bodoni love

I'm very excited to be doing a short course in Letterpress, the practice of hand setting print using little squares of lead type. It is amazing to get to know the history of typography, the points, the picas, the way it used to be done in the good ol' days. For this project we have to create a poster displaying Ultra Bodoni. Hopefully, if our work is good enough, it will be included in a newspaper A-Z of typefaces which is being produced by the letterpress department. Below are a few posters featuring Ultra Bodoni that I have been looking at for inspiration. I've never really used Bodoni before but, having seen what can be done with it, I can't wait to get started. So watch this space!