A design + analog printing studio in Los Angeles

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design + letterpress printing in Los Angeles, California

Greylin: business cards

Here are some final pictures from the latest completed job. 1000 cards complete and done!

Lessons learned:

  • Cutting is crucial
  • Measure 4 times, cut once.
  • Get more plates. It's worth it.
  • I need a better paper cutter. 
  • Double sided is harder than it looks

Specs:

  • 220 Lettra, Flourescent white paper
  • Double -sided with blind chevron deboss
  • Design by Angie Choi at Greylin 
s'wonderful in wood

Here's the latest posters I made inspired from the Jazz standard tune "S'wonderful." Soon, there'll be a series of prints from the same inspiration source.

Jazz is one of my favorite styles of music with lyrics so pure and simple and it can sometimes whisk you away to a different time. The lyrics are easy and instrumentations not distorted by the digital. It's analog and pure. Letterpressing and jazz are parallel to me. They come from an earlier time unspoiled by the confusion of media, it's a form of communication motivated with heart. To master it, one has to understand the ins and out of the instrument, be it a press or a trumpet.

It used to be all so simple. All so s'wonderful.

s'wonderful trio S'wonderful tri s'wonderful bed Untitled

 

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