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Studio on Fire

"Well Hello There!

We provide both Design Services and Letterpress Printing
with a distinctively tactile presence.

Our unique workspace marries design, art and craft.
It’s like having cream and sugar in your coffee.
We bring a keen synergy of design sensitivity and production
knowledge to our projects. We are backed by full, in-house
modern letterpress printing capabilities.

We collaborate with creative firms, printers, and individuals
to produce work with a tactile and distinctively modern edge.
Whether the design work is our own or yours, our expert knowledge
of letterpress technique brings award-winning projects to life."

They have a very pleasant looking website and their portfolio is impressive! You can visit the studio's blog called BeastPieces. Cute name huh. They blogged their works they designed and printed and describe the process of getting them printed. They really flaunt their craft for letterpress. Really love their craft quality. Perhaps I can print my stuff from them and have it shipped here! ;)

Love, love, love

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Vahalla Studios

I like to give my eyes some therapy. Looking at their things nicely letterpressed and silkscreened is such a great pleasure. Printing techniques in Singapore is so limiting. There's no letterpress specialists or anything!

URGH i so wanna go over to states and be a real graphic designer!!!

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Letterpress & Typewriters

I am going crazy looking at prints that are printed by letterpress machines. The texture is just so nice and authentic! The blots of ink, maybe, or the rough stamped effect after printing for very long. The effect is just something I really adore and prefer. It's not that I loathe glossy prints and solid prints. They can be nice for some sleek things but having textured prints/type is somehow more natural looking and it brings me away from the fact that everything is too technologically produced this modern age.

Using the letterpress machine is also similar to producing prints technologically. But modern printers does not give the same effect. They only give you lines or try match colours when your ink tank runs out. These days when I try to make those rubber stamp effects, either I have to do it manually(stencil and paint or anything) or do in Photoshop. Might not be 100% satisfying though if we talk about photoshop.

Ah I dont know. It's like doing when I do illustrations, I prefer drawing first and scan them in. But this technique may not be a friendly technique when it comes to digital colouring in Photoshop or Illustration. A Wacom tablet is the solution but I somehow still prefer unclean, inconsistent lines.

Hmmm... Perhaps a typewrite for my birthday would be awesome! I wanna make a typographic book out of it! Would be so fun and experimental!

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Ice Cream Social

I badly want ice cream today and chance upon Ice Cream Social in this website Sarah Alkaff discovered the day before yesterday, '100 layer cake'. A website that showcases amazing and beautiful weddings and concepts. It's lovely to see how weddings concepts can vary depending on the couple's taste and personality. Some wanted 70s look while some catered to just one hue or colour. Very interesting!

So this Ice Cream Social is build by two designer best friends, Mary and Jenn. They are best friends since age of 16 and went to Rhode Island School of Design Pre-College program together. Ice Cream Social specialises on visual communication on printed media and their primary affection is weddings. People can definitely count on them for really nice, hand-made cards or other wedding collateral because they provide full service creation from inception to completion.

I wish this similar dream and achievement can be made with me and one of my best friend, Wani. We've been friends for almost 10 years now. She has the marketing strategy and necessary social network plus some design bits and I can do all the crafty stuff needed!