This is a letterpress print by Anthony Burrill; I have wanted it for a very long time. Isn't it marvelous? It's already in its third printing. Just look at that simplicity, and admire the almost rustic lines of the wood block print process--no two would be the same. There is a vitality to this print, mark my overly-attached words.
No matter how trendy it seems to be in typography these days (and yes, I just used the words "trendy" and "typography" in the same sentence), I just never tire of the powerful simplicity in big words in a white space. The Keep Calm Gallery's print collection more or less fulfils this hole in my day.
"Work Hard and Be Nice to People."
"Do What You Love and Love What You Do."
"Freedom is in Peril."
I could live by these words. In fact, I more or less do live by them. I'm pretty sure you could convince me to do anything if you churned that sans-serif suggestion out of a letterpress on some satisfyingly thick paper.
But I just... I can't justify dropping what will probably come to a cool Benjamin on the Burril print when I already have spent enough money this year on typographic art. I mean, I CAN justify it, but let me tell you, it is NOT convincing. No matter how worthy I think the cause is, somehow the government doesn't agree with me that typography should be a tax break. Go figure! It's a war fought in vain, my friends.
I've already brought this beauty home this year. It came all the way from foggy Londontown! Many reproductions have cropped up in the past year, and this 1939 British propaganda posters have become almost trendy. But I wouldn't drop my change on any old reproduction...no my beauty is straight from the source, beautifully hand printed on Rives heavyweight paper (mouldemade in France!) with deckle edges. You can smell the peril, I swear to God.
...This is why Stuff White People Like has me on speed dial, isn't it? I do this to myself.
Postscript: I might make an exception for this mouth-watering Douglas Wilson print. IT IS PRACTICALLY FREE. 
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