Category: events

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Posted on by Hijiri

Wishing everyone a Happy Valentine’s Day and a long weekend!! This weekend is a special weekend for us, we got engaged on Valentine’s Day and we got married on President’s Day. (But actual date was on the 19th so this President’s Day Monday is not techinically our anniversary yet)

Here are some lovely images from my Flickr favorites just for you!

via carolinabena:

via danske:

via Addixon777 (he is one of my favorite robots):

via paper pony:

via thefakebakery2:

via hine:

and my “LOVE” book arrived!!

we have a red spread! (right side is by creativethursday – so cute!)

I wanted to post my favorite pages, but I realized that EVERY page is my favorite!!! That’s a lot of pages to post so just my page today. You can still buy yours here.

Happy Weekend, everyone!!!

AIGA | NY Presents: Tina Roth Eisenberg

Posted on by Hijiri

Last night, after my work (I’ve been freelancing at the agency in soho this week) I stopped by Apple Store to see Tina speaks… yes, she is the swissmiss!

When I got there, she was talking about Swiss designs (I have to visit Switzerland – seems like full of cool designs!), and then she talked about coming to NY and her work that she is proud of, and then about her blog, swissmiss – she was so inspiring, oh my god, I am so glad I got to see her speak!

Tina and her developer John, answering questions from audience.

and this is where she gets all the cool stuff from!!

I was really inspired, thank you, Tina!!

Apple and AIGA are having “Pro Sessions: Design Remixed” every month (check your own city – SF, LA, and NY), and next month in NY, it’s Hillman Curtis!! Ohhhhhh, I have to go to this one for sure!!!

Design by the Book Party

Posted on by Hijiri

I got to go to the Design by the Book Party last night at New York Public Library! I have been watching the project since the day 1 and I thought it was such an awesome and inspirational project and so when Grace announced that there would be a finale party, I was there already!

wooooo cupcakes from Baked Bakery! It was YUM!!

Grace from Design*Sponge:

The final episode screening – I’m sure it’ll be available online soon if not today!

The artists – amazing talented people!

The wood type book that Mike Perry was looking into – I’d love to look at the book, too.

Pages from his zine…. I got one myself!! as well as the CD by Clear Tigers!!

Julia Rothman‘s work. LOVELY.

Rebecca’s inspiration (Moontree Letterpress) – old maps.

Her letterpress prints – I want one of each, please!

(these work were in the glass case and the lighting from the ceiling created all these dots on the pictures…)

Also, Lorena Barrezueta‘s and John Pomp‘s work were so so inspiring – couldn’t take pictures, but got to talk to them and they are so nice, so creative, and they are so passionate and hard working people, I could tell right away.

It was a great party and I was very inspired.

Happy Friday, everyone!!

Year 2008

Posted on by Hijiri

This is my last post of the year and it is my 400th post! This blog is definitely one of the best things I started in 2008 – my new year resolution was to keep motivated as I was starting my freelance journey – and I couldn’t do it any better way! Year 2008 was a big year for me; moved to New York, started freelancing on my own, Maia the dachshund became our new family, got to work on lots of cool projects (my client, LAMA is nominated for Daily Candy’s sweetest things 2008!) and my letterpress class was also one of the best things I started this year along with my etsy shop! I don’t think I would have accomplished everything without my husband’s help of course, and all the inspiring talented people in the world, and you guys!! Thank you so much for visiting here, every “I love your blog/work” message really melt my heart and helped me keep motivated and really inspired me so thank you so much!

A year seems so short, but so long, it is weird… and although I couldn’t cross off all my list of things that I wanted to do this year (always a little things that takes forever to accomplish) but I am happy with everything happened in 2008 and where I am right now.

I wanted to end my last post of the year with some great typographic images that have been on my flickr favorites throughout the year so please enjoy! (some are just links due to their copyright protection on their photos)

From bogtrykkeren:

From pfraterdeus:

From Depression Press:

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This LOVE.

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This Wood Types.

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From sycamore street:

From StillBlooming:

From arm79:

From Olive-Route:

From ben syverson:

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This H is for hello!.

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This art, squared.

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This R.

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From ATLIW:

From yesh801:

From vial3tt3r:

From keri:

From atelier domino:

I will come back with my new year resolution – it is going to be a wonderful and exciting year! I have a lot of fun projects lined up already, I can’t wait to get started and share them with you here, too.

Wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year 2009!!!