“Typographic Disillusion” poster

Contributed by Dafi Kühne


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Letterpress printed poster, 64×97.6cm, on mirror coat paper

Letterpress printed poster for Typographic Printing Program 2024. Printed from hand carved linoleum (squares and larger type) and freshly cast Ludlow hot metal slugs (tiny 6pt type).

All lines on this poster are dead-straight. The line bending effect is only reached by the careful placing and scale of the letter forms.

Format: 64×97.6cm
Paper: Heavymetal, 170g/m²
Edition: 300 letterpress printed posters

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Process of cutting the linoleum for printing. Though all the lines of the checkerboard are straight, they already appear bent.

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Printing process of the hand-cut linoleum on a letterpress proof press

This post was originally published at Fonts In Use

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