letterpress numero 3.

In the 3rd letterpress induction session we had to set our design for our poster. Its a pretty fiddly process but hopefully it'll look good when we've done.

We decided to go for for the colours green and orange to fit in with the bright colours used in the book. We got to use the printing press to print the orange bit of our poster. It will be finished on thursday when we'll do the other part.

green eggs.

This is the book that our letterpress poster takes its copy from. The illustration on it is pretty awesome.. We were thinking about using some of the colours used on the cover (orange) or that the illustration in the book use.

letterpress.

I have begun the letterpress induction at my college. I've been to 2 sessions so far, and have 2 more to go.

The first session I got to grips the process and how to set letters and all the measurements needed. The group each had to set our names and then use the proofing press to print them. We also got given a brief to complete in the other 3 sessions.
















































For the brief we got separated into groups and got given a colour. Our colour was green and we had to think of a phrase or saying with the colour in. Then we have to create an A2 poster with the saying on and have to arrange the type with the different letters that they have in the workshop.

In the second session we picked our saying, 'Green Eggs and Ham', which is a book by Dr Seuss and then picked our typeface and size of the letters. Then we put these words through the proofing press and then cut them out and proofed up our poster, arranging them how we want the poster.

In the next weeks we'll do our final prints and hopefully it will look goooood...