Dueling Boxes Press logo

For letterpress, we are to design a logo for a Private Press name we create for ourselves. Fortunately I came up with one of those during the first letterpress class I took last summer. Of course, with my lack-luster computing skills and all the free time we have at MICA, I haven't touched the idea since (except for wishing I had a small logo to print on the backs of things for identification!) Well now I have a good reason to make something amazing, and the more I think about it, the more I like the name I've chosen.

For the initial branding, I'm going to print up some posters. Not only do I like printing posters, but it allows me to use the pretty new wood type, and it buys me another week to design (read draw) the image for my logo (layout, select type, ect.). I'm working on something that mimics the old boxing match announcement poster from the beginning to the the middle of the 20th Century. The layout I like best will look something like this:



I really like the opposing sides look spatially and the textual layout was about what I was thinking for how my text should be apportioned. Something like this:

Dueling Boxes Press
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We challenge you [box]
[box] to challenge us
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Letterpress, sculpture, whatever.
We can take it