About a month ago, we went to Porter House Restaurant for NY Restaurant week and had a great meal :) I saw their logo and the card and of course I took it home because I thought it was great and caught my eye immediately. It looks like it’s printed on wood, but it is a paper, but look at the beautiful wood stains and burned-like wood texture — that would have been so cool if it was a real wood and the symbol is actually burned in, but hey, everyone has a budget, right? The card is on really nice and thick stock so the quality is so there.

and then, I was looking around the lovely Louise Fili Ltd website (I admire her work soo much!) and here it is! The Porter House design! It was done by Louise Fili. No wonder it looks awesome.

I’d love to get my hands on restaurant designs — anyone opening a new restaurant?! :)

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I hope you had a wonderful Christmas time with your loved ones… I had an another great Christmas with my family in low in Massachusetts, we came home with tons of goodies (thank you so much!) and now, we are off to Japan! Just wanted to wish you all a very happy and exciting new year 2010! Thank you all so much for visiting Heart Fish, being with me and being here for me all this year, I will be getting lots of pictures, inspirations, ideas, cool and neat things while I’m in Japan, I can’t wait to share them all with you! I will be saying hi sometime in next year from Japan… until then, have a great holiday season and happy happy new year 2010!!!

*Picture is from my last day of letterpress printing — I printed business cards for Randy :)

p.s while I am traveling, I am having a winter vacation sale so make sure to check it out :)

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Last week, I finally printed my business cards that was one of my main projects to do in this class and I am so excited that it came out so great!

I brought a few printouts of the business card so I can use it as a template. I’m doing 2 colors here so I’m going to start with the red.

Put double-sided tape on the polymer plate and…

place it on top of the printout to match exactly where it is.

Take the printout with the plate and run the press….

and the plate sticks exactly where you want to print! I love this trick!!

Printed on bunch of yes, chipboard. Run it twice top and bottom so I can have 8 cards on one sheet in 8.5×11.

OK, the second color, black next. Using double-sided tape, place the plate on the printout exactly where it should be.

and run the press to place the plate.

and print on the first sheet… here it is! I printed about 320 cards!

I trimmed them and here are the final result. I have 3 versions… I couldn’t decide which ones yet… but I love them so much – the impression is again so wonderful.

What do you think?!

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I was at Verlaine in Lower East Side for a happy hour with my friends last week and just when we were about to leave, we found their cutesy cards so took them all home! So eye catching and I love the vintage illustrations!

Back side is simple:

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I meant to go to “Shady’s Waggery” to look for Maia’s new harness yesterday, but the store has turned into this awesome antique store called “The Upper Rust“! (I’m not sure what happened to the dog boutique…)

The selection in the store is so great, you don’t have to dig through everything to find the one, it’s all there! Price wasn’t too high, either, you would think it would be expensive, but it wasn’t.

Bowling pins! I like the wired basket, too.

I like these antique boxes, especially the typefaces:

Their business card — everything in the store was labeled with this same tag. I think it’s cool idea, it fits the store and it’s unique and memorable.

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I guess I just missed the Olympic Opening Ceremony… I woke up relatively early (well, Maia wakes me up early), though.

This looks spectacular! I have to catch it on TV today for sure.

Anyway, besides the Olympic starting, my Friday morning inspiration comes from these unique business cards:

These are so great! You can see more here, here and here.

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It’s been a couple of weeks since LAMA store launched. I think it’s going so great – so nice to see it on the press at few places including Daily Candy!

I also got to design a business card and a thank you card and here are the final products:

Thank You Cards:

Today’s Candy SF:

yay!

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I’ve been working on Wood Fire Woodie project and the business card is ready now! It’s printed on actual wood! It looks so special, I am very happy with how it came out.

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