So, the second postcard that I have been asked to design has to be based on a particular time or piece of history to do with type. For my postcard of type in history I have chosen to base this on Letter press. I have previously experimented with this process with real letter blocks and really enjoyed making the typography with them. Here is an experiment that I created for a previous type project:
I really like this photograph of the letter blocks. I think that the colour of the letters in the middle really make it stand out. Unfortunately I cannot recreate an image in the style of this as I don't have the equipment. Although I am trying to think of alternatives that I could do to make my own touch on a piece.
I think that a more simple piece like this for my postcard design could also work, the one line of figures I think would make it allot easier to read, and still see and understand what it is about. I want the piece of text on the front to say 'The History of Type Conference at St Bride Library' or maybe just something shorter like 'The History of Type'. This way I think it shows exactly what it is and the rest of the information will be on the back of the postcard.
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From looking at my work from a previous typography project and images online that include the actual blocks and also the print from these blocks, I have decided that a cheaper way of doing this is to cut up potatoes and make letter blocks from these and print. I am going to try this and hope that this could work just as well. I will photograph and document the progress of this experiment on here.
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Progress of potato letterpress.
I have completed a few initial experiments with the potato cutting idea. I think that this is a good way of trying out new processes in a cost effect way. Here are some photographs of some steps of my experiment.
The potato printing experiment didn't work out as well as I'd hoped. this is because when printing the potato cut wasn't as straight as it needed to be. I don't think this could be helped though as it was quite difficult to cut just with a knife, it was never going to be perfect. It was also quite a messy process. I'm glad that I tried this as I think it has given me more of an understanding about the time and effort that was needed to create this type of printing technique.
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Another idea that I have had to create a letter press look to a piece, is to do it all digitally, using illustrator to draw the blocks. This way I could make the piece look like the actual blocks, like the image above from 'shutterstock.com'
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