As I mentioned, I am off to Boston and Vermont for a wedding… I am actually on the road right now! Thanks to my iPhone, I can blog from a car ride :)

Just wanted to wish you a happy weekend, hope the rest of the week is filled with inspirations!

I took this picture in my neighborhood, I was just drawn to it when I walked by, the dotted numbers and big white flowers in tin cans… It wasn’t staged or anything, but it spoke to me and it looked conceptual or styled for a photoshoot to me… Don’t you think?!

I will be back on Monday!!

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So awesome! First saw it here, I was blown away! Looove the concept. and the font is actually very rounded and cute :)

iQ font – When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo.

Wednesday morning inspiration… I am leaving tonight for Boston and then Vermont for another wedding. I have so much to do! Wishing you all a happy Wednesday!

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A new addition to my alphabet greeting cards — H is for Hello!

I am printing more, hope to have A to Z as Stephanie has asked… :)

I already printed wood type H and Hello! in yellow a while ago, I just had to print the second color brown… setting the plates on the base:

Adjustment to do. and yes, to get to the perfect position, there would be mess-ups.

They never get to go anywhere so I am sharing them here… :) Sometimes it creates an awesome art!

and here is the final product. Comes with matching 100% cotton envelope.

Available here!

Hello Tuesday… please be nice to me…

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I can’t believe it’s my 7th edition now… thank you so much for all your support! I printed a lot more this time with lots of new summer inspired colors, I am so proud of each one.

Here we go…. type setting.

Adjust the placement and impression. This time, I made a little stronger impression :)

I always start with yellow. It’s easy to go to next one (always orange) without having the press clean so much. Yellow one is the most popular one, too. (The yellow poster/print was featured at Apartment Therapy! Thank you so much!)

Mixing orange. This time, the orange is more summery fresh sunkist orange! I quite like the freshness. Check it out here.

*”H” has lots of textures!

Mixing hot pink… 6th edition was so popular that I had to print more this time.

I always love the pink press. So cute. Hot pink one is available here.

*and “U” has a dotted line… :)

and… I thought maybe purple this time… started mixing pretty purple…

On the press. Looks good :)

printing away… limited edition of 40.

and here it is. Available here.

The classic red. It’s actually redder than ever. I wanted to make sure it’s solid pretty red.

Available here.

Nice texture throughout.

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((day 2))

Started with gray ones. I guess I didn’t take pictures! Click here for the gray ones. This time, it’s a little more warmer gray.

Printing the light blue. The 6th edition sky blue looks a little tiny bit different so I decided to call it differently. This is why I keep editions because I could never print them in the same way! Even within the same edition, each print is different :)

Light Blue:

and inspired by summer, ocean, water… I wanted to print something different so I started to mix the colors together… and ended up liking this deep blue-green, printed limited edition of 50. Please grab them if you like it :)

Deep Blue Green:

and this is also new… yellow green!

Mixing, mixing…

I love this color. Very lively.

Yellow Green:

I also printed black ones, there are a little bit more black left from the 6th edition so I didn’t post pictures here, but it’s available!

Which color is your favorite?! :) Hope your week will be filled with what you love.

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While I’ve been getting inspirations for vintage patterns, I also have found some cool vintage goods that I can use for my new office… (we are switching rooms this summer, setting up new office space very soon — hope to show some here!) I need a major re-organization and my shop stuff keeps piling up… so as we are getting new shelves, desks, etc. and I need new old stuff to not only decorate the office room, but also to make it function… and here are my finds I want to share :)

Vintage Sun Lamp:

Vintage Golden Yellow Organizer:

Staplers:

Industrial Galvanized Metal Boxes:

Vintage Office File Box:

Happy Friday!

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Today is my Dad’s birthday!! Happy birthday, Dad, we love you!!!! :)

Posted under Inspiration, home

OK, I just lost (well… left on the street) my umbrella from Muji. I always lose them no matter how much I am careful not to… (sigh)

So when I saw this Pitter Patter Umbrella, I had mixed feelings:

a) I want it!! I need one anyway and how cool is that to look at all these types in the rain!

b) wait… I’m gonna lose this anyway so maybe I should get cheaper plain umbrella…

What do you say?!

(images are from veer. Fist saw it at we love typography)

I’m adding it to my wish list for now…..

Posted under typography, wish list

This morning, I saw MadeByJulene (Julene Harrison)’s amazing work over at Design*Sponge and I was blown away. Especially, this San Francisco piece… How gorgeous! Love the lettering, love the landmark art, love the frames… This made my day! (and I think this is the place)

She does custom papercut pieces, I found many more awesome ones over at her site.

They are all so great! I love it.

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I am always drawn to vintage things (like letterpress press to begin with), its value, its nostalgia, and its beautiful pattern (if there is). They are priceless. I am getting inspirations for my next project and so I have been keeping my eye out for pretty vintage patterns, I thought I would share them here.

Awesome fabric pattern from reprodepot.com:

Folk Art Stoneware Mug:

Vintage glasses with white and black flower design:

Vintage high ball glassware:

Vintage staffordshire soup cup and saucer:

Still gathering some more…. :)

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We stopped by Chelsea Piers Batting Cage on Randy’s birthday (I didn’t try… but he did!) and this insert token area caught my eye. Love the red and the blue combination.

The left side is baseball only and the right side is softball only.

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Mr. & Mrs. muse salt and pepper by Jonathan Adler. Perfect for a fun wedding gift. I love his work, makes me happy all the time, the package design is always fun, too.

Cute!

How fun is it to have these on your dining table? :)

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