Josefa Yáñez R.

Palpitar

A poster hand-printed from laser-cut relief blocks, made from a poem.

Year
2025
Role
Graphic design and printing
The brief

A poster built from laser-cut blocks and printed by hand in the woodcut tradition, taking a poem as its starting point. It leans on materiality and contrast as its expressive tools, reading the content and feeling of the text into a graphic composition that stays handmade and experimental.

A hand points at a freshly printed poster, pegged to the workshop's drying line.
Process
Two hands spread dark red ink across the laser-cut block with a spatula.
Inking the laser-cut block before each pass.
Process
Hands feeding a sheet of paper into the workshop's hand press.
Paper going into the hand press.
A person holds up a finished poster in front of the drying line.
A fresh copy on its way to the drying line.
Vector artwork
The printed Palpitar poster: a red figure sits hugging its knees and holding a blue carnation. Above it, hand-drawn lettering reads «La memoria evoca el palpitar».
Red and purple.
The same poster in another pair of inks: the figure in crimson, the lettering and the carnation in navy.
Crimson and blue.
The same poster printed in a single black ink.
A single ink.
Final pieces
A stack of freshly printed posters in red and blue, resting on the workshop table.
The finished run on the workshop table.
Academic project