The pale blue deboss.

Carl Sagan wrote The Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space in response to a photograph of Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager I spacecraft from a then-record distance of 6 billion km (3.7 billion miles) from our planet. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a tiny dot (0.12 pixel in size) against the vastness of space.

This body of work used material from Sagan's piece as the fodder for typographic experimentation with both a digital and analog print component. A limited run of large-scale prints challenged the capacity of photopolymer plate letterpress printing, with mixed components between type and image layers seeking multiple pulls on different presses. A set of small-scale "sprints" accompany the full size pieces; a select number of these smaller works were screenprinted alongside archival digital prints.

WORK  //  letterpress  +  silkscreen  +  sprinting  +  typographic experimentation