“Willkommen!” poster
Letterpress printed poster in 64×88cm
Letterpress printed invitation poster for the open days 2016 at my graphic design studio. The large poster type “Willkommen!” is hand set Como by Xilografia Italiana. The smaller vertical info is set in Cairoli Serie Tonda Nerissima (see Neue Moderne Grotesk / Aurora-Grotesk I–IV) metal type by Nebiolo. So two analog Italian faces on this one. You gotta love that!
The hand has been cut manually from linoleum. All the other shapes (curved corners, straigth lines, circle segmets, heart, wavy line) have been pantograph-cut from pear wood (in a similar process to how wood type has been produced traditionally in Continental Europe). Printed in four print runs.
Format: 64×88cm
Paper: Environment, 90g/m2
Januar 2018, edition of 280 posters on a FAG Control 900
Pantograph-cutting process of the wavy line into pear wood
Composition/lock-up of the freshly cut pear wood shapes
Printing of the shapes
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Check out the amazing video documenting the making of this poster.