The Convergence of Twitter, Sports, Batman and Letterpress Printing
I’ve been taking a letterpress class at Cooper Union, and Jeff recently tweeted something that I thought deserved memorializing in type and ink.
So last night, I grabbed a few fonts of wood type and locked up the form on one of the Vandercook SP-15 presses:
I hand-inked the type with brayers rather than inking the press rollers, so I could print two colors simultaneously and easily change colors later. After some trial and error with ink amounts and pressure, I pulled the first decent test print:
And a while later, I had a small edition of posters in four different color schemes:
It was a really fun exercise. For those of you unfamiliar with the process of letterpress printing, check out the sweet little video below. And if you’re near Brooklyn, be sure to check out The Arm for letterpress classes, or to book press time if you already have letterpress experience and just want to make some things.
Letterpress from Naomie Ross on Vimeo.
November 9th, 2011 at 11:01 am
Will you please let me buy one of these? I don’t care how, I’ll even pick up locally.
November 10th, 2011 at 8:04 pm
[...] Batman Letterpress – Test Print Image by d.billy Quote tweeted by Jeff Simmermon, set and printed by me. andiamnotlying.com/2011/twitter-sports-batman-letterpress/ [...]
November 11th, 2011 at 9:09 am
T-shirts please! I’ll spend $$
November 13th, 2011 at 9:41 am
Please Please I will also Pay. I would like a print!!! I’ll pick up!
December 7th, 2011 at 11:09 am
Came for the post about cancer (beautiful – I’m sending it to my mom, a former cancer hospital nurse and a cancer survivor) and stayed for this post about letterpress. I’ve been meaning to take a class for years!
February 7th, 2012 at 11:49 am
[...] Batman Letterpress – Test Print Image by d.billy Quote tweeted by Jeff Simmermon, set and printed by me. andiamnotlying.com/2011/twitter-sports-batman-letterpress/ [...]
February 7th, 2012 at 3:10 pm
[...] Batman Letterpress – Test Print Image by d.billy Quote tweeted by Jeff Simmermon, set and printed by me. andiamnotlying.com/2011/twitter-sports-batman-letterpress/ [...]