I knew this day would come someday… (I am really grateful to my customers!) I printed Live What You Love Special Edition in poster size! It was another fun thing to print, working with linoleum is always nice :)

Please enjoy the behind-the-scene photos here…

Using the tracing paper on top of the letter “O” area where the heart would be and draw the heart shape…

Trace the heart shape onto linoleum…

and curving time!

On Vandercool press — after inking, curve any excess area off so it prints clearly.

Take the first color gray poster…

and print on top — I didn’t have to adjust the placement this time :) ((aww so cute… gets me every time…))

and pink!

Here are final products…

Live What You Love Letterpress Poster Special Edition with Blue Heart:

Live What You Love Letterpress Poster Special Edition with Pink Heart:

Hope you like them!

and I am wishing you all a happy and fun 4th of July weekend!!!

Posted under letterpress, studio news

I love my cup of coffee every morning. I really do. Sometimes, I wake up just so I can have a fresh cup. It is my big motivation and inspiration everyday :) We actually love this coffee from San Francisco, called Blue Bottle Coffee (we used to live right around the corner from their Hayes Valley kiosk) and we just couldn’t have anything else after drinking that coffee everyday and now that we live in NYC, we actually subscribe their coffee twice a month ever since we moved here. (oh, I actually have blogged about it before! I will keep saying this over and over.) Yes, it is THAT good. And it is so worth waking up for.

Anyway. I’ve been finding some coffee related cool items here and there so I thought I should share my coffee love to you today <3 Enjoy!

Hello Darkness My Old Friend print (via scoutie girl):

Heart Coffee Scoop (found via etsy storque):

Love Coffee Mug:

Strong Coffee Poster:

hmmm these things are inspiring me to print something new… with coffee love in mind :) Something to think about… (sip sip)

Posted under Inspiration

I saw this room image over at simplygrove’s flickr photostream and I had to ask where this print/poster is from… she says “Ikea“!

and sure enough, I found it at Ikea website:

I think I will get one! Thank you, Kirsten!

*another great Ikea poster I saw over at To Be Inspired here… time to make a trip, I guess!

Posted under NYC, design

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…

Yellow:

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! :)

Posted under letterpress, studio news

This week, I saw some more “I Heart” things…

(via Bloesem)

(via swiss miss — available here.)

And did you know this is all coming from an advertising campaign for New York City?! (I tried to look for the original commercial on YouTube, but I couldn’t find the right one…) I didn’t know that until I saw the movie Art & Copy — pretty amazing to think about how ad campaign effects soo many things even 30-40 years later!

Happy Friday, everyone!!

Posted under advertising, typography

The Italic Poster. By Eivind Soreng Molvaer. So. Clever. I. Love. It.

(via welovetypography / Public School)

Posted under typography

Hello! I am back from my trip to Washington D.C. — it was such a fun trip, it was so fun that it is so very hard today to even get up… but I do have a lot to do and so when I saw this new poster from Ork Poster “The Brain,” I immediately got drawn to it — I need the brain right now!

I’ve been a fan of Ork Poster, I have 3 of their city neighborhood posters, their typography design with the city and now with the anatomy series is always so great.

The Brain posters available here.

Posted under design, typography

This morning, I am inspired by the ABCs by Honey & Bloom. I love how all the different colored alphabet is overlapping together very nicely… very harmonically…

I love the letter Q. That is gorgeous.

Available at Honey & Bloom shop.

Posted under design, typography

OK, this poster is so up my alley, I don’t even know how to express my feeling!! I love typography poster from BlueTypo’s Flickr photostream. It is available for download and print, how generous and how awesome!! I of course downloaded it. immediately.

((swoooooon))

Posted under Inspiration, typography

PLINC Behemoth R poster from House Industries — I love that it’s just one BIG alphabet, how cool would that look on the wall! Bold and nice shaped alphabet is all you need :) I actually would love one for my new office…

PLINC Buffalo A:

PLINC Emperor B:

They have more (not all alphabets, though, unfortunately…) but these are my favorites. Click here to see more!

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