Good morning :) Hope you all had a nice weekend and are ready for a new week! It’s going to be September… so fast… I didn’t like the heat and bugs bites (oh, I hated them!!!), but when I think about the summer is ending, I miss it already…

Anyways. I printed 3 more alphabet greeting cards and they are available now at my shop :) Here are some behind-the-scene photos as usual!

Mixing ink… I always think about if the word has a color, what color would it be before printing. Mixing pretty sky blue for…

C / Congratulations! I think sky blue is nice, fresh, happy and very celebratory for any occasion. Printing wood type “C” and the plate at the same time.

1st color printed.

Moving on to next… mixing pretty green…

for G / Get Well — this wood type “G” was a special one, has lots of textures! Hoping this lively green makes your loved ones feel better…

1st color done.

and moving on to the 3rd one… mixing nice orange…

for A / Anniversary :) I thought of red at first for the love related anniversaries, but rethought and decided to go with orange — can be sent for a shop anniversary, a blog anniversary, a work anniversary… any kind of anniversaries!

Setting wood type and the polymer plate, ready to print.

I like the orange, the 1st color printed.

2nd day — the brown color day!

Setting up the polymer plates. The border and “is for”.

Adjustments, adjustments, adjustments…

until it’s in exact spot! :) Print away…

and here are the finished products :)

C is for Congratulations!:

G is for Get Well:

You can see the wood type “G” texture more here.

A is for Anniversary:

This letter “A” has a very nice texture, too!

Hope you enjoy.

More cards to come soon! :)

Posted under letterpress, studio news

Stopped by Michael Jackson Tribute event at Prospect Park yesterday.

It was filled with love and energy!!!

R.I.P MJ.

((I was so far away from the stage and this video might not show well, but they were all going crazy up there…))

*The event was hosted by Spike Lee with DJ Spinna.

Posted under NYC, Park Slope, events

Last night, I went to see this film about advertising called “Art & Copy” — as I was majoring advertising design in my art school and worked at an advertising agency for 6-7 years, this was pretty exciting to me and it was a true celebration of the creativity behind the big ad campaigns.

and YES! Creativity can solve anything!!! (I love that. I might have to make a print for that…)

All the casts are my heros so it was so awesome to see them talk about what they think. They have more screenings coming up, if it’s in your city, please go check it out! If you think advertising is an eye sore, this film might change your mind… :)

Happy Friday!! (I had a late start this morning as I had a doctor’s appointment…)

Posted under advertising, movies/plays

Spotted on brainstorm’s Flickr account. Fell in love at first sight.

I love some colored leaves… awesome details!

Thursday morning inspiration… have a great day :)

p.s have you enter the Live What You Love print giveaway yet? It ends tonight! GOOD LUCK!!

p.s.s Silver and Gold Cake cards are now with free shipping within US and to Canada! :)

Posted under art

I am loving this font called Phaeton from Veer. You can design something classic and elegant with just this one font — would be so great for wedding invitations or restaurant menus etc.

Look at these little cute icons of people! Yes, this is included in the font. Fun!

A little tryout… :)

Posted under typography

First found at we love typography, read it at shoutpedia, these clover types by Vladimir Koncar are making me so happy this morning! Truly inspiring. Thank you!!

There are a lot more; Beer Caps Type, Cactus Type, Paper Clips Type….. everything is SO GOOD, check everything out from here.

Posted under typography

Last week, I went to an opening party for AREAWARE — design to go ‘temporary’ design shop (they are open until September 26th at the Port Authority Bus Terminal if you are in NYC area.) and I really enjoyed looking around the shop, listening to good music, and chatting with my friends! Fun times, fun times…

I snapped a few pictures of things that caught my eye for inspirations to share here at Heart Fish…

Colorful letterpressed journals and travel journals:

Cool water bottles:

Eye catchy city guides from Wallpaper*:

and I couldn’t help it — the cute dachshund pillow was staring at me and saying hi!! aww so cute. Maia would like that :)

Comes in key chain, too. (couldn’t find dachshund one, though)

I “heart (pump?)” NY tee.

Red Dot Tenugui — This is typical Japanese traditional patterns, but it looks so fresh and cute with all the modern designed things around it.

Black and white office supply inspired paper weight, pen holder, card holder:

Gorgeous piggy banks!

These are so cool. Office supplies designed and made out of wood.

A wooden compass!

Wooden radios!!

There are a lot more cool and fun products, you can look around their online shop and see more :)

Hope you had a great weekend, I am printing a big letterpress job all day today, wish me luck!!

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Today’s my brother’s birthday! Happy birthday!!! We love you!!!

Posted under Inspiration, design

Attention all artists and creators! The founders of Charmingwall (oh how I love their website…) will open a new original-art gallery on October 1st… with your art!! (If you participate, that is)

“Each month, Six by Six Gallery will exhibit hundreds of original works of art – every single one of them on a six-inch square canvas. This small and consistent size allows the gallery to show the works of a large and diverse group of artists each and every month. It also allows collectors the opportunity to curate their own selection of artwork at an identical size that will look great when hung together.”

To participate, all you have to do is to purchase an Artist Submission Package at www.6×6gallery.com, create your original art on the canvas and submit!

I think this is a great opportunity for anyone, everyone who has a passion and vision (yes, ANYONE can do it), I am thinking of participating so if you are interested, please let me know!

Happy Friday!!

Posted under art

It happened to be an awesome week for me and my work, here is another interview I did for modernemotive for their great series called Paper Cuts. It was fun answering all the questions, it really got me thinking how much I love what I do! :)

and I am giving away one of my Live What You Love prints!!! Just visit modernemotive from here and comment on the post. Also, tweetering gets you one extra entry!

I like how she quotes from the interview and put little hearts :) So cute.

Thank you so much for having me, Adele, it was my pleasure answering your great questions!

Make sure to enter to win!!

Posted under studio news

I mentioned that Christine from LAMA was in town… and she wrote about her trip to NY and her visit to DUMBO with me on her lovely blog! (You see me as a tour guide there. aww) Her blog is really cute and cozy, from her shop updates to her inspirations behind the scene, I love visiting her blog, makes me happy :)

Read more here:

Thank you so much, Christine!!! It was so great to see you!!! xo

Posted under studio news