Moleskine Monday: Celebrating The Gettysburg Address

Letter-pressed Moleskine cahiers featuring quotes from the Gettysburg Address:

Letter-Pressed Notebooks Celebrate The Gettysburg Address | Co.Design | business + design

 

“To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, designer Craig Welsh decided to bring these timeless words into people’s daily lives. Through a Kickstarter campaign, Welsh successfully funded a “typographic letterpress celebration” of the address. He used his vintage letterpress to print a series of key lines from Lincoln’s speech onto the covers of a series of Moleskine notebooks: “All Men Are Created Equal,” and “Of the People,” “By the People,” “For the People.” Welsh has also printed the entire address on a series of high-quality posters, using a copper plate to mimic 19th-century printing processes.”

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