Hello Sandwich Stockists

Hello Sandwiches!

I am sure you all know and love Supermarket Sarah and her amazeballs wall installations (above). And I'm so thrilled to announce that the Hello Sandwich Gift Wrapping Zine is now stocked in the Supermarket Sarah shop at SELFRIDGES! Wa!

I'm just about to send my second order through to Sarah so if you're in London and you'd like a zine, pop in Selfridges to check in a week or so!




Supermarket Sarah at Selfridges picture thank you very much Alex Loves.




In other exciting news, the lovely Kyoto bookstore Keibunsha are also stocking the Hello Sandwich Gift Wrapping Zine!

Thank you Keibunsha for writing this lovely review here:

東京を拠点に活動するオーストラリア人デザイナー／アーティストであるEBONY BIZYS。彼女のブログ、”HELLO SANDWICH”ではストレンジャーの視点から発見した東京の日常、そしてクリエイティブにまつわるささやかな情報が満載。本書は、そんな彼女が日本で 見つけた素材を利用したキュートなギフトラッピング法を披露したリトルプレス。テキストは英語ですが、図版入りでとても易しい内容。日本の素材を彼女の目 でミックスすれば、こんなにかわいらしいプレゼントのできあがあり。EBONY BIZYSのブログはこちら（http://hellosandwich.blogspot.com/）






And beautiful Nagoya bookshop On Reading will also stock my zine from next week!


Melbourne and Sydney-siders you can have a flick through the Hello Sandwich Gift Wrapping Zine at Mag Nation!

Or Melbourne folk can also pop into Third Drawer Down and have a flick through my zine!


The Hello Sandwich Gift Wrapping Zine is also stocked at:

Nook

Little Paper Lane

Perimeter Books

Uguisu

Newspaper Taxi

Little Shop of Handmade

Blackbird Corner

Little Jane Street

Sweets Workshop

Leeloo

Happy Boutique

Gosto - Design & Lifestyle

Peikonpoika


Thank you so much to all of my lovely stockists!

Love Love
Hello Sandwich
xoxo

Sunshine Park Workshop

Today I helped out at the Sunshine to you workshop at Rocket Gallery! It was such a lovely afternoon. Together we made a park out of fabric pieces from Sunshine to You, and paper pieces from Hello Sandwich HQ!

Kihara-san is super talented. Her beautiful zine was also in the Girls Zine book that Hello Sandwich was featured in. Kihara-san makes many beautiful products including garments, bags and these amazing picnic mats. She also screen prints her own gorgeous fabrics. You can see Kihara-san's full range of products here.

ありがとうきはらーさん！今日とても楽しかったです！


Here is a little video I made of the workshop.





















Adorable letter set containing seeds to grow vegetables!



The talented Nakamura-san made this bookshelf (and the above hut roof) from recycled timber. And at the end of the day he also made us all hotcakes!








ありがとうなかむらさん！おいしかったです！


I hope you all had a lovely weekend!

Love Love
Sandwich
xoxo

VOGUE Japan Style Blogger

Hello Sandwiches!

Happy Weekend (almost)!

The lovely team at Vogue.co.jp took me out to lunch today and invited me to blog (in Japanese - eeep! but with an English translation!) over at vogue.co.jp as a 'Style Blogger'. I'm so excited!

We are still preparing and setting up the blog but The Hello Sandwich VOGUE Japan blog will be live in just over a week!

Hope you have a lovely weekend Sandwiches! I'm going to see some exhibitions with some friends and I'm also helping out an artist with her craft workshop! I will take some pics for you.

Love Love
Sandwich
xoxo

Tokyo Signs

A few favourite Tokyo signs. Also loving this typography blog.

Love Love
Sandwich
xoxo

Tokyo Marathon

The Tokyo Marathon was on today. A very popular event. I applied to run in the 10km race but selection is via lottery and I missed out :( My last race was so much fun and I desperately wanted to run on the Tokyo streets, but it looks like I'll have to keep my fingers crossed for 2012. I went along anyway to cheer on the 33,000 lucky people who got to run today. I then proceeded to eat enough thai food for two people washed down with a gigantic beer. (It's a good thing I'm not in training!)

When I am in training however, I like to use runkeeper. If you're into running outdoors I can highly recommend it. The super amazing Joseph Tame also uses it. If you don't know about Joseph, have a look here. He is amazeballs! And for those of you who follow my twitter - I apologise for so many tweets while watching his live ustream today!









You can see some of the crazy characters that ran today here.

To all the runners - おつかれさま！

Love Love
Hello Sandwich
xoxo

Hello Sandwich Workspace in Nylon Korea

I've always loved seeing the creative workspaces of others! Kit just did a lovely post about inspiring studio spaces. Wouldn't it be lovely to have a work space like these!
My work space is quite mini-me Tokyo size, but the lovely team at Nylon Korea Magazine have featured it in their new issue (top workspace above).


This is the English translation:

1.Introduce yourself please (your name and occupation)
Hello. My name is Ebony Bizys and I am Tokyo based freelance graphic (print and book) designer. I also run a blog called Hello Sandwich


2.What do you do very first when you seat in front of your desk?
I always make myself a coffee from my espresso machine and turn on my Macbook pro to check my emails and some favourite blogs.


3.How long do you spend your time on the desk per a day?
Eeep! I usually spend quite a long time, about 12 hours.


4.What do you work on the desk?
I work on freelance graphic design, writing my blog, making zines, emailing, drawing, collaging, reading magazines, scrapbooking, writing letters and chatting on skype. My desk is also where I dispatch all of my Hello Sandwich Zine orders.


5.Two things that must be on your desk.
My laptop, and some cute masking tape. I also love to have fresh flowers if I can, to keep me inspired.


6.Favorite stationery brand
o-check


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ハローサンドウィッチ

Obento Lunch

Today's obento box enjoyed in the afternoon sun at my dear friend Hiki-chan's home.

The new issue of Tennen seikatsu magazine features bento boxes and is just beautiful.

Lately I've also been enjoying cooking western food from this website.