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Letterpress Posters: Cut, Collaborate, & Print!

  • Signal Return 9301 Kercheval Avenue Detroit, MI, 48214 United States (map)

Instructed by Maddy Underwood and Elizabeth Isakson-Dado

Price: $100

Class Size: Maximum 6


In this fast-paced workshop, we'll embrace spontaneity while printing 2-color posters with craft foam and vintage wood type. Each participant will create a freehand cut-out shape in craft foam, as a group we will lay out the shapes as one collaborative background layer. Once our backgrounds are printed, each participant will learn how to typeset a phrase to print on top using Signal-Return's collection of antique wood type.

This workshop will be led by our visiting artist in residence, Maddy Underwood. This is a type and shape based poster workshop. Come with an idea of shapes to cutout and what your posters might say. Think short and sweet, try to keep text within 6 words or less and/or 40 letters.

The end result will be a set of posters to take home that is both collaborative and unique. All skill levels are welcome!



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