This post is the start of a new series of upcoming blog posts where we’ll introduce you to the most important tools we use at TPP. It’s a non-systematic or non-alphabetical and work-in-progress glossary of typographic tools and techniques. Various tools that you might already know or that might make you curious. The one thing all these tools have in common is that they are sometimes tricky, but always fun to use.
L as in linoleum cut
The most frequent used and therefore most important material at Typographic Printing Program definitely is Linoleum. I counted, 81 out of 114 posters produced at TPP from 2016 to 2023 used linoleum for their poster.
Linoleum is a great material. It is versatile
Materialbeschaffenheit (Haptik, Farbe, Duft)
Seitenverkehrt übertragen
mounted on wooden block–type height (wird in einem anderen Eintrag erklärt)
Werkzeug zum Bearbeiten
trickyness + Vorteile
L as in Ludlow slugs
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F as in felt tip pen
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I as in iterations
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P as in paper angles
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More tools and techniques will follow! Stay tuned.
Images by Dennis Wittmann.