beautiful.

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Putting ink on the roller – it needs to be right amount of ink.

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After printing one proof, adjusting takes long time… and the end result is here!

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It fits in IKEA RIBBA 19 3/4 x 27 1/2 frame perfectly.

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For more information and to buy, please visit my etsy shop! Thank you!

In the Studio 3.31.09

Posted on by Hijiri

I was in the letterpress studio yesterday printing my friend’s wedding invitations. My friend is going to do the illustration on the invitation all by herself (I think she’s going to silkscreen them) so I was just printing the letters/texts – I will share how it turns out when she is all done with everything, but here are some photos from the studio…

Mixing color – I love mixing colors. So fun.

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The plates set on the base on the Vandercook Press, plate is from Boxcar Press.

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Color matches fine, love the impression, keep printing and printing…

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I printed invitations, RSVP cards, and direction cards – 150 each. I can’t wait to see the final product with her illustrations, it’s going to be beautiful, I’m sure.

Letterpress Studio

Posted on by Hijiri

I’ve mentioned that I am renting a letterpress studio starting this month… it has been awesome! I am sharing this space with other talented people and this is the Vandercook Press I’m using.

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Ben, who I share this press with, uses soy-based ink and it is 100% non-toxic space, I love it so much! Do you see a vegetable oil under the press? We clean the press with the oil.

The space is big, there are 2 Vandercook Presses and 1 C&P Press. This is our area:

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Wood furnitures and such:

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A guillotine cutter. This thing cuts papers like crazy! Very dangerous if you don’t know how to use it. The blade is so sharp that you don’t even feel it when your fingers get cut – always gives me goosebumps by just thinking about it!! I am VERY careful around this guy… :)

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Happy Letterpressing!