We could choose from a variety of wooden letter blocks - capital; lower case; condensed; expanded and several ligature's. We had an assortment of colored oil inks to roll onto our wooden blocks and then compress them on the letterpress machine, so that the ink printed onto paper. The paper was slightly damp, which gave the text an embossed effect. Some of the wooden letters had slightly chipped rough surfaces, which gave a really appealing sketchy feel.
I then explored my new learnt technique by using a variety of different colored papers; applying the text to fabric textured backgrounds; using tracing paper to overlay onto more text etc.
This is some of the work by the letter press designer Alan Kitching
Here is one of my outcomes of Letterpress - Exloring the idea of Expand. The words expanding around the centre.
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