Here's another little zine front cover I made at the letterpress company. The idea is to illustrate the questions that you ask people when you are just getting to know them. I listed as many titles as I could find, I quite like Countess and Viscount.
During my internship at Hand and Eye I was able to print some of my own things. Above is a series of zines I'm planning to illustrate, I had fun printing the front covers with letterpress. Quite like the planets one, I included 8 planets because I feel sorry for Pluto being kicked out of the main planet category.
So on & so forth posted about my work on their blog! Thank you ♥.So on & so forth is a lovely blog, filled with gorgeous simple things. I reccomend following!
This was my piece of writing I set at Hand and Eye. After learning and practising dissing I chose Gill Sans pt 8 and set the above text. Something that I thought would be easy to do, but soon found out it is extremely complex. It was probably over 10 attempts before I satisfactorily had completed the setting, only to find that after to showing it to many people there were loads of mistakes! Some Gill Light had manged to get into the Gill Sans tray and I forgot to space the CAPITAL letters (just a few of my mistakes!). Also the spacing I found difficult to get just perfect, some lines would be tight, while others would be wobbly. Even now you can see that there are two different types of 1's in the font, but I like imperfection. Definitely learnt a lot and was a great experience!
I recently was able to do a two week internship at the Hand and Eye Letterpress company. It was a great opportunity to learn how letterpress works and more about the different types of typography. Unfortunately most of the photos I took (I was using my Diana film camera) didn't develop well, most were blank. Even though I bought film that could be used inside! But I managed to get a few photographs, this one of the printing presses has quite an interesting quality.
