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Letterpress United Talk

Updated: Dec 14, 2020

• Mark McKellier - CNC, wood type & custom works

• Ryan Molloy - CNC, experimental applications

• Dafi Kühne - Laser, pantograph and casting plastic





Mark McKellier


-Mark uses hornbeam wood

-Designs are developed in 3D software


Ryan Molloy

-Ryan uses end grain maple for finer work

-Found through research that MDF doesn't work for finer work

-Asks the question, what can digital technology lend to traditional techniques?

-Halftone dots on CNC at small size are hard to do on the machine Ryan has so he designs oval shapes



Dafi Kuhne

-What is new with digital? How can we experiment with it?

-Is poster type in the 20th century still moveable type or recyclable?

-Dafi created Wood type now book

-Experiments using eg. strings around laser cut type

-Dafi had no access to a laser cutter after finishing his degree

-Bought a Pentagraph cutter to cut type

-Dafi uses pear wood (steam treated with shellac)

-Uses wood type to convey a loud and rough concept and clean new type otherwise.



-Richard Ardagh of New North Press creates 3D printed type

-The typefaces he creates are specifically designed for a 3D printer

-Need to look at the type and the work to see which machine will fit (CNC, 3D etc)

-You can cut any face digitally, but that isn't embracing the machine and using it to its full advantage.

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