For us, letterpress has always been an escape from digital, a return to traditional – pre-digital – skills and processes, but always applied in a contemporary rather than nostalgic way. Using old technology for new purposes. Beatrice Warde captured this sentiment far more eloquently than we ever could in her quote about things ‘that are too valuable to throw away being carried forward’. So it was her wise words that we based our print on.

The full quote has been set in 12pt and 18pt Caslon, flanked either side by 14-line wood type, bleeding off so that ‘carried forward’ is continuously carried forward to the next print.

Printed in two colours in a limited edition of 30. (NB—These are artist proofs and sit outside the edition.)

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Edition of 30
230mm x 230mm
Fedrigoni Materica Gesso