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Creating letterpress artwork

Creating letterpress artwork - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating letterpress artwork

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- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. Design historically speaking has been closely associated with printing in all its various forms, and in a digital age, designers love to embrace time-tested old print technologies because they offer tactile aesthetics that simply cannot be done with modern printing methods. Letterpress printing is one of the oldest forms of printing dating back to Johann Gutenberg in the 1400s. Regardless of how old this technology is, it's one of the most popular print formats in design circles today. So in this movie, I'm going to show you how I went about creating digital-based vector artwork that'll work well for a letterpress printing project. So let's jump into it and get started. Now, I was asked by a paper vendor, Neenah Papers, who was one of the sponsors for the Beauty of Letterpress, which was a campaign they did which combined beautiful paper, Neenah makes uncoated paper stock, and the technology of letterpress printing. And…

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