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Under the Sign of Saturnism Poster
Production Method
Letterpress
Design
Gabriele Fumero
Printing
Archivio Tipografico
Dare-devil designer Gabriele Fumero explores the potentially dangerous practice of letterpressing lead type and tops it off with a metallic grand finale.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
13.8 × 19.7 in.
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
Fedrigoni / Sirio / Dark Blue / 180 gsm
Number of Colors
1
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
ATF Remington 8 pt
ATF Remington 10 pt
Nebiolo Landi 28 pt
Project Description
In the past year I began to work more and more with lead types and letterpress; so I had the idea to make this poster, a semi-ironic reflection about the choice of using traditional and potentially dangerous techniques nowadays, as if being sort of predestined. Saturnism is lead poisoning, a typographer's professional illness. I composed the illustration with a lead monospaced typeface, the illustration is a found piece of ascii-art.Production Lesson(s)
Printing in letterpress on a dark paper is always a challenge, to have an acceptable result you have to make many tests, try different papers and inks, not to mention different levels of pressure and ink amounts. For this poster we wanted the letters to really stand out against the dark paper, to immediately convey the impression of a starry night. After many trials we decided to print it in opaque white and, immediately after, dust the print with a metallic powder, this solution gave us the desidered shiny effect.
Post Author
Kelly Cree
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
August 28, 2014
Filed Under
Letterpress
Posters
Tagged with
ascii art
lead type
metallic powder
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