Empire State 1
The last apartment my wife and I lived in before moving out of the city was a 2-bedroom walk-up on the corner of 27th Street and Third Avenue. Our windows faced west -- and we had a great view of the top of the Empire State Building.
In 1991 I cut two linoleum blocks based on the view through our living room window. It took me nine years to get around to printing them.
Specs:
The piece is printed on standard (cheap) light gray card stock purchased from Staples. I cut it down from 8 1/2" by 11" to 5 1/2" wide by 5 3/4" high.
The linoleum blocks are both 2" square. They are "type-high" at .918". Each printed piece took four impressions -- yellow block, black block, black type, black type on the reverse.
The typeface is Optima Italic designed by Hermann Zapf in 1958 for the Stempel foundry. I purchased the Optima used from Don Black Linecasting Service. The type on the reverse is Spartan -- a typeface released by ATF in 1936 as an American copy of Futura (Bauer Type Foundry), a Paul Renner design.
The helicopter is a copper die from Owosso Graphic Arts.