Press & Media

A new video that features Yoshiko and her work process is available at Celebrating Craft: In the Studio with Yoshiko Yamamoto. This video is part of Old California Lantern's educational series about the Arts & Crafts Movement.

Yoshiko's keynote talk Why William Morris Today? Art, Craft and the Pursuit of Happiness, at the National Arts & Crafts Conference at Grove Park Inn, is now available on YouTube.

Yoshiko's art and printing, along with her collaborations with other craft firms, are featured in The Guild: Yoshiko Yamamoto.

Yoshiko wrote an article about her experiences as a letterpress and woodblock printer, as well as her practice of William Morris's ideals, entitled The Art & Craft of Printing: Our 25-Year Journey in the Journal of the William Morris Society.

To accompany her exhibition at the University of Puget Sound Collins Library, Yoshiko delivered a lecture on her printing, art, and life. To read about it, please visit here.

To meet the Japanese American artist behind Seattle’s “From Hiroshima to Hope” posters, you need to travel to a castle in Tacoma: the Tillicum Building, designed in 1929, shaped like a castle from the outside. Once you arrive, expect a cheerful studio and shop full of natural light, boxes and boxes of brightly colored letterpress cards and envelopes, intricately carved woodblocks leaning against the windows, and even several small birds who twitter happily in their cages.

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Earlier this month, the wonderful people from Spaceworks Tacoma came to visit and learn about our printing process. (Above photo by Patrick Hagerty.)

"Yoshiko Yamamoto of The Arts & Crafts Press believes we all deserve to interact with beautiful, hand-made objects in our homes every day. To accomplish this goal, she has hybridized Japanese-style woodcut prints and Western letterpress printing techniques, combining high quality craftsmanship with the cost effectiveness of machinery. Yoshiko’s creative drive…"

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