"Ainafun"

Some days you can't find any inspiration and you're just empty. Those days are when you should just let nothing control your head or work. Play, enjoy, smile, laugh and just work :)
I had one of those days yesterday and after some hours (in a freezing studio) I ended up with this very personal print of how I see myself in a way. I smile a lot, laugh ofter, do funny things/jokes, saying just pointless things.

And this will also be a gift for a very special Aina :)

Event tomorrow "Letterpress: Forward thinking"

For every person interested in Letterpress this it the thing not to miss tomorrow! I'm very excited and I believe it will be many nice talks and interesting people to meet. It all happens at St Bride Library in London. I will let you all know how it was an share some images from the day.

Letterpress video

I feel very lucky for knowing other with an interest in Letterpress, and most of them are very nice to share what they find with me. I really love that! This video from A Design Mafia shows a Letterpress printer using a press that works the same way as one of the ones I use. I get so inspired just by a short video like this.

Thank you Aleksander for sharing it with me :)

Pantone Formula Guide

You can say a Pantone fan is both a Designer and a Printers friend. They are expensive to buy, but they will and should last for a long time. There are different Pantone fans for different purpose. The one I love is a Formula Guide (one for coated and one for uncoated) which shows which colours to mix and how much of each to get to one specific Pantone colour. And the names/code of every Pantone colour. But you can't get the CMYK or RGB values of any of the colours.

I love it for the fact that is shows a range of colours (and I love colours), it is simple to understand and it works! A good example is to tell you about my experience the first time I tried to mix the colour brown. It turned out everything else but brown. It sounds maybe a bit silly and you may think I'm stupid, but it was not that logical for me. Most colours I know more or less how to mix, but with this I'm 100% sure how to get one colour that I want. If you haven't seen one, please do. It is amazing!

Christmas card 2

November is here, and Christmas is even closer. I've started thinking about Christmas gifts, and it brought up another idea for a new Christmas card. Big in size, but still with a playful twist to Merry Christmas is Norwegian ("god jul"). The main colour for Christmas is to me red, a nice proper red. That is why I kept it in pure red.

Detail images of the card.

After printing the whole card in red I had to play a bit more with colours. I created a limited edition with green and silver.