NO to war...

 As part of an online letterpress poster call out (check out instagram #letterpressunited); we have both printed small posters saying No to war.  Barry's can be seen here.

Simple instructions - print the three words, in black, in your own language, and include your name and country.

I went for our beautiful Italian wood type Amalia (in both 30 and 25 cicero sizes) on soft Japanese papers.

I think this was my favourite of the paper -  loving that soft deckled edge at the top.

A much brighter whiter paper.

The bunch I printed.

It was interesting to me that I went for softness. The typeface Amelia has an Art Nouveau feel to it; curves with no really sharp edges .  The papers too were soft and light.  Perhaps  the materiality of my message was actually saying Yes to peace and kindness.

On a recent walk to town we passed a building called Banksia House - it has within it several shops and service - telecoms, real estate, dentist etc.

Well-named as it is planted out with Banksias and we stopped to look at the variety and the different stages of them and here's a few.

We really do have some extraordinary native flowers in our country.