Even though this is a very simple design (and simple is hard for me, I like to busy everything up) I wanted something very clean.

However, to get an embossing die that big that would not crack under 4000 pounds of stamping pressure was a serious challenge, this poster actually was begun in january and took 3 months to make.

It might not look like much, but no company I called all over the U.S. had ever made a plate that big (and this is a small poster for me, only 14" x 20" )

So, we had to print about 1000 posters in order to get about 300 good ones, with the color registration etc.

I still have to go through the stack and pull out the bad ones. We had to hand feed these into a giant stamping machine, just that part took 3 days, 8 hours a day, to correct any shifting of pressure or alignment.

Such a simple poster, such a complicated process. Also, there are a few test prints, just stamped on white or different samples of paper with no colored ink, these look cool too.