Ray Nichols
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Ray Nichols
Lead Graffiti, Newark, Delaware
Letterpress printing sunch 2002
- Letterpress broadside
- Title: “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of reality.” Quote from Edgar Allan Poe.
- Print size: 18″ x 24″
- Runs: 2 ink runs (black and silver) over a two-color Lead Graffiti “Ink Pull”
- Typography: ShahnTorn, the main typography, was designed by Lead Graffiti. The text is generally about 18 lines, and was cut from a clear acrylic sheet, with the area outside of the main type printed, leaving the text blank.
- Press: printed on a Washington #5 iron hand press.

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- Blank Note Books
- Title: “Bernie Books”
- Book size: 3.875″ x 5.875″, 40 pages
- Covers tend to utilize Lead Graffiti ink pulls, with “Take Courage” title overlayed with black on white print of the word “Courage”
- Press: printed on a Vandercook SP-15
