This will be my last blog for a week or so, so before I sign out I just wanted to share something that provided me with a bit of welcome light relief earlier.

The website thehumanprinter came to my attention via the happy accident of a random interweb search. Looking at it reminded me of being utterly captivated, well over twenty years ago now, when as a wide-eyed work experience newbie the concept of four-colour halftone printing was explained to me.

I rushed home with a set of progressives of a woman's face and explained the magic to my parents in a sort of Bob Dylan-esque style, showing them how the colours changed with the addition of each separation, then the final "photographic" result. Ah, happy days.

The team at thehumanprinter must be similarly captivated, as the mere thought of the attention to detail, let alone the time, required to recreate individual halftone dots using felt-tip pens is enough to give me an immediate stabbing pain in the temple.

I was particularly amused by the descriptions of the various "printers" producing these artworks, which include: "works intermittently but when running is brilliant", "fast and inaccurate", and "slow, tends to thew [sic] up the paper, smudging sometimes occurs". Such epithets could be accurately applied to a few bits of kit I've worked on over the years.