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“All Metal, All The Time” Poster
Production Method
Letterpress
Design
Starshaped Press, Inc.
Printing
Starshaped Press, Inc.
This poster is made with 100% letterpress love and none of the pretense.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
14 × 18 in
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
French / Speckletone / Starch White / 100lb
Number of Colors
3
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Runic, Rustic, Tuscan Graille, Arboret, Spread, Victorian, Concave, Scroll Shaded, Mandarin, Lexington, Pen Print Bold, Latin Ornate, Glyptic Shaded, Della Robbia, Motto, Phydian Revised, Extended Black
Project Description
This poster specimen was printed in collaboration with Skyline Type Foundry, one of the few metal type foundries in the US creating beautiful type for letterpress printing. It is letterpress printed entirely with hundreds of antique metal type and ornaments all set by hand, and all cast by Skyline Type. It is built to resemble the side of an actual piece of type and is printed in three shades of silver to make it appear luminous.Sky Shipley (of Skyline Type Foundry) provided the quote, one of his favorites that references the quirky eccentricities of type design. More detail of the process is on our blog.
Production Lesson(s)
While this form was set all as one piece, it was printed in three shades of silver, and getting the registration was much harder than anticipated. Working with many different typefaces led to many workups (when the spacing rises to print level), which slowed printing.
Post Author
Jessica Mullen
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
July 28, 2014
Filed Under
Letterpress
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About
FPO (For Print Only), is a division of UnderConsideration, celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects.
FPO uses Fonts.com to render Siseriff and Avenir Next.
FPO is run with Six Apart’s MovableType
All comments, ideas and thoughts on FPO are property of their authors; reproduction without the author’s or FPO’s permission is strictly prohibited
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About UnderConsideration
UnderConsideration is a graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work. Run by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit in Bloomington, IN. More…
blogs we publish
Brand New / Displaying opinions and focusing solely on corporate and brand identity work.
Art of the Menu / Cataloguing the underrated creativity of menus from around the world.
Quipsologies / Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
products we sell
Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work.
Brand New Conference videos / Individual, downloadable videos of every presentation since 2010.
Prints / A variety of posters, the majority from our AIforGA series.
Other / Various one-off products.
events we organize
Brand New Conference / A two-day event on corporate and brand identity with some of today's most active and influential practitioners from around the world.
Brand Nieuwe Conference / Ditto but in Amsterdam.
Austin Initiative for Graphic Awesomeness / A speaker series in Austin, TX, featuring some of the graphic design industry's most awesome people.
also
Favorite Things we've Made / In our capacity as graphic designers.
Projects we've Concluded / Long- and short-lived efforts.
UCllc News / Updates on what's going at the corporate level of UnderConsideration.
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