I can’t believe it took me this long to post about this project… but I am so happy to report about my Live Now project (click this link to see the project details) I participated!

I knew from the beginning I wanted to print something with wood types because you just can’t get that same texture on computer, I thought it’d be so special for the project… so I printed a quote from William Arthur Ward — “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; If you can dream it, you can become it.”

My wood type blocks are limited and so when it’s a long sentence, sometimes I don’t have enough letters…

so that I have to print some words first…

and then, set the type to fill in the blank space…

to complete the first half of the quote.

Second part of the quote, I had all the letters so I could print all at once.

After I printed these, I scanned them in, send it to Eric, and he took it from there — and it’s been up on the “Live Now” site since! Thank you so much!!

I actually printed a few more to share at my shop… if you are interested, it is available here!

Limited to only 20 sets :)

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I wanted to share another lovely website Randy and I launched recently: Suga Jewelry shopping site.

My friend, Suga wanted a very simple and clean website to showcase her one of a kind handmade jewelry and she also wanted to be able to sell them online so we’ve been working with her on this website… we are still working on some features, but overall, it came out really lovely, simple and shows her nature inspired work very well.

Homepage:

Store page: I love how she used branches and wood background. It ties everything together nicely, I think.

Product thumbnail page: I love this page. So clean, simple, very easy navigation, not overwhelming shopping experience (like some websites are…)

Product detail page: everything is made to order! Her work is so cute!

About page: you can find out more about her here.

It’s so nice to see it live and I’m so happy to get to help her and work with her! Please check out her website at www.sugajewelry.com :)

Congratulations, Suga-chan!

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Good morning! Hope everyone had a nice weekend…

Over the weekend, lovely Victoria, Randy and I finally launched sfgirlbybay! We’ve been working on this new site for a long time so seeing it’s actually live makes me so happy :) When she said “let’s go live” I felt like the wedding day finally arrived or something because we’ve been planning for a long time, making sure all the details one by one, and yes, it was stressful at some point when I had to deal with PHP and CSS madness, and of course it was such a fun process designing and awesome to work with Victoria (like old days! It’s really fun to work with her!), and the launch was just beautiful! We are still working things out here and there, but I think she is happy and she is getting lots of good comments from her readers and that really makes me happy.

Her new home. Very clean and I love the color scheme she decided to go with. It has a really nice feeling and makes me want to spend more time here.

I love how all the categories are organized by polaroid films! So cute and so Victoria.

and of course, her famous “Sunday in the City” has its own section.

and there are more nice features…

If you haven’t already, please go to www.sfgirlbybay.com and look around her new site, you will have a great time. Congratulations, Victoria!!! Cheers to you, your successful blog and many more years to come!!!

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Remember I posted about my iPhone wallpaper and the inspiration from Poolga? Well… I got invited and my wallpapers are up on their site today!! Aww I am super excited! Make sure to check it out from here and download them for your iPhone or just for fun! :)

Thank you soo much, Poolga!!!

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I have been working with Jana for a while on her logos and website – she is a great interior designer in bay area, just launched her new business / design blog called “Rooted in Style” and I am so honored to be a part of this exciting journey, thank you so much!

Logo design: Love the concept behind this name and her vision. We had a lot of ideas around the concept, it was fun to think and come up with different ideas. At the end, she went with more elegant and simplified version of “root” on the ground and also show a new life above the ground.

Her blog design: Her posts have been so inspirational! She featured about me on her first post, too, thank you so much!!

She also has an interior design studio and I got to design her logo, too:

The succulent flowers you see on her blog is coming from her interior design studio logo – they work nicely together actually – I love the background!

I am going to check out my letterpress studio today – I am renting one starting this month! Many more letterpress projects to share very soon!

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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!!!

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I mentioned that I’m participating this project with Samantha Hann at Maquette in the beginning of the year and it is finally live! It was a “Love” book project — Samantha asked 25 artisits and writers to submit a piece inspired by their idea of love and I was somehow included (THANK YOU SO MUCH!!) and she just published them as a book on blurb!!

Here is an amazing list of contributers:

Hannah Stouffer, Lilly Piri, Aaron Hogg, Lisa Butterworth, Dan Funderburgh, Samantha Hahn, Erin Loechner, Jesse Breytenbach, Kate Miss, Jessica Gonacha, Kelly Lynn Jones, Yasmine Surovec, Shira Sela, Matthew and Sandy Lynn Davis (Treatzone), Maditi, Amy Sahba, Ez Pudewa, Hijiri Shepherd (me!), Marisa Haedike, Lisa Congdon, Holly Becker, Kate Neckel, Katie Sokoler & Kate Bingaman Burt

The cover (by Samantha – picture is taken by her, too)

Thumbnails of some of the work inside:

and….. my work!

My copy is on its way right now, I can’t wait to see the real book! You can order yours here, just in time for Valentine’s Day, it’d make an amazing gift!

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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!

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I have been working on Wood Fire Woodie’s logo, card and website this year and I am proud to announce that the website has been up and running for a while now! It was so fun to work on this project just like their fun concept and unique product.

It is a moving catering truck that is designed after American old Woodies that are often times loved by surfers and have surf board on top of the roof – so you’ll see inspirations throughout the site.

If you are in Bay Area and need fun catering service for your party, check out Wood Fire Woodie!

Pat and Mariah have been so great to work with, thank you and I’m wishing you guys the best!!!

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I am over at sfgirlbybay again today! I am sharing my letterpress/wood type love with the readers along with Hatch Show Print book I love.

Please see my whole post from here.

Note: Today is the last day to enter the letterpress card giveaway.

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