PEACE POSTERS

2026. Letterpress poster using various wood types, printed in Dense Black ink on vintage Centennial Cream stock in an unnumbered limited edition of 50 copies. Almost A2: 420 x 580mm. Ampersand press chop lower right corner and signed on the lower left.
Aus $50 each, with 75% of the sale going to Amnesty International. See below for ordering details.

This poster was printed in response to a call-out on Instagram from a young printer called Pax Libertas Press. It’s a great idea: letterpress printers around the world were invited to print an edition of a poster promoting peace, and 50% of the sales would go to Amnesty International.

I started printing something for this project at the start of 2026 and then got completely derailed by life, especially by the chance to have insulated walls installed into my new shed studio. If you know about letterpress, you’ll understand why it took me so long to start working again — to get to the walls, I had to move all my type cabinets, which meant taking out each heavy drawer of type, stacking them, moving the cabinet, repacking it, and then after the renovation was finished, painting the walls before doing it all again in reverse.

Anyhoo, I got onto it properly a few months ago – and then got distracted again – but finished it last week. So here, finally, is my poster, printed in an unnumbered edition of 50 copies, each bearing my embossed chop and my signature. Also, there’s a peep at the beautiful wood type used to print it. I locked it straight onto the press bed without a chase around it (for those who like a bit of technical detail).

The paper is a yellow-cream vintage stock called Centennial Cream, which is brighter and toothier than the tobacco-yellow paper I used for Scummo! And no two of the posters is exactly the same… I mean, the placement of the words is consistent, but because I let the small variations in height go “unpacked” to standardise the inking, the tone and coverage of the black varies slightly from print to print.

HOW TO PURCHASE ONE…

I’m finding my Square shop account to be annoying and obtruse – it’s days are numbered, I think – and also, if I sell to you through that, fees will be taken out that would be better off going to Amnesty International, so for this work I’d love you to email me with your contact details and tell me if you would like one or more posters (feel free to look at my shop if you want to add anything on to the poster request!) and I will send you an invoice for your order with payment details.

Please note that the project outline was for 50% of each sale to go to Amnesty International, but I want these to be cheap and cheerful, because there’s enough expensive stuff out there, and I like Amnesty, so I’m donating 75%.

Another reason for emailing me is that postage is cray cray these days. It would be impossible to tell you what P&P would be unless I know exactly where and how it’s travelling.

There are two options for sending:

• a rolled poster in a postal tube, which is treated as a parcel (which is where the prices hike), OR
• a folded poster in a rigid letter mailer, which is pretty cheap in Australia and the cheapest option for overseas postage.

They are light enough that there can be multiple posters in either format and it wouldn’t affect the postage rate, so if you want to buddy up with friends to have a single mailing event, that would be pretty cool. (Also, if you’re local to the Bega Valley, get in touch to collect a copy or two in person.)

So when you get in contact, tell me which postal option you’d like. I’m happy to outline the different options if you’re not sure. If you want to catch the Xmas postage specials, now is the time to get ordering. Here’s that email me link again.

Peace out, dudes.