I was looking for something else and found this website - Good On Paper - full of amazing letterpress work. Just beautiful.
Here’s a piece of their work, so I can remember …
I also came across this short documentary about Firefly Press, located “just around the corner from the 15th century”.
Tutorial madness. It’s crazy! Out they go. Etc.
1. Digital Star Effect. Just because it is pretty.
2. Grunge layout. Nothing really earth-shattering, but a good reminder of some stuff I knew and then forgot. (story of my life)
3. Photo with a border.
4. Text burnt into a wooden panel.
5. Creating creases and folds.
6. “pop art”
7. the “wicked […]
Here’s a few tutorials for reference.
1. Some amazing tutorials on the woodcut style. This one is especially useful.
2. Varying line-widths in Illustrator.
3. Drawing a tree-lined road in Photoshop
When you spend your hard-earned money on a Pantone book, make sure you ask for the Color Bridge (Figure 1). This version, formerly known as Solid to Process, has the Pantone solid color right next to the CMYK process version (or as close to it as CMYK can get).
You will also see RGB and HTML […]
Just some links for reference.
Designing with grids
Aligning to baseline
The graphic design that pops up in the indie music scene occasionally is pretty exciting..The Heads Of State have been one of my favourite studios for a long while. Is their Wilco poster not one of the best band posters you’ve ever seen?
33rpm is another studio doing some beautiful things with ink.
It’s all so […]