This is one of Ray's favorite letterpress pieces. Justin Howes, curator of the Type Museum in London, was here to speak. The talk was about his digitizing the typeface Caslon from original printings. Ray took a piece of plywood and cut the surface into 3/8" squares, then he broke off the ones that weren't required to show the Caslon Q.
Ray was sitting in his living room popping off pieces with a screwdriver and Jill walked by and said, "Isn't it supposed to be backwards?" Ray had done the letter right-reading. Fortunately he had cut two boards while he was at it.
Originally, there were to be two posters. The second one would have been a large A for Answer with the word "No. Ray just put an asterisk after the headline and the answer at the bottom of the body copy.
The main text of this piece is also included in 'typeart' where you can look at it in a magnified version.
18" x 24", 50 copies
Poster:
Justin Howes typography lecture
The image on the right shows the plywood letterform being printed.
