I spent this morning doing letterpress. I haven’t done letterpress since the beginning of first year and wanted to get familiar with the process again. A while ago i had designed a typographic piece as a reaction to the brief ‘bad music’. The original brief was to create an positive image using the theme of ‘bad music’. No type allowed. Unfortunately the first thing that came to me was pure typography. I went on to create an image based piece but did not want to ignore my initial idea. Bad music is all based on taste. Personally I hate the band U2. My first image was computer generated. The wording was the most important thing. I placed each word on a different line, taking up the the majority of the length of the page as I wanted it to make a big statement. The words ‘i love you too’ are a big statement without the double meaning, so, in my opinion, need to be large.
Though i still did not think this as a finished piece. I was happy with the content, but not the aesthetics. I decided to refresh my letterpress knowledge and make this piece into a print.
I decided to change the typeface and the colour. The typeface relates more to the four words written. I chose a serif font as opposed to a sans serif as I felt reflected what was written better. The red relates to the theme of love, and also to U2′s album vertigo, which is a particular hate of mine.
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