Archive for February, 2011
proof ideas 03
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011proof Ideas 02
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011proof ideas 01
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Saxow lecture poster
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011one hundred years of solitude covers
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Letterpress prints so far
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011Letterpress ideas
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011more penguin
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011Penguin ideas
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011pattern experiments
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011printers visits & uni facilities
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011Black Swan 25 poster
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011Letterpress project
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011I wanted to find out what font was contained in each case, as there are no font labels, so I started out by printing 3/4 letters from each case. The below image is a selection.
The aim of this project is to produce a catalogue of Bath Spa Letterpress wooden facilites and another volume demonstrating what is possible with the facilites. With this information re-orgranise the case structure. I will then try and identify the font using “whatthefont”
Process font
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011After speaking to a technition, I realised that cutting out the fine details with the laser cutter would be impossible and a fire risk! I therefore decided to turn the image into a negative, so that the letterpress texture could be rasterised leaving the raised print.
The printed laser cut letterforms worked well. The plywood grain is noticeable aiding the font.
I also experimented using the CNC Router, however the fine detail could not be achieved.
Other experiments are lino and photo-polyer etching.