We descended on the peaceful studio of Pak Devy Ferdianto to learn a fraction of the art and science of screen printing (or sablon as it’s known in Indonesia). With Pak Devy’s patience and help, we created four incredible pieces to take home with us. Scroll on for the story behind each piece and a quick glimpse of the six-hour process.

The first piece is from Daniela Burr. She wanted to work with her first love: typography. The source material came from the Rijksmuseum collection available for public use. Daniela created a subtle red on red gradient which doesn’t show on the photo.

The second piece is by Michellina Suminto. Based on an impromptu drawing prompt game she played on Instagram, she added four of her sketched characters to a hand painted screen background.

Mila Shwaiko’s choice came from a 17th century zoology book that claimed to document the Indonesian species of unicorn: the Camphur, a web footed amphibious being. You can’t make this stuff up…

And that brings us to Rully Rumatra’s incredible peacock, based on his original artwork. Rully chose a gold accent for the peacock’s tail feathers.

As a team, we take a day off each month to go on a creativity refresh adventure we call Creative Day. We've been to local museums, learned how to throw a bowl in a local ceramics studio, explored the process of printing with gelatin and more. Each time we've explored something none of us is particularly good at. The benefits of getting off our computers and up close with real materials is priceless.

Sometimes our Creative Days have led to us adopting some of the skills learned into our work.

Our limited edition Elami and Co mugs created with Sari Api Ceramics.

Tests for a collage requested by a client featuring Sophia Loren and gelli prints.

Our most recent Creative Day had us diving into the world of skills surrounding Balinese offering making with the team from Make a Scene Bali, also behind the TEDxUbud stage design this year.