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typeworship:

Modern Wood Type

In a process moving from digital to manual, these beautiful woodblocks have been designed in Illustrator, laser cut and then printed by hand.

Produced by Nigel Bents, Paul Oakley and Jonny Holmes while at Chelsea College of Art & Design in London, the characters were based on a Bodoni poster typeface. The extreme stroke contrast has been used to house these playful decorative patterns.

The letters were cut from 3mm plywood then mounted on type-high blocks before letterpress printing at New North Press in Hoxton.

Even before inking, I love how the laser cutting has scorched a warm colour onto the wooden face of the letters.

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fyeahletterpress:

Giveaway Time!

Because this blog has reached 1,000 followers (Still amazes me!), I’m going to be giving away a copy of this book, the Little Book of Letterpress. It’s full of beautiful inspiration, a look into different studios & images from letterpress printers around the world. (If you like this blog, you’ll love this book.)

Rules~~

- You must be following this blog in order to win. This giveaway is because of all the awesome followers, so if you want to win this, please follow!

- This contest is open internationally. 

- You may like & reblog once to enter. (One like, one reblog). 

- This contest will go on for 2 weeks. It will end May 9th at 11:59pm, EST. I will announce the winner then. You will have 3 days to message me. 

- If this contest goes well, there will be more in the future! So reblog & like away. c: 

{Images are from SeeSaw Designs}

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