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Design*Sponge at Home

Hijiri — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:57:16 +0000

Last night, I was so happy to open my amazon.com order — my pre-ordered copy of Design*Sponge at Home had finally arrived! Grace and the team had been working on this book for the last two years and it really shows their hard work in every single page! Amazing!

Love these chapter opener pages — behind the scene post was very inspiring, too.

Congratulations, Grace and the team!!

I know what I’m going to be doing for the next few days… :) Happy Friday and weekend, everyone! xo Hijiri

p.s They are giving away the book!

Everything Is Going to Be OK

Hijiri — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:47:01 +0000

My Live What You Love special edition letterpress print has been featured in Everything Is Going to Be OK from Chronicle Books… not just inside, but also in the back cover!

Page 81:

This book, as you can see from its title, it makes you feel good, confident, believe that everything is going to be OK :) It’s filled with lots of hope and optimism in a great art form from all over the world, just flipping through this book is an inspiration! Here are some sneak peeks… Enjoy!

Thank you so much for including my work, truly honored!!

1000 More Greetings

Hijiri — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:13:39 +0000

Our work was featured in 1000 More Greetings book!! Yaaay!! (The credit shows Hijirik Studio, the former studio name)

On page 87 — The Alphabet Greeting cards.

On page 98 — the Calendar cards. (will be back in stock soon)

Thank you so much for this wonderful mention! I’ve been a big fan of 1000 series, this means so much to me. Thank you!

Found Type: St. Mark’s Bookshop

Hijiri — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:45:32 +0000

I was at the St. Mark’s Bookshop the other day and found few types/type treatments I wanted to share.

This poster on the wall caught my eye. The End of Print. Love the type treatment. Looks like wood types…

There are a lot of hand-printed books in the shop, it’s awesome to look around. This book cover is 3-color letterpress printed.

and this book cover was really well letterpressed. (sorry for my iPhone quality photos..) Makes me want to work on a book cover…!

Happy Friday! :)

Basic Japanese Cooking

Hijiri — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:51:12 +0000

I received this cool Japanese cooking book along with many other nice things including a brand-new rice cooker (!) on Christmas from my parents-in-law (thank you so much!!) and I had to share because not only this book tells you how to cook all sorts of great Japanese meals, but also, the photography of the book is really beautiful. Just flipping through the book to see each page is like a treat for your eye!

Here are some pages… aren’t they pretty?

We are having a small dinner party this weekend and making some Japanese hot pot, plus we are thinking of cooking some of the appetizers or salads from this book :)

Happy Friday, everyone! and Happy Weekend!

Crafting a Meaningful Home

Hijiri — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:46:47 +0000

Randy got me this book called Crafting a Meaningful Home by lovely Meg Mateo Ilasco for Christmas along with many other things (thank you, love!) and I had to share how great it is! I am so very inspired and I think one of my new year resolutions will be to make something for our home :) The book tells you and shows you each story and project (27 of them!) and they are all so personal, touching and meaningful, just reading their stories is inspiring, but also you can make your own, too!

Few of my favorite pages…

All the artists/designers featured in this book is amazing! Lots of great talents and their meaningful home projects all in one book. Highly recommended! :) xo Hijiri

Creative, Inc. Book Party in NYC

Hijiri — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:00:45 +0000

Last Thursday night, I stopped by the Michele Varian to attend the Creative, Inc. Book tour party. I got there a little bit late so I don’t know how much I missed, but I met Joy and Meg and it was absolutely my pleasure!

I’ll share my iPhone / ShakeIt photos here :)

The lovely Joy (left) and Meg (right) :)

and my book got signed! yay!

Little Book of Letterpress

Hijiri — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:00:52 +0000

I am so excited and proud to tell you that my work and my studio have been featured in this book called “Little Book of Letterpress“! It is a little BIG book, filled with lots of amazing work from all over the world! It is so fun just flipping through :)

The cover has a nice impression, too.

And I have a spread! Page 174 and page 175.

It should be out everywhere in US and outside of US, too. You can grab a copy here or here.

Thank you so much, Charlotte, for including my work!! She also has a great design blog, I’ve been a fan :)

LETTERPRESS ~Select Designs from San Francisco and New York

Hijiri — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:59:07 +0000

I have a very exciting news to share… my letterpress work and my studio has been featured in this new Japanese book called “LETTERPRESS ~Select Designs from San Francisco and New York” — if you are in Japan, it’s going to come out this week on August 14th!!! ((If you are in outside of Japan, you should be able to pre-order from Amazon.com or it’ll be available at your nearest Kinokuniya or any Japanese book stores in 6 months or so, I heard))

I think I’m getting a copy soon, I will share some of the pages when it comes! The author, Miki-san is an amazing writer & person, I enjoyed meeting with her and showed her my work and my (new) space. She also took a lot of photos for the book, I can’t wait to see and read everything! She is covering a lot of amazing letterpress studios in SF and NY, I can’t even tell you how honored I am to be a part!!! Thank you so much!!!

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『LETTERPRESS ~Select Designs from San Francisco and New York』
Edited by Miki Usui (author) / PIE BOOKS / Y2310 / Size: A5 / Format: 210mm×148mm / Pages: 192 / Full color

Impressive

Hijiri — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:25:01 +0000

I have a great news to share today — my work has been featured in this awesome book called “Impressive –Printmaking, Letterpress and Graphic Design” by Gestalten! I could not be more excited to be a part! The book should be out all over the world now — if you happen to see it at the book store, please take a look or grab it (you will not regret) — really great design book I’ve seen in a long time!

Here is my page! Page 96 to be exact. Next to Sesame Letterpress page, how exciting!

***and some sneak peeks of the book***

Yay for my friend, Tota Press:

Studio on Fire:

Fortress Letterpress + Design:

The Paper Nut:

LOVE their work — by The Caseroom Press:

Stéphane de Schrevel:

I have been her fan — Ophelia Chong:

Mike Burton & Cranky Pressman:

Mike Burton:

I wish I could share every page with you… 240 pages filled with printmaking, letterpress, graphic design goodness!

I am so inspired, thank you again so much, Gestalten editors!!