03.4 / Typographic Ornament Series
The ‘Typographic Ornament’ prints are constructed from a unique collection of metal type borders and ornaments. Mr Smith is in no way fancy – and as an antidote to the decorative nature of the material — the borders are formally hand-set on a simple grid system to reinforce the beauty of the original cuts and the grace of the formal arrangement. They are made in very limited editions and are printed on BFK Rives & Somerset cotton printmaking paper.
03.4 / Typographic Ornament (Landscape)
Typographic Ornament — A Landscape
Letterpress Print — Pink on Grey
Designed & hand-set
with Metal type Ornaments
& Printed in a Limited Edition of 3 /
in Fluorescent Pink ink
on 280gsm BFK Rives Grey
with a blind de-bossed credit /
760 x 380mm (30 x 15 inches)
Signed by the Artist
Edition
1/3 — sold
2/3 — sold
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Typographic Ornament — A Landscape
Letterpress Print — Gold on Grey
Designed & hand-set
with Metal type Ornaments
& Printed in a Limited Edition of 3 /
in Metallic Gold ink
on 280gsm BFK Rives Grey
with a blind de-bossed credit /
760 x 380mm (30 x 15 inches)
Signed by the Artist
Edition
1/3 — sold
2/3 — sold
3/3 — sold
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Typographic Ornament — A Landscape
Letterpress Print — Orange on Grey
Designed & hand-set
with Metal type Ornaments
& Printed in a Signed Limited Edition of 3 /
in Orange ink on 280gsm BFK Rives Grey /
with a blind de-bossed credit
760 x 380mm (30 x 15 inches)
Signed by the Artist
Edition
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2/3 — sold
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Typographic Ornament — A Landscape
Letterpress Print — Dark Grey on White
Designed & hand-set
with Metal type Ornaments
& Printed in a Signed Limited Edition of 3 /
in Gun metal Grey ink
on 1450gsm Zerkall Smooth /
with a blind de-bossed credit
760 x 380mm (30 x 15 inches)
Signed by the Artist
Edition
1/3 — sold
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3/3 — sold
Typographic Ornament — A Landscape
Letterpress Print — Gold on Tan
Designed & hand-set with Metal type Ornaments
& Printed in a Signed Limited Edition of 3 /
in Gold ink
on 280gsm BFK Rives Tan /
with a blind de-bossed credit
760 x 380mm (30 x 15 inches)
Signed by the Artist
Edition
1/3 — sold
2/3 — sold
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Typographic Ornament — A Landscape
Letterpress Print — Gold on Black
Designed & hand-set
with Metal type Ornaments
& Printed in a Signed Limited Edition of 3 /
in Gold ink
on 280gsm BFK Rives Black /
with a blind de-bossed credit
760 x 380mm (30 x 15 inches)
Edition
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2/3 — sold
3/3 — sold
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Typographic Ornament — A Landscape
Letterpress Print — Black on Black
Designed & hand-set
with Metal type Ornaments
& Printed in a Signed Limited Edition of 3 /
in Black ink
on 280gsm BFK Rives Black /
with a blind de-bossed credit
760 x 380mm (30 x 15 inches)
03.4 / Typographic Ornament (Portrait)
Pink on Grey
Edition
1/3 — sold
2/3 — sold
3/3 — sold
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Orange on Grey
Edition
1/3 — sold
2/3 — sold
3/3 — sold
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Gold on Grey
Edition
1/3 — sold
2/3 — sold
3/3 — sold
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Gold on Tan
Edition
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Grey on White
Edition
1/3 — sold
2/3 — sold
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Typographic Ornament — A Portrait
Letterpress Print — Black on Black
Designed & hand-set
with Metal type Ornaments
& Printed in a Signed Limited Edition of 3 /
in Black ink
on 280gsm BFK Rives Black /
with a blind de-bossed credit
760 x 380mm (30 x 15 inches)
Edition
1/3 — Sold
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Typographic Ornament — A Portrait
Letterpress Print — Gold on Black
Designed & hand-set
with Metal type Ornaments
& Printed as a one off
in Black ink
on 280gsm BFK Rives Black /
with a blind de-bossed credit
760 x 380mm (30 x 15 inches)
Edition
1/1 — BUY THIS
03.4 / Typographic Ornament (Imperial)
03.4 / Typographic Ornament 1240
03.4 / A study in Ornamental Composition
03.4 / A Ornamented Landscape
A Map of Mayfair: An Ornamented Landscape
A set of 4 prints
Designed, set & printed
in lead typographic ornament & metal type
in three colours /
on 280gsm BFK Rives Grey /
760 x 3560mm (30 x 22 inches)
in a Limited Edition of 6 /
Signed by the Artist
Edition
1/6 — sold
2/6 — sold
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3.4 / Glaukonome — The Nereid
Commissioned by Karoline Newman as a response to ‘Simon Lewty & The Nereids’ at The Lettering arts Trust, Snape Maltings, Suffolk. Depictions of the ‘Mythical Nereids’ created by 26 Artists represented by the Lettering Arts Trust.
GLAUKONOME
The Nereid of the ‘Mastering the Grey’ sea
(framed)
Designed / hand-set / composed
by Kelvyn Laurence Smith
with a careful selection of monotype ornaments / decorative borders & typographic sorts
Printed letterpress on a Vandercook Universal 4 /
in various Greys / Greens & Silvers /
on a GF Smith 270gsm Colourplan Real Grey
in a very limited edition of 6
12 x 12inches (300x300mm)
Signed on the reverse by the artist
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12.1 / Smith’s Rules — Type Scales
Smith’s Rules
72 & 36 pica boxed Wooden Type scales /
Laser cut & etched pica Type Scale with 12 point measurement system /
6 picas wide & 1 pica deep / for practical use in any thoughtful letterpress worksh0p /
Presented in a recycled Grey Board stitched box / with a laser cut inset to hold the measures
3.2 / Imperial Series
03.2 / The composition of type metal
A specimen of ‘Grotesque’ metal types held in the case at Mr Smith’s Letterpress Workshop. Made with care for the ’94 Elements’ project (an idea by Mike Paterson). Designed, set & printed with the help of the four ‘young turks’ at the Camberwell School of Art Press, — Alex, Freddy, Jake & Paul in 2012.
more detail . . .
The composition of type metal
Designed, hand-set & printed Letterpress
Printed with Light & Dark Grey & 072 Blue ink on 280gsm BFK Rives Grey
Imperial size — 30 x 22 inches
760 x 560 mm)
In printing, metal type is cast from a combination of three metallic elements. The percentage of each metal depends on the usage of the type but the general rule for type held in the case is:
74 percent Lead: heavy, poisonous, malleable & ducktile but soft & weak.
18 percent Antimony: brittle, but when alloyed strengthens the metal.
10 percent Tin: soft & ductile but wear resistant & fluid when molten to give a finer face to the type.
3.2 / 6 & 9 Characters in search of a Case
more detail . . .
72 & 36 pica boxed Wooden Type scales /
Laser cut & etched pica Type Scale with 12 point measurement system /
6 picas wide & 1 pica deep / for practical use in any thoughtful letterpress worksh0p /
Presented in a recycled Grey Board stitched box / with a laser cut inset to hold the measures
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3.2 / Grisaille series
more detail . . .
72 & 36 pica boxed Wooden Type scales /
Laser cut & etched pica Type Scale with 12 point measurement system /
6 picas wide & 1 pica deep / for practical use in any thoughtful letterpress worksh0p /
Presented in a recycled Grey Board stitched box / with a laser cut inset to hold the measures
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