Here’s a selection of the samples I received from Tokyo in the last few weeks. I am especially pleased with the wooden products. The silkscreening and the color finish are impeccable. I also enjoyed how the designers combined my animals to create new patterns like the fish and the octopus. Shown: blackboards and mini photo albums by You Power, Japan.
My «Lovebutton» cards and stickers that I ordered from moo.com are here and ready for distribution. The minicards are very versatile – I use them as business cards, as gift tags, as bookmarks or simply as portfolio samples. The jellybeans were delicious too. White ones were coconut flavored, the red ones, sour apples and the pink ones tasted, well, pink (bubblegum or rootbeer or…).
And here you can see how the stickers turned out.
It look like the New Year has started off with bang and I’m off running. Lots of drawing to do in these first weeks, including some for Valentine’s Day. Yes, the love fest is in preparation and it’s even late for those of us in the card business. My new collection, inspired by my interest in artist designed plush toys, should available on moo.com shortly. Also my favorite fishing spots have finally iced over and you can find me spending a few hours every weekend at the Boucherville Islands park with my kicksled (the same one that I drew for laglisse.ca, you remember, the poster wth the caribou) and fishing gear.
I change business cards like I change clothes – every season a new outfit! And it’s a lot cheaper than in the old days of offset printing. This season I printed 100 4×6 inch postcards through Gotprint.com and cut them up to achieve the clothes tag size cards which is smaller than the standard 2×3 inches. Six different colors on one side and six different animals on the other. I also simplified my job description to read «illustration» which works in English and French (cards have to be bilingual in Quebec). And, voilà, 600 glossy business cards advertisng my website www.julienchung.com! I like fishing so I placed a very small fish under my name. If you would like a set, please e-mail me at julienchung@hotmail.com and include your postal address.