Naomie Ross a eu l’excellente idée de réaliser cette vidéo afin de montrer les différentes étapes d’une impression à la main. Filmée avec un Canon 7D, cette création intéressante et enrichissante permet de visualiser facilement le processus d’impression.
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Une utilisation originale des Legos en les transformant en bloc pour la conception de posters. Une idée de Physical Fiction en collaboration avec les artistes Justin LaRosa et Samuel Cox. Une série de gravures dans un rendu pixel-art produites pour le College of Design.
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Goddesses and monsters in a new line of letterpress cards
While the enduring appeal of letterpress lends itself well to fussy scrolls and flourishes, the recent revival has led many designers to contrast the preciousness of the form with more contemporary images. Taking an elegantly adorable approach, Lehua Chong prints her new collection of letterpress cards called Hour of Nine on bamboo paper using an antique press in NYC. Chong, a Hawaii native, spent several years overseeing branding and media for the fashion and entertainment industry. With a keen eye for pattern, composition and colors, the collection’s graphics were “inspired by the eccentric people, places and happenstances that fill our lives with joy.”
From a kaleidoscopic pattern of women with swirls of long hair to an opera-loving snaggletooth character that “enjoys a good tummy rub,” Chong’s subjects make the cards perfect for any occasion requiring a light-hearted message.
Hour of Nine cards sell online or from The Standard Hotel‘s NYC shop for $17 for a set of eight or $19 for a mixed set of nine cards.
Interesting use of letter press and dice, more pics after the jump…
He’s a print-maker working from Brooklyn (according to his Etsy page), where he cleverly sets dice in different patterns, inks them, and runs the blocks through a letterpress. It’s a great idea, I wonder what else you could send through there?
via Paper Crave
Before email signatures and customized Twitter themes, people wanting to make an impression with correspondence turned to the gloriously idiosyncratic and oft-outrageous personal insignia stamped onto letters. Letterheady, a new website from writer Shaun Usher, celebrates this lost art of communication with interesting letterheads from iconic figures and corporations of the 20th century including Wrigley, Charlie Chaplin, Einstein, Marvel Comics and more.
Gestalten editor and co-mastermind behind the new book “Impressive: Printmaking, Letterpress and Graphic Design,” Hendrik Hellige walks us through a few of his favorite designs below.
Hellige: “Letterheads today are quite boring and minimal. Letterheads are more subtle, using fancy paper—kind of like the business card scene in American Psycho—to deliver a point. What I like about this Tesla letterhead is that he put his inventions in the letterheads, in a cult-type design. Essentially it’s one big advertisement.”
Hellige: “She doesn’t really need anything besides her name. It stands on its own.”
Hellige: “Another advertising brochure for himself—the famous tricks, box in water, hanging down. International flags add to the intrigue of mystery.”
Hellige: “What’s funny about this letterhead is its connotation to the present and how it’s evolved. The company with the elaborate Art Deco lettering is the same company for all the emo kids today!”
See more of the vintage designs in the slide show below.
Picking the brains of Gestalten‘s book editors and designers, Youyoung Lee reports to Cool Hunting on what inspires them.
Given the state of the world, we could all do with some levity. That’s where You and Me, The Royal We comes in. Conceived by Brooklyn studio mates Oliver Jeffers, Mac Premo and Aaron Ruff of Digby and Iona (which we featured here), the recently-launched collective’s cheeky sense of humor unites the line of seemingly disconnected products.
Poking a little fun at recent men’s fashion trends, the woodgrain belt and bark buckle ($90) makes an accessoire de rigueur for the aspiring urban lumberjack—naturally, the buckle is real bark. A boxed set of standard No. 2 pencils ($22) comes emblazoned with the phrase, “
This Machine Kills Fascists,” a nod to “This Land is Your Land” legend Woody Guthrie and making a great gift for folksy and literary types alike.
Oliver Jeffers’ hand drawn “Places on Earth” print ($180) comes with a box of 202 push-pins: one red (headquarters), one blue (next target) and 200 black (global domination).
And while we’ve seen letterpress cards make the rounds before (Alison Riley’s Stop Talking cards make a succinct point), the Royal We’s All Occasions cards ($36)—thank you, sorry and fuck you—provide options for, well, all occasions.
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