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images of a recent and unfinished 'work on paper' I have been focusing on, drawing over a photograph of a tray of letter press type on newsprint. rather interested in the incorporation of printing methods in the process, and newsprint was important as the material used, as was the current state this particular piece of newsprint is in - quite dishevelled. would be interested in any feedback - without my usual critique cronies around it is difficult to get any constructive criticism on my work.

Love Letters

Complete set of lead type at Ri Xing Typography, one of the last factories in Taiwan to produce traditional Chinese type.

But in practice, it was not suitable for Chinese—a language with over 45,000 unique characters. Typesetting in Chinese took “minding p’s and q’s” to a whole new level, and accuracy was challenging when characters were essentially compounds of many radicals and ideograms. Running a Chinese letterpress shop required an enormous storage space and basic literacy of at least 4,000 commonly used characters.

read more about the demise of movable type in China