paperworld 2009 - diary 1

We exhibited to "paperworld", one of famous stationery show in the world from Jan 31 to Feb 3 in Frankfurt.

We were so overwhelmed by the exhibition center! Sooooooo HUGE!!
Actually, there are about 10 halls with 3 to 4 floors. Our booth was in Hall 6 (2nd floor), and it took about 10 minutes from the main entrance on foot.




Can you believe the numbers of exhibitors was over 2000? (Yes, it's true!)
Also, we are impressed by other exhibitors, especially famous companies had a big booth with amazing displays, with many staff members...

Although our place was really simple, it was our pleasure that many people could visit us.
We would love to say thank you to people who could find us.

(We were 1 of 2000 companies...!)




We produced almost 100 new products, and this was the first time to introduce them.
It was really wonderful that European people love Winged Wheel style stationery :)

I will introduce more about the show soon!

Rumi from Tokyo

paperworld, Frankfurt

We are going to Germany from January 30th to February 7th!

We will exhibit in a stationery show called, "paperworld" in Frankfurt.
In fact, this is the first time to exhibit to the show,
so we are a bit worried, but at the same time, we are so thrilled!





Since the show is the biggest exhibition for stationery industry,
we look forward to introducing our brand new products to many people.

If you have a chance to visit the show, we would LOVE to meet you at our booth at
B30 in Hall 6.2.

See you in Frankfurt!

Rumi and Maki

Happy New Year 2009☆

We hope this year would be full of joy and happiness for everybody!

Last week, we had a very slight snow here in Tokyo.
But, I guess we have a more mild winter than usual.
How's your country?

In our stores, many couples visit us.
They are looking for wedding stationery for their special day.
In Japan, the most popular season for wedding is spring.

We have a lot of wedding stationery, and have printing services
such as offset and letterpress.
In our stores, customers can feel and touch the texture of any cards they like.



Recently, many couples print their own family emblems
on the cover of their invitations and other wedding stationery.
(I think it's so cool!)



Let me tell you more about Japanese style wedding later.

Have a lovely day!

Rumi from Tokyo

Our smiley snowman card, winter 2008

Hello everyone!
Let us introduce our new greeting card, winter version, 2008.
Their smiles are so adorable, aren’t they?



The snowman design is beautifully letter pressed onto our original cotton cards, which are made at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Japan.
We had sent these cards to clients, and we got many great feedbacks, which made us so happy :)

Our two stores open until December 29th and will open from January 4th, 2009.
It is our pleasure that so many Japanese and foreign people visited our stores this year.
We would love to say thank you to our customers, who visited our stores and online stores. And of course, many thanks to you, who are visiting our blog now!

If you find a minute to say “hi” or “konnichiwa”, feel free to leave comments or e-mail us anytime.


The display of December in Osaka store

Enjoy your holidays!

Rumi and Maki from Japan

Season's Greetings

Hello all, I hope you are enjoying the sweet winter.
Tokyo is getting colder…
There is a myriad of twinkling Christmas lights creating a gorgeous atmosphere of romance around the oh-so-busy city!

Since we have a plan to exhibit in the stationery show in January (Frankfurt, Germany!),
we are extremely busy with the preparation.
Phew! No time to enjoy the Christmas lights. Haha.
But we don't care since this is the first time to join as an exhibitor, we are so thrilled with the big event :)

We would love to report the show in this blog in February.
Also, we are producing new products for the show, so let us introduce them to you soon.

Happy holidays to you all!


(Tokyo Tower)

Rumi

2009, the year of "moo!"

Hello world, I hope you all are enjoying the lovely season.
Tokyo is getting colder, and we can see so many gorgeous and sweet Christmas lights around the city. So romantic!
It’s unbelievable that this year has only one more month...!

In Japan, 2009 is the year of ox (cow).
This custom is based on the traditional Chinese astrology. There are 12 animal symbols, which begin with the Rat, and continue to Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Boar (wild pig). (And then it starts again from the Rat.)
Now, it's the Rat year, so the next year is Ox.

We made these cute new year cards. The theme is (of course!) “mooooo!”




Also, these are other new year cards. (They are not related to the topic, though…)



I hope you like our cards :)

Have a powerful weekday!

Rumi from sunny Tokyo

Winged Wheel workshop

Hi everyone, I hope you are all enjoying the lovely autumn.

We had a workshop last month in our Osaka store.
This time, our staff, Machiko introduced interesting stationery history (yes, it's fun!) and manners.

Have you ever seen or touched a real cotton flower?
Machiko brought it and explained the process of making the cotton paper.



At the workshop, all members made their own personalized mini cards using our cotton paper.
They selected a font, color and motif from our design book.
After 2 weeks later, they could pick up their cards at the store.
We are so happy that everyone really enjoyed our workshop!

Have a nice weekend!

Maki