Tour de Lead Graffiti 2012
Just one last reminder to check out our Tour de Lead Graffiti project, where we translate each stage of the Tour de France into a poster each day for 23 consecutive days. We are working on #18 today which is a rest day for the riders (but not for us).
Each of the more recent day we’ve been showing a lockup from the day. We do a lot of the type on the diagonal.
This is a lockup from yesterday. Just two small pieces of type, but we used the whole bed of our Vandercook Universal III and only one quoin.
“Why” you ask?
After 18 days of this you start looking for new things to make it interesting.
We are happy with a number of the posters.
You can go to Stage 1 and just keep clicking the images to move through them.
tdlg12-15-lockup.jpg
I love this! And here I thought I was nuts locking up a single colon. I need it to create the Swedish รถ, and I don’t have a printer’s saw to modify the sorts properly.
Barbara
Sorry, I didn’t put a link to the project.
http://leadgraffiti.com/news/tour-de-lead-graffiti-2012/
to Lead Graffiti
Thank you for your effort, cycling was my sport, typesetting my employment.
When we were short of a letter (about 3 inches tall) I took a proof, cut the shape from a plastic (Laminex or similar), stuck it to a piece of wood and packed it to type-high; worked well enough for us, but used for direct printing on a proofing-press for posters. [The run was less than 100, six nights a week.]
Alan.
to Lead Graffiti
Thank you for your effort, cycling was my sport, typesetting my employment.
When we were short of a letter (about 3 inches tall) I took a proof, cut the shape from a plastic (Laminex or similar), stuck it to a piece of wood and packed it to type-high; worked well enough for us, but used for direct printing on a proofing-press for posters. [The run was less than 100, six nights a week.]
Alan.