#afflatus

afflatusə-flā′təs

noun

A strong creative impulse, especially as a result of divine inspiration.

A blowing or breathing on, as of wind; a breath or blast of wind.

A Book of Poems

Most times, when people have to put together a book they have written, their first thought would be to get it bound. But with the limited choices here in Singapore, many will end up using the plastic ring binding that we often see used for notes or documents. It comes with a flimsy plastic front and a lack-lustre card backing.

My customer decided to give his wife a birthday surprise by getting her book of poems bound into a nice proper book. He chose a purple book cloth and when I showed him some flottage papers I made earlier, said that his wife will definitely love those. So I made more flottage papers, matching the purple to the book cloth. 

Instead of printing the front title plate using the computer, I decided to take out the Adana 8x5 which was sitting at the top of my shelf, collecting dust, and do a nice letterpress title plate. It was a coincidence that I had almost the same lead fonts as what she had on her original title page. A little extra effort that makes the title plate more timeless and classic, and it definitely surpasses the quality of a standard print from a modern printer. 

May Snoops protecc you from eebil