[image description: 4 photos of a combination letterpress-printed and hand-drawn illustration, and t
[image description: 4 photos of a combination letterpress-printed and hand-drawn illustration, and the handset formes of lead type used to print it. The illustration is of a person, wrapped in a blanket patterned in peach and pale purple, and listening to a podcast— “…and the knife was found in the back garden…” The podcast text and the color elements of the pattern on the blanket were printed from pieces of letterpress decorative material: randomized peach circles, and repeating lines of diamonds and dotted arches in purple. The relief pieces were set up to cover a larger area than the blanket, and then printed through a hand-cut mylar frisket, which protected the paper from being printed outside of the shape of the blanket. After the colors were printed, the black lineart of the illustration was drawn on top. end description.]got to do this VERY sweet commission a couple of weeks ago, of the customer’s partner! requested elements included: their favorite peach color, a comfy blanket burrito, and listening to a true crime podcast.I had to search a bit to find the right textures for the purple pass. The dotted arches were good, but it needed something else too and i sifted through the shop a bit before remembering the particular irregularity of Neuland—(you might know Neuland even without knowing it by name; it’s a typeface used in a lot of promotional stuff for The Lion King musical—and woah do i hate what they did to those L& K caps??—or in the Inline version, or for Jurassic Park. anyway,)i’m reasonably sure that what we have is og Neuland, that Rudolf Koch cut punches for himself, and there’s small variations between the same figure in different point sizes of the face. there’s a lot of hand in the shapes. so all the diamonds are Neuland periods and high dots, and they’re just a little bit softer than the perfect circles. that’s what was missing I think.(podcast text is Gillies Gothic Light)wip 1 : wip 2 -- source link
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