The Heart Print

What's the correlation between the graphic heart shape and the blood-pumping organ in our chests? Actually, not much. It's been used since about the 1400s, but nobody really knows why. This print explains the most important muscle in your body with modern simplicity, using the shape we all associate with love and happiness. 

Archie Archambault is a designer and printer living in New York. His designs are letterpress printed: the image is a raised surface that is pressed into the paper, giving it a deep tactile impression. Most of the rules of graphic design owe some debt to letterpress. Typesetters would painstakingly assemble every single individual character into sheets of text, newspapers, leaflets and much much more. Since every printed word needed to be manually aligned, strict standards of layout, spacing, kerning, and leading were developed.

Made in: USA

Product: Letterpress Art Print

Dim: 8'' x 8''

Item Number: 8x8