Home Series: Doughnuts

The Home series, themed on things that accompany you when you relax at home, was renewed in September 2023, and now you can choose from a total of 15 types. This illustration shows a take-out doughnut being eaten at home. The card and envelope are made of a combination of comfortable papers, hoping to offer comfort to both the writer and the reader of the letter. The card is made of a paper that is thick and firm, but has a smooth surface that is very pleasant to the touch. The corners are rounded to add gentleness. The envelopes have a strangely moist feel to the touch. The crisp white ground, like a freshly washed sheet, is embossed with a pattern that looks like a wavy cloud, and the specifications are such that you can enter a peaceful world even before you open the envelope. I wanted to express relaxation from all angles, so I took a different approach in creating the design from the other series. I made a rough sketch of about 3 cm on a notebook that I usually use, and then enlarged it to make a clean sketch. When the designer (Taishi) doodles in the corner of the notebook, he can relax his mind and heart, so he used this method to create all of the designs in order to capture that feeling. At first glance, the drawing is a simple black-and-white line drawing, but the doughnut is actually puffy to the touch and the black lines are raised. We wanted the letter to have a little surprise, so we made the printing process a little more special. After hand-printing each silk-screened letter, a special powder is applied and heated to emboss the inked area, causing it to bulge out.