PARTIAL LETTERFORMS
SHOP EATS ITSELF
LOCK UPS
In letterpressed billboards, letters often had to straddle a paper seam, meaning a single piece of wood type needed to lock up in two separate forms. The solution: a saw. However, the severed letter forms could still be used for future jobs; the printer would lock up the halves and fill the gap with bar soap.
These samples employ this truncated typography to create abstract patterns and textures.
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