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It all started with a quote from one of my tutors in High School "keep it simple stupid". Some days all I want is to print something cute, simple and with the little "extra" to it. This card has possibilities beyond my fantasy, only your imagination is the limit to create a card that will but a smile on the lucky receiver's face.

Half or a pint?

Why London-people seem to assume girls only drink half is still a wonder to me. But I keep getting the question and I'm tired of it! I'm sorry but: "why have a half when you can have a pint?"

Happy Easter everyone :D

Maybe love?

Spring is said to be the time for love. Not that I would claim there is a special time for love. A couple of weeks ago I had a huge clean up in my letterpress prints at home. During this I discovered this small and simple print, with a single line of words. Originally it was printed for a possible extra with a wedding invitation for a friend. But later to be found not right for that purpose. Since that I forgot about it existence. 

Take it as it is, one simple line of words. "Maybe love will find us again for there is always tomorrow."

Thank you card

I printed this card for some time ago but added my logo on the back last week and remembered then that I hadn't posted it here yet. I was inspired by a friend who help me collect my letterpress type to do a thank you card.

Saying thank you can be as simple as the design on this, clean and straight forward!

Small card

It was during a periode where both me and friends had a bit of a down time in mood that I had to do a small piece of card to get myself to smile! This is also one of the first print I did with only my own letterpress type!

Play !!

Been so much going on lately and first of all I've been tired and not in a good mood at all!

Today I had to really try and get myself to enjoy the day, so I played with letterpress ;) here is a bit of it!

Cover for book

I made this small book with a cover for my friend's birthday. It says: "My favourite drinks", and is printed with letterpress in a random pattern. This is my first try on printing a pattern very random, and I'm quite happy about it. I am actually so happy that I will for sure do more of this kind of printing. The cover is printed in two of her (my friend) favourite colours, and I printed the second colour while the first was still wet with great result.

She likes it, and that makes me even happier about it :)

Follow up on the cover for BA publication

Just a small image to show how it looked with all the covers folded on the private view for the BA Graphic Design show "Treadmill" at London Met. Seeing it lying there I was happy about the result, it looks nice and the colour is so amazing!

Cover for BA publication at London Met

I did learn so so so much today, about work, others, limitations, my expectations vs others, perfection and creativity!

You will not believe me, this is printed on a press too small for it :p but somehow it ended up with resultat that is good enough! This time it was not about what I wanted and liked only, but what London Met wanted too! It was a nice day where I got to test out a few things on the press.

The cover will be folded around where "N" is in climbing. Inside will be a publication about the show and the BA course in Graphic Design.

Hope you like it, and if you want to see it drop by at London Met, commercial st on Tuesday (15th June) for the private view ;), limitied edition of only 90!

My craziest and biggest project

I said yes to do this cover for a broadsheet information paper almost for a BA exhibition (and for the course in general) at my old uni here in London. I thought the idea was to have a title and a small quote or something, but it ended up being one huge quote (not long, but huge in size)! 17 words is set in a 16 line wood type, not exactly sure how big that is in cm, but at least 10. I'm done with the first lock up in a way, but it needs to be locked up on the press, and that is a challenge. Not sure if you can see how big it is on the image, but next week after I hopefully have finished printing it I will have all the measurements for you.

James Dean, my favourite quote !!

Most people know that I'm a big fan of James Dean, and have all (three) movies he got time to make before he was in a car accident, which cost his life. I’ve always loved this particular sentence he used to say, and have wanted for so long to create something with it. After setting it up and printing it, I feel good about the fact I finally got to print it. But at the same time, I feel that maybe some day I’ll reprint it even bigger! The reason for all the extra white space on the left side is for a personal message or reminder to you or the one you give it do about focusing on living your life to the fullest every day.

I've printed the quote in two different colours. Green because it's my favourite colour, and orange because it's sort of a colour I feel has this dreaming feeling, and positive attitude that this quote represents for me.

James Dean had the future ahead; he lived by his own quote and so should we. I’ll always keep it close.

Always someone’s birthday

Don’t think anyone will disagree with me on the fact that there is someone’s birthday almost every single week (that you know of).
The idea for this card came when a couple of my friends were going to celebrate their birthdays together. All I wanted was a simple but personal birthday card to give them, but slightly different than the ones you can buy. 

The birthday card was my first project on an Adana press. All previous work has been produced on a Stephenson Blake proofing press. The Adana press is small and offers a fun work rhythm, and the only thing that makes me like the Stephenson better is the easiness of hand inking while you are printing with one colour on the press. I found that hard to achieve on the Adana. That is my experience at least :)

The art work is a combination of wood and metal type, in two different fonts. The card is printed on several different papers,
a range of white and yellow, and also on a black cardboard paper. Considered the fact that I want to offer at a later point a range of different birthday cards I only have a small limited number of cards printed.