OUGD504 Design for print: Letter press workshop

OUGD504
DESIGN FOR PRINT
LETTERPRESS WORKSHOP

For the letter press induction we went to vernon street with a quote we had already come up with my quote was 'Popularity is for Mediocre people' we then went to the draws where the letter press pieces were kept and chose a typeface off the wall. I chose Times Bold 36pt.

These was the letter press pieces for universe light condensed 30pt. They were filled with lower case letters higher case letters, middles , thicks , thins & quads also glyphs. 

As you can see here there were gaps in between the letters, these had to be filled with quads and thins. 

Then we put it all into a wooden block aligned to the top left then tightened the surrounding area so nothing fell out we also had to carry the wood block by the frame just incase we accidentally pushed any squares out.

Then finally the letter press.. we put our word block into the bed in the middle of the letter press and then collected a variation of papers. We then placed the paper on the top under the metal clips to hold it in place. We lifted the switch up on the side which meant the machine was ready for print and rolled it across fast holding the paper in place until we couldn't. we then switched the switch down to roll it back.