Are you always on that damn phone? We can help!!
Come to our workshop on 4/25 and learn how to make your own traveler’s journal that holds up to 3 notebooks. You also will get to make your very own notebook inserts using risograph printed paper! If you’re looking to be on your phone less, notebooks are a great way to de-center your phone and use more physical media. It also looks super cool :)
The deets:
📌4/25 from 3-6 pm | Hosted at Riso Studio Arts in Chinatown
📌Make your own custom leather journal cover, and fill it with 3 notebooks, put together by you!
📌$75 for one person or $10 off the total when you sign up with a friend🫂
You can sign up online at risostudioarts.com/events - limited spots available!
#louisecarmen #travelerjournal #workshop #losangeles #riso
Missed our last journal making workshop? Lucky for you, we’re doing another one!!
Join us April 25th at 3 pm to make your very own Leather Traveler’s Journals. Included in the workshop:
📌Make a custom leather journal cover w/ Mercedes Books (@laylaa.creates & @almost_tattoos )
📌Customize your own risograph notebook inserts w/ @artofjun
Perfect for a creative hang with friends or cute date💕
💸$75 | $10 off the total when you sign up with a friend
⏰3 pm - 6 pm • 📍Chinatown
🎟️Limited spots available! - register via link in bio or at risostudioarts.com/events
So so stoked to share that I finally have a flash book to look thru!! This features 100 of my designs (some never seen before) that I’d love to tattoo. I am so grateful to my wonderful partner @laylaa.creates who designed and laid it all out for me, and hand-bound it all together. This was so much work and I can’t be happier with how it turned out. For now, I won’t be selling this (guys it was so much work haha), but if you’re at @rodeotattooco you can take a look at it and pick out some designs to get tattooed :)) Special shoutout to @artofjun and @risostudioarts for helping us screen-print the cover so effortlessly🤩🤩what do you think?!
Production notes for the print nerds:
Perfect Bound with Hardcover
Three Book Ribbons
Cover: Plastisol on Bookcloth
Text Block: Various Papers
Tattoo Stencil Ink on 20lb Lift Off lemon
CMYK on 65lb Natural White
Transparent Vellum
#flashbook #tattoo #losangeles #latattoo
Journal workshop recap!! Such a great turnout, thank you to everyone who signed up🫶shoutout to the amazing @risostudioarts and @artofjun for hosting us, it was so much fun!! Let’s do it again soon?❤️❤️
#diy #leatherjournal #workshop
Get crafty this Valentine’s Day! 💌
Join us this Feb 14 at RISO Studio Arts for a Leather Traveler’s Journal–Making Workshop.
✨Make a custom leather journal cover w/ Mercedes Books (@laylaa.creates & @almosttattoos )
✨ Print your own risograph notepad inserts w/ @artofjun
✨ Add charms + personal touches (provided by @stabsnscabs )
Perfect for a cute date or a creative hang with friends 💞
💸 $75 | $10 off when you sign up together with a friend/date
⏰ 1–4pm • 📍 Chinatown
🎟️ Spots limited — register via link in bio
Or at risostudioarts.com/events
many many many thanks to our lovely friend @laylaa.creates for this amazing zine featuring our lyrics and photos from @adamrindy and @raesheille
and also for creating our gorgeous new logo together with @almost_tattoos she is so beautiful omfg
Our new individual pour-over pouch package is here.
Designed in collaboration with our barista @laylaa.creates , this packaging reflects our branding—minimal, intentional, and focused on the coffee itself.
Now available on the shelf at both our York and Brand locations.
Good ideas start with coffee.
Excited to share that @almost_tattoos and I will be vending our travelers notebooks at @verdigoboulders !! It’s a lights out climbing event to support @amoralvalle818 . The holidays are coming up, and these are a great gift for your loved ones or for yourself❤️
We will be selling:
Red, Blue, Green, and Brown leather journals in A5 and A6 size
Gorgeous charms made by @stabsnscabs
Can’t wait to see you all there🫶🏽
From my time at Getty Publications - The Spring 2025 Publications Catalog 📖 ✨
I was honored to design the cover of the Spring 2025 Publications Catalog that features all the amazing books Getty is putting out for the season. After many rounds of design and feedback from both the design and marketing team, we landed on this cover featuring the explosive artwork of Cai Guo-Qiang filled with blues and yellows complimented by a vibrant magenta label💥
Production Notes:
Design by me :)
Artwork featured by Cai Guo-Qiang
9,000 editions distributed in the US
4,600 editions disrupted in the UK
“A Cause for Celebration” is an interactive book design I created last year inspired by a tradition between me and my partner 📚 ✨❤️ After college, my girlfriend and I moved to a little neighborhood in Los Angeles, California in search of graphic design jobs. While working random gigs, and applying to our dream jobs, we were desperate to find ways to celebrate all the little wins in our lives. Lucky for us, we moved to a neighborhood with amazing food options. Our relationship started with food and as our relationship grew we became foodies. From cooking together, to collecting cook books, to now; where we use any excuse to celebrate by going out and rating restaurants. We took it to a silly extent where anything and everything (seriously everything) could be a cause for celebration. What stemmed from a silly little tradition became this book. I hope you all enjoy 🍽️🧡✨
Production notes:
3.5”x 5.5” (a little pocket size book)
Perfect Bound
Various papers
3 editions (1 for me and my girlfriend, and 2 for frens ❤️)
📚✂️ Hi friends! I’m Layla— a book designer and paper artist!
Somewhere between my affinity for structures and organization with my love language of gift-giving, I found my sweet spot: book design. I’m obsessed with the little things — the folds, the textures, the type choices, the systems — all the tiny details that bring a book to life and make it feel like a meaningful gift.
I’m also the kind of person who has a notebook for everything (seriously, everything): journaling, lists, projects, cool words, meals I want to make… you get the picture.
Stick around if you’re into hand-crafted chaos, heartfelt design, and slightly wacky, deeply personal books inspired by my life, my community, and all the little things that make us human. 💌📖✨
#bookdesign #adhdartist #paperartist #artistbooks #graphicdesign #bookarts #giftgivingasart #notebooklover #creativechaos #artistintro
Had so much fun creating this series of bookmarks!! 📚 I call it Library Lore: Animal Archives
I’m obsessed with drawing animals, I’m obsessed with animal symbolism, I’m obsessed with printmaking, and I’m OBSESSED with the word lore.
This was a series of woodblock prints that highlight an animal and what they symbolize in fables from different cultures. The overall design was inspired by medieval illustrations and library due date slips. Categories are separated using the Dewey Decimal system.
I am so tired and so proud, thank you to everyone who stopped by the trade show and let me ramble on about my little animals 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
If you didn’t get a print, hit me up maybe we can do an art trade 🤭
#printmaking #woodblock #woodblockprint #animalsymbolism #fables #raven #wolf #crocodile #bookmarks #bookarts #deweydecimal #whotheheckisdeweydecimal #imsotiredbutthiswastotallyworthit
