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Description:	Original Broadside: Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts at the FAU Libraries Letterpress. Edition of 15.This broadside is from the collection of a historic suite of hand-printed literary broadsides which are a part of the Al-Mutannabi Street Starts Here broadside project at the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts at the FAU Libraries. Posters are a wonderful conduit that allows any author to communicate their own beliefs and feelings relating to situations or events. Subsequently they can offer a freedom of speech in any political arena. The potency of the political poster is still present even in today’s digitally communicated age, allowing a declaration for change in areas of social or political unrest. I wanted to make a statement but reference the modern digital word. The poster was printed without a press! The process was to simply ink-up each colour and place paper over the inked surface and apply pressure with another roller. The result is not a crisp clean image and each print is quite different from the next. I wanted to ‘communicate’ rather than ‘decorate’ the statement. The paper I chose were old prints from my studio so each print has a fragment of another work on its reverse. The work combines vintage wooden letterpress and a modern woodcut interpretation of a ‘wingdings’ icon.
Origin:	2009
Created By:	Middleton, Carl
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Publisher:	NEAT-Information Architecture Environment (UK)
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/29
Collection:	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	broadsides letterpress printing art

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