I spent this whole morning in the BAP studio. I’m contributing to a postcard exchange focusing on type. The edition is 60, which I think has to be the largest edition I’ve ever done for an exchange. I decided to not only do a play on words, but a play on printing. There are 2 types of impressions in letterpress – a deep impression (embossed or in my case, de-bossed) or a kiss impression where the artwork barely touches the paper. It took my awhile to come up with a good layout that supported this idea. You can see the last “e” on impressive is about to kiss the “k”. The type is script and runs off each side so that the kiss between the two words can have even more tension. The best feedback I got on this was, “That’s impressive.”

“Oh gee. Thanks.”

Printed on unbleached Lettra, wet pack.

While printing this I got inspired for my next project where I will be printing completely blind (no ink – not blindfolded or anything). Stay tuned!

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