Artist Biography
Lucas is a letterpress printer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received a BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2014 and has been working as the head printer at Bay View Printing Co. since 2015. He exhibited his first piece at New Impressions in 2020 and has shown in various exhibits around Milwaukee.

Description of Process
Tape Type is a series that was created for the “36 Days of Type” design challenge. Each letter of the alphabet, plus numbers and an ampersand, were printed using three layers of packing tape. The type is based off of an existing wood typeface. The wood type was letterpress printed, scanned, digitally enlarged, inkjet printed, cut out, and traced onto a Boxcar base. The outline was used as a guide to adhere crumpled up packing tape to the base and printed on a Vandercook No. 4 in yellow, pink, and blue.