{"id":157,"date":"2022-04-26T16:49:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2025-01-17T05:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T05:01:15","slug":"notowar-letterpress-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/notowar-letterpress-united\/","title":{"rendered":"#notowar Letterpress United"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a reaction to the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, the Letterpress United team launched a call for anti-war posters to involve letterpress printers worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Ayako_Notowar01-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Ayako_Notowar01-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Ayako_Notowar01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Ayako_Notowar01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Ayako_Notowar01-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Ayako_Notowar01-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Ayako_Notowar01.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I took a Letterpress studio class at Columbia College Chicago taught by Richard Zeid and he always introduced us to the community of printmakers and great off-campus projects like this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"834\" height=\"834\" src=\"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/52225BCF-5FB4-4298-B2AD-A9A49113644C.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/52225BCF-5FB4-4298-B2AD-A9A49113644C.jpg 834w, https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/52225BCF-5FB4-4298-B2AD-A9A49113644C-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/52225BCF-5FB4-4298-B2AD-A9A49113644C-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/52225BCF-5FB4-4298-B2AD-A9A49113644C-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/52225BCF-5FB4-4298-B2AD-A9A49113644C-800x800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The prompt of the anti-war poster was to print &#8220;NO TO WAR&#8221; in your own language. Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have access to Japanese letter blocks here in the states so I decided to create them using geometric shapes and wiglets. I am very happy with the outcome of the pixel letters and it was a challenging yet inspiring project to work on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While printing this #notowar poster, I felt devastated and heartbroken for what is going on in Ukraine today, yet also empowered to create something that holds great meaning.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a reaction to the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, the Letterpress United team launched a call for anti-war posters to involve letterpress printers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[42,29,19,27,30,28,37,43,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayakooo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}