Daniel Samson

After a lot of toil, we finished the poster last week. Here it is in all its glory.

I still cant fully think in right way, but it was certainly enlightening.

Today we did the third session of the Letterpress introduction. After last session we had a pasted up poster, this session we started to turn the mock-up into a full piece. Starting with the largest letters, inking them up and registering the paper properly. This was an interesting process, as we got to see the press working, seeing the ink spread etc.

This was followed by the VCT session where we had to create collages, based on image and text, but with the theme of systems. Our group created five seperate pieces which we then combined together. We took the front page from five different newspapers, then cut out all pictures, text and headlines. This left us with the gutter from all of the collages, showing the grid structure. Then we placed them all on top of each other to compare. This created an interesting series of patterns, but it highlighted certain similarities.

On Thursday I had two sessions, one of which was the VCT session and the other a Letterpress introduction.

The VCT sessions purpose to present a piece of work that had both Text and Image, then talk about why we chose this particular piece. The group then asked questions and discussed it fairly in depth. Some interesting debates arose about the modification of typefaces and whether it is morally correct to do so. Unfortunately only about 2/3 of the class could talk about their choice as we discussed so much, which is a good outcome. I will be talking about mine next week.

The Letterpress introduction was really interesting, although it was cut short by a fire alarm. We set our own names and had a go on the proofing press. Then we started to create a grid on which to place a larger piece of work. This is going to be concluded next week and I will post some pictures and progress then.