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At first glance, this poster by Brad Vetter sucks you in with its soft color modulation and ghostly drop shadow. And that’s when you remember: This is letterpress! Brad and his cohorts at Hatch Show Print have been advancing the art of letterpress into new territory for a good, long time now. Just when you thought you knew what letterpress was all about, they bob and weave and jab and land a big, fat sock in the kisser. If you wanna see where analog design is going in 2013, get your butt down to Nashville. |
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For several years now, Ben Levitz and his collaborators at Studio on Fire
(SoF) have been creating an amazing desktop calendar. This year’s model is
absolutely stunning. In addition to Ben’s work, it also features
illustrations by Sasha Prood, Brian Gunderson, John Malta, Jolby and
Karolin Schnoor. |
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Tracy Honn of Silver Buckle Press in Madison, Wisconsin created this stunning array of experimental prints using the Van Lanen font designed by Matthew Carter and cut by Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum. Tracy is a master printer and currently serves as printer in residence at Hamilton Wood Type. She immediately recognized the visual possibilities that Matthew Carter envisioned when he designed this font in 2004. Chromatic fonts are multicolor faces that allow the printer to create both a foreground and background when printing. |
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If you made me boil my design envy down to one project over the past year, there’s only one that comes to mind… Physical Fiction! Samuel Cox and Justin LaRosa have taken my favorite thing as a grown-up (letterpress) and combined it with my favorite thing as a child (legos) to make the coolest letterpress idea this century. |
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Typeface, for those that haven’t seen it, is an independent documentary about the secret national treasure of wood type at Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Hamilton produced posters and printed materials for a large part of the country for over 100 years, and still boasts a collection of 1.5 million pieces of wood type. We were embarrassed that we hadn't known about it before. Shortly after Typeface brought Hamilton to our attention, Quite Strong planned a trip up to see our cheese-head neighbors along with a bunch of our design friends. |
