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2011-12-18

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“What’s it going to be then, eh?”
A Clockwork Orange

If you’re interested in typography or graphic design at all, do yourself a favour and find a way to work with letterpress for a day. Before the workshop I would have spent maybe 5 or 10 minutes on a piece of casual work deciding on a typeface, doing some very quick kerning, etc. Now I’ll give it a lot more thought.

Unfortunately I haven’t got a final copy of what I worked on that day. We had to choose a powerful first line from a novel - I chose the first line of A Clockwork Orange.

I believe that I spent over 6 hours working on the one piece of typography, and still wasn’t happy with it at the end of the day. It’s a lot of hard work; I’m used to staring at a screen tapping the down arrow key on my laptop going through fonts until I find one that worked. This time I spent maybe a few hours going through this room filled with draws of trays loaded with wooden and metal letters, trying to find one that had at least 1 W, 3 H’s, 1 A, 4 T’s, 1 S, 2 I’s, 2 G’s, 2 O’s, 2 N’s, 1 B, 3 E’s, a comma and an apostrophe for “WHAT’S IT GOING TO BE THEN,” and spent a while longer looking for a large typeface that actually had a question mark for the “EH?” and had to compromise on both of them.

I’ve never been too short to reach the typeface that I’m considering using before in my life. It’s an odd feeling.

Photos by myself and other students in the class - I just kinda let anyone there pick up my camera and snap a few shots.