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Modern, stylish, and eye-catching — Square Flyers & Leaflets are perfect for brands that want to stand out. Printed in vibrant colour on premium paper with same-day printing in London by Same Day Printing London.

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Branded notebooks are one of the most useful and long-lasting promotional items. At Same Day Printing London, we print custom wiro-bound, softcover, and hardback notebooks — all available with same-day service. Perfect for offices, events, students, and corporate gifting.

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Desk Calendar Printing

Elevate your branding with custom desk calendar printing from Same Day Printing London. Perfect for corporate gifts, offices and year-round promotions. Same-day service available.

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Since we've been spending some time UK-side this month, today's printerview is appropriately with a Londoner. Ruta Daubure is an illustrator, printmaker and it seems maker of amazing-looking-miniature-set-designs that are featured above too. She has a beautiful aesthestic that translates to all her varied projects. Thanks Ruta!

When did you start printing?

The first introduction to printing making I had when I was around 16. There was etching, lithography and lino cut lessons at the art high school I attended in Latvia. But those were only the basics and I wasn't really experimenting much with it up until I got into Camberwell College of Art. Only then I started to learn more about lithography - stone and zinc plate and experiment more with it. I guess the soil in college is much more relaxed and open for mistakes and fails and that really helped me in doing printmaking without anyone watching over my shoulder. I really do enjoy the process of being on my own in print room and just printing, when there is just me and print.

Where do you make your work? Home studio? Shared print space?

I am quite a lone worker as I do get distracted by things and people very easily. At the moment I work in my room which is also my studio at my house.  Me and my house mates also happen to have a lovely conservatoire downstairs that we use as a work space, so there is plenty of room to go to change the setting if I get fed up with sitting at my own desk. Though I like to work in silence and on my own, I also like occasional chat and coffee break, which is great when you have a studio. 

Who would you love to collaborate with?

Most of my peers are illustrators and do printmaking, recently we participated in Pick Me Up 2014 as a collective Olio Studio, which was really a great fun! I always like to see what people been up to especially from more distant disciplines from illustration. It would be really hard and super ambitious to name anyone specific, but I would love to collaborate with people working in such disciplines as set design and sculpture. I find it great to do things that I don't feel comfortable with and possibly may never succeed at them but by learning form great people and just simply seeing things from even slightly different angle makes possibly a big difference when I go back to doing an illustration. 

Where are some of your favorite spaces in London for contemporary art or design?

I am actually not going to see that much contemporary art, it is more sort of an eclectic mix of different stuff I like to go and see. Also more and more I find it much more engaging and inspiring to see things that do not literally concern illustration or printmaking and maybe even has nothing to do with it. Personally,  things like a visit to Science Museum or seeing a ballet or opera at Royal Opera House is much more what I am after.I mean some of the set designers commissioned by ROH are just amazing artists, it is good to keep an eye on what they have on offer once you're in London. And I guess there are always the big blockbusters at Tate or RA and in most cases they really are worth seeing.

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London-based designer and printmaker Saskia Pomeroy has been on PrCB's radar for a while. She makes use of color and form a way that reminds us why we love screenprint. She was kind enough to answer a few of our questions for our most recent printerview.

ps. all the prints above are available through her online store, and she has a fantastic tumblr thats worth checking out too.

When did you start printing?

I started printing in my final year at Art School in Glasgow. I hand printed An animal alphabet with Haiku poems. I guess I found screen printing a really interesting and fun process. There’s a lot of skill involved too which I learned later, but it just adds to the beauty of it!

Where do you make your work? Home studio? Shared print space?

All over really, when I moved to London I got a job with K2 Screen as a printer, so I could print there then sometimes. After I left my old boss let me come back and print the stuff for “This Time” in 2012, which was awesome. It was mainly oil based inks we used there, so I’d smell really bad after each day. I have printed in the Printall studios in Bermondsey, the facilities are great, but it’s mainly textiles. Lots of interesting people to meet there. I recently printed some boxes at the East London Printmakers, which was a dream, lovely studio. Definitely going back there.

Who would you love to collaborate with?

Pia Howell, Dusen Dusen, Natalia Stuyk, Malin Gabriella Nordin.. I’d like to do some big fashion collaborations too, dream ones like Kenzo, Jonathan Saunders maybe?

Where are some of your favorite spaces in London for contemporary art or design?

Errr, The Hayward is pretty good in general, I enjoyed the Mingei show at the Pace Gallery and the Herald Street Gallery is good too. There’s some Hans Arp sculptures in Hauser & Wirth that is showing right now too.