Woodtype & Letterpress

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

Each participant was able to design the background paper individually and thus give the poster a unique character. All together the team then overprinted the designed papers with the slogan "Einfach Machen" (german for "Just Do It!").

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