ALMOST EXTINCT

Posted by Jennie Spiller

Almost Extinct is “a project that rediscovers the lost craft of the printing press and the craftsmen that continue to use it.”

Set up by Tony Davidson “The idea is to source leading experts in this field to help design and print an alphabet of animals without the use of a computer. Some of the designs require many passes of the printing press with letters at various angles. Others require overprinting with a precise weight of ink. All of them require the sourcing of the perfect wood or metal letters, that should ideally suit the scale of the animal.”

“Once we have all the animals the plan is to hold an exhibition of prints with the sourced letters that were used next to them. Profits from this or any other merchandising will go to helping endangered animals, that like wood and metal type have come close to extinction.”

The project is still on-going. There is a list of animal names here and they are ‘up for looking at any other designs should you want to have a go.’ For contributions or questions contact ellie.price@wk.com

Posted on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 at 12:44 pm by Jennie Spiller. Filed under 3RD YEAR DESIGN, IMAGE MAKING, TYPOGRAPHY. Follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.