I finally found some time to present you my best wishes for this new year. May it be creative and inspired!
2015 ...
difficult, among the chao, to see the beautiful things that happened this year. The benefit of having a blog like mine is to be able to read what I wrote the years before and see waht I wish last year, and the year before... and before...
2015 will have been the year of the first Walter magazine, thanks to you, and the letterpress calendar that is still a success. 2015 has been a lot of travels too, Portland and Seattle for Provenance project, Switzerland, Corsica, London, Barcelona… and beautiful projects that I look forward to sharing in detail. It also have been the year of confirmation of Niépi success, the gluten-free magazine I realized with my wife. This will mostly been a new chapter opens on reaching the very creative city of Arles and the magnificent street I love to shoot and share on Instagram.
2016 ...
This will be the year of Mr Cup Creative Studio! I am currently installing it and I'll finally have a dedicated place. Freelancing and working from home is sometimes exhausting, having a "place" was an important phase. And above all, I have a place where I could receive intern and other graphic designers and creative to work together.
This will also be the year of the realization of Walter magazine, No. 2 is underway and we are a bit late because of the time devoted to the calendar. But it will happens, and we may still have need your support to finalize the project. A launch party is planned in February in Paris ...
And in 2016 it will be the 10th anniversary of this blog! It was in 2006 that I had the idea of "graphic exchange", to put everything that inspires me. He'll have to find a way to celebrate this, right?
Thank you all for your messages and your support. Thank you to show that the passion and creativity, sharing and inspiration have an important place in our society and that social media, are not just numbers, but many people interacting with each other! Happy New Year 2016!
Best of 2015
I haven't found the time to do an ebook as last year, but you can found the "best of 2016" on my Pinterest or Walter's Facebook !
The letterpress calendar is printing
The letterpress calendar is a project I launched in 2011. Each edition consists of 12 cards, each with its color in reference to the season. For the 2015 edition, in addition to hire more designers than last year, I decided to try printing "copperplate" on the cover the foil edging of 200 copies. If it improves the quality of the project, this also increases the costs. So I decided to use kickstarter to finance the project and expand brand awareness.
I proposed a black print for each pages keeping in mind the possible print multiple color if funding was a success. Print 12 cards in different colors requires more work, time, and therefore money than a simple black print. It is truly an improvement for the final product in my point of view. I consider offering this as an additional step in the fundraising campaign, but I finally decided to ask your opinion : black or color ? If the funding goes very high, I could have do 2 colors print (black + color), but this is much more expensive (in letterpress, it is one ink at a time…).
Many people who have discovered the calendar with this version is therefore expected to have a black print, while the "regulars" contacted me to tell me their disappointment to not have the colors. It's hard to please everyone, and if I could I would do two editions to satisfy everyone. The vote showed that 61% want the color, against 39 for black. I would have preferred to 90/10, but that is not the case. The calendar will be printed in 12 different colors to satisfy the most. The cover of the normal edition remains in "black and white".
Also, I have choose a little darker colors for the june and july month, here comes the final colors. (Please consider seeing it on screen and letterpress printed will be different !)
2 people canceled their contribution to the project, and I confess that this makes me greatly sad, although I understand it. I hope you once you have the calendar in your hands, you will be proud to have participated in this project.
Here come the plates, I will be happy to have them in hands tomorrow and can share printing of the cover while I visit Studio pression !
