Just a quick shop update announcement… more Live What You Love posters are in! Please grab them as they are very limited in quantities… (it takes so long to print each one.)
Pink:
I hope your weekend will be filled with LOVE! :) Happy Friday!
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Last year, I printed the LWYL special edition in black with red heart… and this year 2010, I printed the special edition in… one of my favorite color combinations, gray with hot pink heart! I really had fun printing as the heart always makes me happy :)
Type setting without letter “O” — yup, there would be a heart there…
Adjusting the placement.. I love the accidental typographic art. So great.
When everything is set, just print away…
Next, set the curved linoleum heart in the place in between where the letter L and V were placed.
Hand mixed hot pink on the press…
a pink heart :)
Even though you thought you placed in the right place, you always have to adjust around until you have it right.
and there it is!
Live What You Love Special Edition 2010:
I hope you enjoy the process and the new print!
p.s I printed more orange, too… It had been out of stock for a while… but it’s back :)
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Hi, everyone. I am back! So good to be back, I feel refreshed and energized! So much to catch up, but I don’t feel overwhelmed (yet) :)
Just wanted to share this real quick — my work has been featured on Fossil website under Fossil. Life. Style — What We Are Into section! I am so flattered and honored to be included in these amazing group of people/work, thank you so much! When you have a second, I recommend clicking around… you may find great stuff!
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Just a reminder, today is the last day to shop at my etsy shop for the holidays! (well, until tomorrow 3pm EST to be exact – for US shipping addresses) I will do FREE upgrade to Priority mail between now and then so you will receive it before Christmas! Happy shopping!
*Picture is from Marisa Fontana. How lovely! Thank you, Marisa!
((I have been meaning to build a gallery of Live What You Love prints in your house for months… next year’s project for sure! If you have your Live What You Love prints/posters pictures, please email it to me at contact [at] hijirik dot com.))
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Just wanted to let you know that I have printed Live What You Love 8th edition and they are all available at my etsy shop now. It is a little bit smaller edition since I only had 1 day, but some new colors to enjoy :) Hope you like them.
This color is new… I call it “cerulean blue” — I love how it came out!
Hot off the press:
And here are all 7 of them.
Red is a bit darker and richer this time and light grey is really warm this time. I printed green first time in a long time (since the first edition)!
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It was time to print more Live What You Love posters! I printed total of 6 colors in this batch and they are available right here at my etsy shop :)
But as usual, I wanted to share some pictures from the studio…
Type setting — look how beautiful the wood type blocks are! I am in love every time…
on Vandercook press:
Adjusting the placement of the letters — I love the overlapping part, I wanna make art by using this technique next time…
And here are the posters! Each poster is very limited in quantity… as this is really a lot of work…
Grey:
Red:
See the texture from the wood types?
Black (I never printed it in black so this is new!):
Brown (new as well):
It actually looks great with hard wood floor and brown furniture around the house.
and last but not least, Royal blue (this is new, too):
Thank you always for looking! :)
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Hello, everyone! Hope you had a nice weekend. It is a bit slow start for me this morning, just got back from the Philly trip last night…
Just wanted to let you know that the NerdLike.com is featuring my Live What You Love print and they are also hosting a giveaway! If you are interested in winning this print, please go to this page and comment what “live what you love” means to you :)
Thank you, Jazzy, for hosting a giveaway and good luck, everyone!
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Just wanted to make a quick announcement that I have found some of the poplar Live What You Love prints after cleaning around (yes, they were buried…) — brown ones and special edition (mounted!) — please grab them as I won’t be printing these for a while…
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Just a quick announcement to let you know that the new Live What You Love posters are now available!
Type setting… it is like a puzzle. Lock all the letters in place.
I actually hadn’t printed in red before so I printed the red one this time.
I printed green ones again, this one is more like yellow-green.
and the popular yellow ones are back in stock.
They are limited to 10 posters each. So hurry if you are interested :)
Hope you had a nice weekend!
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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 :)
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 :)
and this is also new… yellow green!
Mixing, mixing…
I love this color. Very lively.
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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