 My post earlier this week on an article about letterpress in Forbes and Kate’s comments got me to thinking about my own taste in letterpress posters. The main inspiration for my own wood type collage prints was a lecture I attended where Alastaire Johnston talked about the work of H N Werkman (I have a post about his calendars here). Werkman’s broadsides seem so spontaneous — he printed with anything he could find in his studio, including furniture. But it is definitively sloppy and probably over-inked printing. Without getting too deep so early in the morning, I wanted to share this poster I found on flickr. It’s a 5-color letterpress print for a show at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, OH created entirely from antique wood type and ornaments by Mikey Burton. You can see his full flickr stream here.
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