Happy New Year :: Don’t Forget to Take Note

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, and surely we are all now looking forward to the New Year 2017. I like to sit down and review/revise old resolutions. How much do your hopes change over the years? Perhaps leaps and bounds aren’t what we achieve, but change is inevitable and something has happened. Let’s hope for the best or better yet let’s realize what can be!

TYPESETTING
DIRTY HANDS MAKE ME HAPPY

Christmas Gift Guide : Graphic, Paper, Product Design Enthusiasts

I like to collect my ideas and share them this time of year, as I am also getting ready to buy for loved ones. The gift guide this year is more about the philosophy or bright idea behind the product itself. Nevertheless, I think graphic designers, paper enthusiasts, package and product design lovers, lifestyle trenders and the like will find this guide useful.

Not in any particular order.

BULLET JOURNALING : WEEKLY LOG LAYOUT
PHOTO VIA CHIC STUDIES

Caro Babbo Natale

Kids enjoyed having the chance to dress-up in apron and gloves and play tipografo i.e. printer for a letterpress demonstration yesterday. I helped kids get their Santa letters started and taught a thing or two about letterpress and Gutenberg. In no time, with the occasional backward b and fantastic typographic mix of lower and upper case lettering, kids jotted down ideas.

L-R CHILD CAREFULLY STUFFS SANTA’S BAG,
TIPOGRAFO, WRITING SANTA LETTERS
AT CONFABULA LIBRERIA MONDOVì

Lettera di Natale

Pop up laboratory for kids set for the 4th December at Confabula bookshop. Children and I will write our “caro babbo” i.e. dear Santa letters for the season followed by Christmas stories.
Rsvp!

POP UP WORKSHOP LETTERA DI NATALE
"CARO BABBO” MONDOVI, ITALY

Bon Ton :: Classic Wedding Invites

Maria and Fulvio have officially tied the knot and I had the privilege to print up their wedding invites. In the design process I got to learn a thing or two about etiquette; wasn't the Emily Post type, but the Italian version Donna Letizia painter, illustrator, writer and perhaps better known for her commentary on how to be polite.

IL SAPER VIVERE

Carattere in Cucina Letterpress Workshop

TIFFANY BLUE - HAND MIXED

Carattere in Cucina letterpress workshop round-up. It was fantastic!
The participants were all mostly (graphic) designers or with a serious penchant for paper. They dove into their projects and came out like semi-pros.

Cut It Out Valentines

Happy Valentines. Hope yours was spent imagining ways to say I love You. 

XOXO
PAPER FOLDED ENVELOPE/HEART