Velocipede Temporary Closing Poster
21/12/12 15:32 Filed in: Pellinore Press
I made this poster for Velocipede Bike Project to announce its temporary closing.
This poster represents several firsts. This was the first time I’ve used our wood type, combining it with type donated by some Velocipede Collective members (thanks!). It might also qualify as the first solely typographic piece I’ve printed. Finally, it’s the first time I’ve printed directly from a galley tray, a technique quite common in the press’ original usage.
The construction of the form improved my typesetting skills in regard to planning and problem solving. One difficulty proved to be the incompleteness of the fonts. I did my best to plan the distribution of upper and lower case so as to have enough of certain sorts (individual pieces of type), as well as stress important parts of the text. There are a few spots where I ran out and substituted other fonts, hopefully tastefully. As best I can determine, these fonts are all from the Futura family, or some variation thereof.
Lock-up was interesting and pretty easy. I locked the type into the galley tray, using magnets on one side, then just added furniture around the tray in the press bed until it was snug. In order to prevent any slipping of the form, the magnets were placed closest to the cylinder so that any force from printing would push the form against immovable furniture and not test the force of the magnets.
Because I was producing only 20 or so, it didn’t seem worthwhile to use the press’ inking system, requiring more cleanup as well as more time for makeready. Instead, I used a large brayer and a smaller one to ink areas where the large brayer would fall into the form. The less even inking seemed appropriate to the use of type that was itself uneven and, in some cases, physically damaged.
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This poster represents several firsts. This was the first time I’ve used our wood type, combining it with type donated by some Velocipede Collective members (thanks!). It might also qualify as the first solely typographic piece I’ve printed. Finally, it’s the first time I’ve printed directly from a galley tray, a technique quite common in the press’ original usage.
The construction of the form improved my typesetting skills in regard to planning and problem solving. One difficulty proved to be the incompleteness of the fonts. I did my best to plan the distribution of upper and lower case so as to have enough of certain sorts (individual pieces of type), as well as stress important parts of the text. There are a few spots where I ran out and substituted other fonts, hopefully tastefully. As best I can determine, these fonts are all from the Futura family, or some variation thereof.
Lock-up was interesting and pretty easy. I locked the type into the galley tray, using magnets on one side, then just added furniture around the tray in the press bed until it was snug. In order to prevent any slipping of the form, the magnets were placed closest to the cylinder so that any force from printing would push the form against immovable furniture and not test the force of the magnets.
Because I was producing only 20 or so, it didn’t seem worthwhile to use the press’ inking system, requiring more cleanup as well as more time for makeready. Instead, I used a large brayer and a smaller one to ink areas where the large brayer would fall into the form. The less even inking seemed appropriate to the use of type that was itself uneven and, in some cases, physically damaged.
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