The Beauty of letterpress poster

This looks fun. The lettering is made up from letterpress tools and the composition has a Russian Constructivist style. It was designed by Earl Gee for Neenah paper as part of their The Beauty of Letterpress: The Art of Making an Impression series.

“My other concepts involved straight type, but the idea of using tools as typographic forms was just too much fun to resist. I hope viewers enjoy discovering the tools within the typography.”

Proceeds from the print support of the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, whose mission is to preserve the historic wood type blocks and revive the old-world craft of letterpress printing.