World’s Largest Printing Type?

Brooklyn-based typographer  Nick Sherman has just created what he believes to be the world’s largest printing type. Standing at 576 lines pica (8 feet) tall, I’m inclined to agree! Nick designed, produced, and printed these wooden letters for the Wood Type Evolved exhibition at Columbia College Chicago.

Nick Sherman standing with his 576 lines pica, or 8 feet wood type (image © Nick Sherman 2011)

Nick Sherman standing with his 576 lines pica, or 8 feet wood type letters (image © Nick Sherman 2011)

World’s largest movable letter ‘T’ alongside the print Nick Sherman made from it (image © Nick Sherman 2011)

576 lines pica (8 feet) tall letter ‘T’ alongside the print Nick Sherman made from it (image © Nick Sherman 2011)

World’s largest movable type and prints drying (image © Nick Sherman 2011)

Nick Sherman’s 576 lines pica (8 feet) tall printing type and equally large prints drying (image © Nick Sherman 2011)

More images showing the process employed to create this type can be viewed on  Nick Sherman’s Flickr Photostream.

This entry was written by Justin Knopp, posted on September 6, 2011 at 5:41 pm, filed under letterpress, printing, typography, wood type, woodletter and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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