Very nice laser engraved typography work by Ben Johnston, a graphic designer based in Cape Town, South Africa. With custom engraved type treatments, he converted wine barrel lids into wall hanging cheeseboards.
found via behance
Laser cut wood type
Absolutely love these beautifully crafted laser cut wood type characters (B, H, S, &) created by designer Brittany Shaw.
found via Typeverything
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Holiday card from Russia
The New Year is coming soon, which means it's time to print holiday cards. Many websites & blogs already posted holiday cards roundup's, but this one comes from Russia. Designed by Ivan Gulkov using national colors and patterns the cards were printed by "Cliché" letterpress studio from Penza (Russian Federation).
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Matthew Carter and his first wood type
Interesting article on eyemagazine blog about how Matthew Carter designed his first wood type using a computer-controlled router cuts.
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Wood type by Lead Graffiti
12 line Bradley as the first font of wood type
Many of those who is printing with wood type had to work with damaged wood letters of incomplete letter cases. Lead Graffiti design studio came up with a solution to make letters from endgrain Rock Maple using random sized blocks which helps counter any warping and with as accurate a type height as is achievable in wood (which shrinks and expands based on humidity and temperature). This technique gives a lot of opportunities: creating a new (own) wood type, replacement of damaged letters etc.
So, if you have missing characters you can supply a proof and Lead Graffiti will supply it in wood. Great!
read more about the project
3D printing
On 31 March the MIAT museum, together with department of Applied Engineering of Hogeschool Gent, hosted an event about 3D printing. The aim was to demonstrate the possibilities of various 3D printers (RepRap and Maker Bot) in a live printing session. To run this experiment they took a letterpressed film poster, scanned various letters and printed them from different materials. So in less than an hour I got freshly printed letter in my hands:) Wel, unfortunately the surface of the printed letters is not perfect yet, so it still can not replace the missing letters (or maybe in the future).
