For the letterpress workshop we were split up into teams of 4 and given newspapers to search for headlines. We were to pick a headline we thought was interesting and use it as the copy for our poster. In my group was Alex, Marissa, and Jill and the headline we chose was "She's a Bingo Maniac." Alex Cooper, the guy helping us, was a letterpress guru. When it came to helping us line things up, he got it perfect first try all three times. We decided to replace some of the letters from our headline with numbers and set it up in a grid. First, we printed the back of a letter block in red to get a square of woodgrain texture and then printed an "O" in red also, on top of the red square. The rest of the headline we printed in black.
The LCC (London College of Communications) was having their show at the same time as we did the letterpress workshop. I really liked their illustrative stuff and their sound stuff was pretty cool too. They had this wall that you could tap anywhere and it played a different pitch, that was fun when everyone was going at the same time. One thing that everyone thought was hilarious was the two seats with the strip of mirror in the middle. You sit down opposite someone and reflected in the mirror is a body part of yours, for example your eyes, on the face of the person opposite of you. We definitely came up with some interesting combinations, especially when you mix a boy and a girl. There was also these fish bowls with fish in them that when they swam over the sensors made different sounds, so the outcome was left entirely to the fish.
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