design is where science & art break even.

letterpress has a really high learning curve. but once i got in the zone with it, i finished mine and then helped a lot of the rest of my class with theirs! i couldn't let that new knowledge go to waste, and i can't just watch people having a hard time if it's within my powers to help. 

my best prints:

the combination of big and little in this composition meant i had to print twice, once for the woodtype and once for the metal. the woodtype never did resolve totally clearly, due to imperfections in their surfaces, but i think that is part of the charm, the vintage aspect of the process, using hundred-year-old letters. the haptic qualities of printing, as it were.

the big text in this composition was not so big that it required wood, thankfully. but centering was an extremely intensive process: it was much harder to get all that text to lock into the chase.