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

wallpaper* invitation

The party was held at Baroni House in Milano.
My friends, Chiara and Lucio could send us a lot of photos about the party.
(I wanted to join!!)



Woo, it looks so gorgeous event...

So many luxurious hand-made items!




And...look! Our invitation was introduced at the party! Yay!!


We are so happy that wallpaper* chose us to make the luxurious invitation.

Grazie mille! to my friends, Chiara and Lucio, and Nishino-san who is a washi crafsman and could support our collaboration.

And, "arigatou" to everyone who love Winged Wheel :)

Lots of love,

Winged Wheel team

Winged Wheel x Wallpaper* magazine!

Hi there, we would LOVE to share our exciting news with you!

We collaborate with the famous design magazine in the UK, "Wallpaper*"! Yay!
The wonderful project was to produce luxe invitations for their reception event at Milano Salone. Milano Salone is a famous design exhibition in Milan, Italy.

Ta-dah!



The theme of Wallpaper at the exhibition was "hand made", so for their invitation, we have selected 100% cotton paper which are made by a Japanese washi craftsman.
We also made fabulous envelope! The edge color of the envelope is painted by hand by our expert staff members.


After we shipped the paper and envelopes, the team of Wallpaper* could make the incredible invitations!! We love their design! (Especially, I love their embossing logo. Woo, so cool!)

The beautiful letterpress printing by Mr Smith's Letterpress Workshop, London

The reception was held on April 15 at the Brioni Palazzo, Milan.
Luckly, my Italian friends, Chiara and Lucio joined the event, so I will introduce some photos at the event next time!

Enjoy your lovely week :)

Rumi from Tokyo

Sakura, sakura☆

Hello all, it's Maki from Osaka :)
How are you? It's a bit strange weather here. Still cold in spite of mid April...!

Have you ever heard the Japanese word, "sakura"? It means cherry blossoms, and is the symbolic flower in Japan. We enjoy the season of sakura in early spring.(From late March to early April). It's a typical Japanese custom, but people really love to have parties under/near the trees. (Me, too!)

Since it is mid April, the season is getting over...
(Woo, I'm already miss sakura!)
Anyway, I took a photo of sakura, Hope you can enjoy, too ;)



And, this is a photo from Rumi in Tokyo.
People are enjoying the parties. Sounds fun!


During the sakura season, we can see a lot of "sakura-pink" color all over the city. I saw many sakura themed show windows, and even foods such as sakura cake, cookies, and doughnuts at department stores. It is one of my favorite seasons.

Have a nice weekend!

Maki

DAILY CANDY!!

Last month..it was a busy busy month since we had a lot of orders from foreign countries. (Thank you for all customers!)
We are so happy our cards are loved by many foreign people...!

One of the reasons we got so many orders is that the famous stylish website in the US, "DAILY CANDY" featured our new calling cards! Yes!! Please check our article here.

It is so interesting that the most popular design of the cards is "wisteria."




I personally love camellia, and it is the second popular design.
You can check the all designs here.

Many many Arigatou to you all!

Rumi

Our new cards, series 610 was featured on d*s!

One of the famous design blogs, design*sponge introduced our new cards! Yay!!


You can read our article here.

We are so happy that we have so many inquiries from all over the world.
About series 610, please check here.

One more news, we have started Twitter, so please follow us♥
We are going to tweet about our items and also Japanese trends ;)

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Domo Arigatou!

Rumi & Maki

Our new card, series 610

Konnichiwa, world!
We are thrilled to introduce you our brand new series #610!

For the paper of the series, we held many tests for two years to produce the hand-made paper. And finally we produced the beautiful cotton paper.

As for the designs, we were inspired by vintage Japanese woodblock pictures in Meiji Era(1868-1912).
These are really subtle and graceful!
Hope you like them :)



You can learn some more stories here.

As for the series, we offer printing service for calling cards.
And, we have selected the beautiful color inks for each design.

So if you are looking for your calling cards, please don't forget to check out this lovely series, too ;)

Arigatou,

Have a nice day!

Rumi and Maki, (from Tokyo and Osaka)