LIA Queensland: Letterpress
@ The Bacon Factory
On Tuesday evening, LIA Queensland (Lithographic Institute of Australia) invited members and guests to look back at the world that was letterpress printing, with a visit to the Bacon Factory at Design College Australia (DCA).
The Bacon Factory and all its letterpress goodness was created through passion and a commitment to the craft of printing by designer, educator, curator and dreamer, Clint Harvey. Letterpress has been missing from the design scene for the past 20 years. That is, until this dedicated group of letterpress lovers at DCA took on the task of preserving the equipment, to rediscover the techniques and preserve the past for the future.
During the evening, members and guests delved into the history and gained an understanding to letterpress and its origins. Various forms of type were explored, from chromatic to wood and cast metal.
Guests were fortunate to have the rare opportunity to create their own personal type from metal.
The challenge for we Salty folk now – to create some fabulous designs which just HAVE to be printed Letterpress!!!
Because everything is better with a sprinkle of salt!
SALT.Shaker
@ The Bacon Factory