Retsop – Drop Caps


Retsop – Drop Caps
A short story about a girl who, at a certain point, is no longer able to pronounce the letter "w". The text is typeset with Garaldus lead movable type, with a poster on the back printed in silkscreen in two colours. The title is typeset with Semplicità movable type and printed on a glassine paper sleeve. If you read backward the word “poster”, it spells “retsop”.
Concept: Nello Russo (SO–AND–SO) Illustrations: Dario Quatrini Texts: Andrew Losowsky Silkscreen printing: Paolo Berra Typesetting, letterpress printing: Archivio Tipografico Paper: Fedrigoni Materica Gesso 180gsm Sleeve: Fedrigoni GSK Closed format: 25×17.5 cm Open format: 50×70 cm Language: English Limited edition of 300 hand-numbered copies Torino, 2013