Setouchi International Art Festival 2

Konnichiwa, it's Maki from Osaka.
I wrote about "Setouchi International Art Festival" last month on this blog,
and I will write a little bit more about the festival.

The festival has some art projects, and one of my favorite projects is "Old house project".
You can find a lot of old houses which are decorated by artists in Setouchi area.

In Teshima island, I found an old unique house which a fisherman was used to live.


China plates are wrapped with colorful furoshiki (Japanese wrapping cloth).


I really loved this lamp, it's very Japanese style and washi is used as material.



Can you see the lovely patterns of washi paper?
I couldn't help taking a photo!

Although this old kitchen is not used for a long time, it has changed into the fun art.


Hope you can enjoy my photo :)

Maki

Setouchi International Art Festival in Japan

Hello world! It's Maki from Winged Wheel Osaka :)

Although it's been so cold here, but is getting warmer little by little.

Last year in October, I visited Setouchi International Art Festival.

I used Shinkansen, train, bus, ferry, and special boat to go Setouchi area!

(It took 2 hours from Osaka.) But it was worth going...!

Setouchi has a lot of beautiful islands, and the event

was held in many areas around Setouchi.

Calm ocean and nature...

Setouchi is one of my favorite places to go trip.

I've visited there several times, but I was so overwhelmed

by the number of people. Soooo crowded!

I saw many foreign people as well.

(There are some famous architecture designed by Tadao Ando.)

The highlight of the festival is to visit 7 islands and a harbor.

You can see a lot of modern arts there.

The most fascinating place to me was Inushima Island.

There is a unique museum which used to be a 100-year-old copper making factory.

The chimney is about to collapse..!

Woo...LOVE this art, inspired by a spider's web :)

I will tell you more later!

Have a nice week!

Maki

Our unique and cozy factory

Hi there! It's Rumi from Tokyo.
Hope you enjoy the lovely season :)

Since our parent company's headquarters and factory is in Osaka, I sometimes visit there.
It's always fun to go there to see some machines, and also I look forward to seeing our colleagues.
(Many thanks, Maki for your support!)


There are more than 50 special machines for our original cards and envelopes.



Although we have only 8 staff members in our Tokyo office, more than 120 people are working at the Osaka office/factory. So the enviromnet is so different from my office!


One of my favorite places in the factory is staff cafeteria. (food is yummy!) Also, I love the big painting there. Can you see?



In the painting, it says "connect the world!" And there are some international people at one big table, and having lunch together. It always makes me smile :)
Sometimes I have a coffee there looking at the picture. It is the most relaxing time.

(making scene of the painting) pretty big, right?


I will show you more about our factory next time.

Happy Halloween!!

New series! #710

Have you checked our paper of the month club, September?

If not, please check it out :) paper of the month club

Now we are preparing to introduce our new series #710 as one of the standard series on our website. And we have introduced the series in advance in the paper of the month club(September) as limited assort pack version.


The theme of the series is "landscape." For this fun series, we have designed the unique landscape freely beyond time and space.

assorted pack of 6 cards and 6 envelopes ($15)


6 designs- snow mountain, dinosaurs, ocean, amusement park, city night view, moon landing
Which one is your favorite?

We have printed the designs with 2 color letterpress and 1 color offset printing on thick cotton paper (300gsm).

We accept orders by October 1, so don't miss this opportunity! :)

"House of Light" in Japan

Hi world! I'm Maki from Osaka :)

Since I'd love to introduce some cool places in Japan, this time I will write about one of my favorite places, Echigo-Tumari.

Before the hot summer ends, I went to Echigo-Tumari, Niigata prefecture. (It takes about 3 hours by air plane and car from Osaka.)

The area is famous for contemporary arts, and there are about 200 kinds of arts in the area. One of my purposes was to see the famous art, "House of Light" by James Turrell.



"House of Light" is a beautiful house, which we can stay and can feel and touch the art directly. (It's the only art in the world, and I stayed there for one night! Yay!)

Inside the house, I spend fabulous time! By lying down on the Japanese tatami mat, and I saw amazing sunset. At night, as the rooftop windows open, lots of stars appear just in front of me.... (Woo, I wanted to stay more!!)



For other arts of James Turrell, there are some in Nao Shima (Nao Island) and The 21st century museum in Kanazawa.

I also found this fun art which was created by a Cameroonian artist. I love these cheerful colors!


Have a lovely week!

Maki from Osaka

Adorable personalized seals♥

Have you checked our adorable personalized seals? They are limited items since they are introduced at our "personalized stationery of the month, July." Ending soon!

You can choose monogram or creature designs.
I personally love creature seals :) So lovely!



I am going to order ocean designs, which are fish, turtle and seahorse, and will print my name on them. Also, you can choose one color, turquoise or dark purple. (Hmm...both colors are so cute. I can't decide..!)

I'd love to use them for letters and gift wrapping!


We will soon update the new bespoke stationery of the month, so please don't forget to check it out in August. You can check the items here.

Have a nice weekend!

Rumi

Winged Wheel's new factory!!

Our factory has moved to a new place in Osaka!
It's a brand new factory, and our 120 colleagues are working there.


I personally love the chimney of the building. (WW's logo!)


Entrance (Haguruma envelope is a name of our parent company.)

When you enter the door, many colorful envelopes will welcome you!


I will tell you more about our new factory soon!

Rumi