Lego Letterpress

I was giong through the archives of my wordpress blog and I came across this post that I posted about 2 years ago and it still fasinates me now, so I thought I would re-post it onto this blog (just because I can really) and as a life long lover of lego I find this letterpress a truly amazing piece of kit. 

The letterpress is the idea of 2 graphic designers Sam Cox and Justin LaRosa, under their Physical Fiction aegis. The press works by clicking smooth lego tiles into place on the plastic baseboards and then inking, the final outcome look as though they have an 8-bit aesthetic.

It's defiantly inspired me, maybe one day I'll try printing some of my lego and see what I come up with.

http://cargocollective.com/physicalfiction/

Letterpress Experiments

I have finally gotten round to experimenting with letterpress, I decided to have a go at it for my personal identity project.

I started off by printing my surname (Taylor) using wooden type,

Below are the results of the letterpress:

Wooden Type

On a recent trip to London I bought myself some wooden type from a stall at one of the Apple market  at Covent Garden, (the stall is normally there on mondays). I bought my initials for know but I will gradually try and get a full alphabet.

The letters at the stall range in price and the one's I bought were £5 each, though these were part of the larger selection of letters available. The market stall also had a selection of metal type as well as wooden.

The stall is called The Old Printing Shop.

I also have a set of Gill Sans metal type which I purchased a while back, so I have a little collection of movable type starting :)