Description

Letterpress poster

Letterpress poster, hand printed on FTC Italian printing press; 220gsm, 100%  card stock – Canson (Colour: White), format 50×70 cm. Original prints, limited edition 1 of 4.

Design, wood type & prints by Petrescu Press

Context:
“Advertising is the sunlight of business.”
Wood type border and typefaces reconstructed and redesigned by Petrescu Press after:
– Schelter & Giesecke 1933; Flamme typeface, wood type – 16 line;
– No Mark – Wells & Webb; Chromatic Gothic Cond. Octagon Shade typeface, wood type – 16 line;
– The Wm. H. Page Wood Type Co., Norwich, Conn.; Circus Border No. 2, wood type – 8 line;