
Content: Making a limited edition Woodtype Poster
Client: Studio Oeding, Hamburg www.studio-oeding.com
This courses included the following techniques and steps:
- Typesetting with lead letters in letterpress
- Typecasting: handcasting type “the Gutenberg way“ and machine casting with the Monotype composition caster from 1895
- Background design: experimenting with sprayed and painted colour to easily design a nice background paper
- Woodtype: cutting type from wood with the 1920s woodtype engraver from D. Stempel AG
- Printing: making proofs on different printing machines like Korrex and Vandercook and printing the edition of posters on the Heidelberger Cylinder from the 1950s
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