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We had a fun collaboration event at our Tokyo store last Monday.
The guest speaker was Mr.Kiyo Matsumoto, an owner of
letterpress 77, and he owns his studio in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Kiyo(right) and our boss, Masaki(left)
As you can imagine from the company name, Kiyo is an expert of letterpress,
at the same time, he is also a designer of his letterpressed items
such as calling cards, greeting cards and wedding invitations. 
About 20 participants who are working as designers, printers, and retailers enjoyed his talk, and exchanged the design trends between Japan and Germany.
This is our collaboration card with letterpress 77.
Kiyo designed these adorable designs for us,
and we made the cards. Which is your favorite card?
For me, since they are all cute, it's hard to choose one! :)
You can check his lovely studio and designs here.
Have a lovely weekend!
Rumi
Konnichiwa, world. It's Maki from Osaka, Japan.
Our store display in Osaka has changed. I love it!
I hope you love it, too.
Now, it’s a rainy season here in Japan.
Since we have humid and gloomy weather recently, it may be better to chill out at home.
Well, I guess it’s a lovely season to write a letter to someone, though. (That's a good idea!)
We will have a workshop on June 28th at Osaka store.
The theme is “personalized envelope.”
Participants can choose the paper type, ink color and the motif from our wide variety of design selections.
After that, I (as a product developer :) will coordinate and finish the designs for each envelope.
We print the patterns, and die cut into the envelope shape, which we call "diamond shape" as shown in the picture.
There are two ways to make your special envelope more creative. It looks different when you fold the motif pattern's side into inside or to outside. (like the image of the photo below)
Both ways look so fabulous.
By the way, the shape of the envelope without folding looks like a unique flat fish, "ray".
Don't you think so?
As I like its lovely shape, I decollated the "ray" envelopes at my room.
I look forward to the workshop.
Does anyone live in Osaka City??
Maki
We had a very famous festival, called "Kanda Matsuri" here in Tokyo.
Since our head office is in Kanda area, I took some photos just in front of my office.
It was so cool!
As you can see, they wear the same uniforms and carry a "mikoshi",
portable shrine.
About 100 portable shrines gather for this festival, and
people parades through the streets of Tokyo.
If you are interested in this festival, I'm sure you can find some movies through the Internet like You Tube.
Japan has so many festivals in many places.
Since Winged Wheel's designs are very much inspired by Japanese ancient designs,
you can feel "Japan" from our cards and envelopes.
If you are kimono lovers, I recommend our series 510. (please check here.)
Have a nice week!
Rumi, from Tokyo
Now, we can see a lot of cherry blossoms (sakura) here in Osaka.It's so beautiful!In Japan, we have a custom to have a party under the cherry blossomsto enjoy the sakura season in mountains or in the parks.
Let us introduce our new series #321.Have you ever seen such adorable envelopes?For the paper, we use translucent paper, which make them unique.We focus on the beauty of translucent colors and creature designs as patterns.(There are 7 pretty pastel colors.)
In our Osaka store, pink (flamingo) and yellow green (pig) are popular.What is your favorite? You can check all items here.Have a nice week!Maki, from Sunny Osaka
It is getting warmer here in Tokyo.
The forecast says the cherry trees will bloom on this weekend.
I can't wait!
Finally, 2 new kinds of #700 series!
The series designs, which include motifs such as the octopus, ladybug, peach are our best selling cards in our shops.
We've just begun to sell our 2 new designs.
They are our new messengers :)
chameleon and tarsier (monkey)
Chameleon is famous for changing colors of its body for protection, but one of the purposes is to communicate with each other. (Lovely!!)
Now, he/she is trying to change colors from green to pink. What is he/she trying to say??
I don't know if the tarsier is popular in your country, but it is very popular monkey in Japan.
Because it has big eyes, we call it, "megane zaru, (glasses monkey)" in Japanese.
Look at its fingers! So "kawaii"(cute), right?
Have a great weekend!
Rumi, from Tokyo
It is getting warmer here in Japan.How is your contry?
We've just updated our brand new series # 510 on our online store. Yay!
The theme of this series is "Japan", and we used the vibrant colors for this series, which are usually not used in these traditional motifs.This contrast is so chic, and it is so Winged Wheel style ;)
In Japan, it is very common to celebrate the flower season in spring.So, one of the series, the ume card is the best for this season."Ume" means plum in Japanese.Recently, I wrote a letter to my friend using this card as a thank you note.I love the color!
Speaking of ume (plum), we have traditional pickled food made from unripe green plums, called "ume-boshi."If you have a chance to eat them, please be careful since it is super sour!!In Japan, it is used in various dishes as side dishes with breakfast, rice balls for lunch, etc.
Enjoy the lovely spring!
Maki from Osaka
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
Hello everyone, this is Maki from Osaka.This time, Iet me show you my brand-new calling cards.I always bring two types of calling cards, one is for my business, and another is for my private use.Since I wanted to make unique ones, this time I chose "rabbit" cards (#602 series), and printed by letter-press. In our stores, there are many cards for printing, and I selected pure cotton cards. So, my cards have unique, but elegant taste.My favorite!
One of our customers ordered "camel"(#602 series) for her calling cards.Since she always goes to business trips worldwide with a lot of luggage, the cards are really matching with her image.
Finally, we have just opened our new website...!
So, we are very excited!
Of course, customers can purchase our items directly on the website.
If you have time, please visit the website.
http://www.winged-wheel.co.jp/en/index.html
In this online store, we introduced some of our standard series, and
their tastes are different each other.
We hope you can find your favorite one...
Enjoy!
Rumi and Maki
Hi there, my name is Rumi. I am working at a chic stationery store, called "Winged Wheel" in Tokyo.I am a sales/PR staff of Winged Wheel.We've just opened our blogger page! Yay!!So, if you are interested in stationery/paper such as greeting cards, envelopes, and lettersheets..., please check out our page at http://www.winged-wheel.co.jp/en/index.htmlAlthough we can only accept online orders in Japan at the moment, our online store will be open to all international customers in September!
Winged Wheel Omotesando(Tokyo)Our items are all made in Japan, and are 100% our original.
Actually, we have two stores, one in Tokyo and one in Osaka.In our stores, you can find more than 1000 items, so we would like to introduce many products to the world!I will write with my colleague, Maki.She lives in Osaka, and her job is to plan/create the Wigned Wheel products.Sometimes, she will tell you about the story of each item, and also the culture of Osaka, where is the exciting city as well as Tokyo.
Thank you for reading.Have a lovely day :)
Rumi
