PH is a Japanese stationery brand launched in 2009 through a collaboration between PAPIER LABO. in Sendagaya, Tokyo, and Fukuoka stationery maker HIGHTIDE. Its product range includes notebooks, memo pads, files, and pen trays, combining PAPIER LABO.’s expertise in letterpress printing with HIGHTIDE’s know-how in product development and distribution. The brand pursues a new interpretation of letterpress printing and its potential through an approach that is not rooted in nostalgia, with letterpress printing and paper materials as its signatures. PAPIER LABO. director Kimiaki Eto was involved in the design.
Concept
The brand aims to create products that pursue a new interpretation of letterpress printing and its potential, rather than taking a nostalgic perspective.