GUEST BLOGGER: Hijiri from Heart Fish

Hi again sfgirlbybay readers! It's Hijiri from Heart Fish. Victoria will be back soon with lots of inspirations from Thailand, I'm sure, and although I'm having so much fun guest blogging here, I can't wait for her to come back, and I'm sure you guys feel the same :) But please enjoy one more post from me today!

I have been working with types everyday, all day for a long time (well, that's what graphic designers do) and I just love it. I never get bored by it, I'm always playing around with it, always looking for it, it is the most important element on graphic design, I think. Lately, my love and passion for types went up 100 times more after I started taking letterpress classes, especially, wood types! So I wanted to share a little bit about my love on wood types today.

It definitely started with the Hatch Show Print (I know Victoria is a big fan also!) – this book was always around in my old agency where Victoria and I worked together, our boss Steve Stone had it around all the time and I always loved looking this book and when I moved to NY, I had to have my own copy so I can have it around all the time again.

The cover:



Beautiful Wood Types:



Hand carved woodblocks!



Here are some from the book – every page is amazing!



It took me a while to actually sign up with letterpress class, I was always interested, I knew I would sooner or later, and the time had finally come and I started my classes about a month ago, and oh my god, I love it so much! It's so fun to actually set types by my hand and print by my hand (after sitting in front of computer for more than 12 hours a day everyday) Each piece is different and it has nice texture and of course the impression – makes each print very special. Coming up with ideas is also so much fun!

I never got to see this many actual wood types before so this is very exciting for me and here are some beautiful wood type blocks.

My school's (Cooper Union) wood type drawer:





h-a-p-p-y:



Beautiful wood type blocks from The Arm via Flickr (Dan teaches my class and they also have letterpress workshops and letterpress studio in Brooklyn)






Wood Types I found at Etsy.

Letterpress blocks



Wood type full number set



HELLO



Some of the wood type prints I made:




I have been reporting my each class and prints I made on my blog on Mondays so please stop by for my class experience if you are interested. You can see my previous classes here, here, here and here. – and I have 6 more classes!

Thank you guys again for reading my post. Hope to see you guys here again in the future or over at Heart Fish. Thank you so much, Victoria, for having me!!