Lego My Letterpress? Absolutely!

lego_letterpress1Just when you think you’ve seen about every iteration of letterpress printing, somebody raids the toy chest and whips up something new.

Scottish designer/illustrator/printmaker Levi Bunyan stumbled upon using LEGO building blocks to make printable typefaces. Reminiscent of dot-matrix printouts, the results are certainly interesting. And, as it turns out, Bunyan is not alone.

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Under the company name Physical Fiction, American graphic designers Samuel Cox and Justin LaRosa market a series of limited-edition prints (below) made using LEGOs on a Showcard proof press. (Previous prints were made on a Vandercook.) Many of the pieces were printed on Strathmore 300 Series Bristol sheets.

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