Letter Press Postcard

William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence:

This postcard was my contribution to a group project at Cambridge School of Art. 132 lines of William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence has been presented across 66 postcards.

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The design solution 

The postcard material is linen card stained with oil to make the card look subtly greasy. I selected Baskerville for the typeface, and used the italics font for “them & thou” to emphasie Blake’s concern for humanity.