A woodblock print of Pratisara Dharani from the 700s. It’s a buddhist talisman written in Sanskrit and it was found in modern day China. Carrying printed texts like this was believed to be beneficial for the person in life or afterlife.
Source: Jahyun Kim (2020) Korean Single-Sheet Buddhist Woodblock Illustrated Prints Produced for Protection and Worship
From Fun With Your Typewriter, a book by Madge Roemer from 1956. Half of the book consists of detailed instructions on how to produce the works, sort of like software for humans. We covered the book back in 2012 but since then the book has been made available on archive.org thanks to Marcin Wichary. <3
Franklin D. Roosevelt, composed of 17,000 monotype characters and a tinted background in the shape of the head (1935). source
Valto Malmiola’s portrait of Sibelius, 1937. It was made with 30,000 so-called rules – strips of metal, often brass or type-cast metal, used for printing lines since the 1500’s.
More works by Valto Malmiola, made with the same technique, 1938-1943.
Images and info from Typographic Art of Valto Malmiola by Heikki Lotvonen, 2023. He mentions that for example Carl Fasol used this technique before Malmiola.
By Jurriaan Schrofer, perhaps in the 1960s? Via Maurice Meilleur.
From MAD Magazine, 1965. via rainemanisfake
50 vogels – a project to print 50 birds each with 16×16 LEGO pieces. Made by Roy Scholten and Martijn van der Blom, 2018. Prints are available to buy, and a book is coming in October. More info available here.
via printmag
Dino cards – printed with LEGO pieces as letterpress. Made by Roy Scholten and Martijin van der Blom, 2017. via printmag
