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Letterpress Catalogue

Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

I set out to catalog all the wooden type available to students. I produced a catalog book and printed banner to promote letterpress at the university.

Each spread displayed in actual size the printed font as well as name, size, style and weight information. The right page included a count of how many and what characters are available.

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A section at the front of book gave an explanation of useful tips and guide

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As well as categorizing the 67 fonts available into serif, sans slab I also catogorised a sub section with numbers, punctions and borders etc.

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A spread from the punctuation section

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The cover can be used as a ruler as the lines are drawn in pica increments. The line measurements are then carried throughout the book to help the user understand the letterpress sizes. The diagram also represents the letterpress cases in the studio.

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letterpress on a giant scale

Saturday, May 21st, 2011

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I wanted to demonstrate the variety of wooden letterpress type at bath spa uni. There are 67 fonts and nearly 4,000 forms. So with help from fellow students we printed 3 letter words per font and printed a giant banner. The words chosen were randomly generated from 400, 3 letter words. I then numbered each word and used a number generator to select each word to form a 67 line poem. hopefully this reflected the often unpredictable nature of letterpress.

come see it at bath spa graphic communication uni show for the final unveiling. June 10 – 14th 2011.

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To print the 6m banner a special wooden chase was made that connected together from 3 parts. this was clamped to 3 tables. A spool with a roll of paper was rolled on top of the chase. The banner was then hand printed using a barren. Click on the images to view the process

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A special thanks to Flore Diamant, Jordan wright and Lavinia Tyler who helped to print the banner.
you can view this on the creative review feed. http://www.creativereview.co.uk/feed/may-2011/21/letterpress-on-a-giant-scale

layout

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

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letterpress poem test

Saturday, April 16th, 2011

After printing every variety of letterpress typeface available at bath spa I scanned and created a quick 6m banner test, which I hanged down the stairs, I now aim to re-create this but to hand print it using silver letterpress ink.

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letterpress publicity posters

Friday, April 15th, 2011

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posters created to publicise the creation of the bath spa’s catlogue of type and event.

letterpress play

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Using the repeated Egyptian A extra extended, I created this composition.

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Letterpress prints so far

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

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Letterpress ideas

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

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Letterpress project

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

I 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.

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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”

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