Introducing our limited edition red envelope collaboration with O.OO for the Year of the Wood Snake. 蛇麼都好! Every set contains 1 each of 3 designs, featuring traditional Lunar New Year iconography and wishes of good fortune.

In Taiwanese culture, snakes have long been regarded and represented as guardians and deities. A serpent winds across each envelope, adorned with symbols and patterns suggesting their honored position. On these envelopes, O.OO have treated the snake as a line, as a fill, and a carrier of protective symbols.

Each envelope carries one lucky saying for the Year of the Snake:

金蛇迎春: The golden snake welcomes Spring
蛇序呈祥: The sequence (referring to the four seasons in a year) of the snake brings good fortune
祥蛇賀歲: The auspicious snake celebrates the New Year

Designed and printed in Taipei with with soy-based inks on a risograph printer.

Red envelopes are exchanged during the Lunar New Year as a way to give "lucky money;" the gift symbolizes good wishes for the year ahead. Keep things auspicious by gifting even numbers like $2, $16, $20, $88, avoid any 4s, and always use fresh bills.

How It's Made

Risograph printing can be thought of as cross between screen printing and a xerox machine, or digital screen printing. It’s known for the bright and vivid quality of the color, the textured hand of the inks, and its simple printing technology. Though it was originally created as a simple and economic printing method, it has created a culture of experimentation and improvisation among designers. It’s as useful for printing pizza menus as experimental red envelopes.

O.OO are excellent risograph printers and have mastered the art. They even wrote a book about it: No Magic in Riso, which is distributed all over the world.

About O.OO

Taipei-based design studio O.OO is Pip and Forty, two designers dedicated to create designs that are more experimental with the use of Risograph printing technology. The Risograph printing technology has become one of their significant characteristics. In addition to graphic design and Risograph printing, O.OO will create new works and projects from time to time to influence and inspire the design circle in the near future.