Category: letterpress

I Blank Card by Zoe

Posted on by Hijiri

I thought that’d be fun to see what people draw on my “I Blank Card” so I asked to send the pictures in when people were buying this card and Zoe just sent me her card – awesome!!

Zoe says:

Kind of a private joke between me and my other half… its the bear from ‘The Simpsons – Trash of the Titans’ sir loves-alot, the bear who loves to love. Wanted to do something that was personal.

I haven’t seen that Simpson episode, but between 2 of them, this is hilarious, I’m sure.

Thank you so much, Zoe, for sharing! Love your drawing!

If you send yours in, I’d love to feature it here, it’s gonna be a fun gallery!

Custom Birth Announcements

Posted on by Hijiri

My friends Yuki and Anthony had a beautiful baby boy on January 4th (CONGRATULATIONS!!) and I was really happy to get to work on the birth announcements for them!

The preparation:

Printing first color (brown) on Vandercook Press:

Second color (blue):

I printed about 100 announcements.

It’s on its way to them right now… hope they’ll like it! I’m learning a lot every time I print something, which is great so thank you, Yuki and Anthony!

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Today is a Chinese New Year — It’s a year of Ox! Happy Day, everyone!

Wood Type Poster Project

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Rhian in London and I have been talking about this project since December last year and we finally agreed on this and I got to print with wood types — came out so nicely that I wanted to share it with you here, too.

My cheat sheet. Because all the letters are mirrored, it gets confusing when you are typesetting them so I printed this and brought it to the studio. It worked! No misspelling or upside down words.

The first 6 lines � there wasn’t enough “W”s so I had to break the line.

On the Vandercook Press:

The last 4 lines — I had to set it from the end of the first 6 lines.

and end result…. here!

I’m so happy with this! Rhian seems to be very happy as well!

Live What You Love 4th Edition

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Thank you so much everyone who contacted me about this print… the 4th edition is here!! I printed more this time so it won’t run out so quickly, but I can only print so much at once (physical reasons – my arm is dead today by printing and carrying papers around) so they are again limited!

In the making of:

Green is back:

Red – I printed 50 of them for Valentine’s Day!

Black. The classic.

Gray – printed on peal white color this time (off-white, antique white) and it gives different feel, very warm.

Yellow on pearl white color.

and Orange!

Please visit my shop and look around! Thank you!

*Today is the last day to enter the giveaway!!!