Cut Through ·· Pushed Out

Why this week’s poster

This one started with resistance.

I wasn’t interested in adding more.
I wanted to see what happened when I took material away.

Cutting creates clarity.
Pressure creates movement.

The phrase followed naturally:

Cut through ·· pushed out

It describes the form.
It also describes the feeling of progress when friction does the shaping.

The build

• Structure. A solid base shape treated as a single mass. Nothing decorative added.
• Subtraction. Circular and curved cuts carved directly through the form. No soft edges.
• Displacement. Elements feel pushed from behind rather than placed on top.
• Typography. Large, blunt type set beneath the surface. Revealed only where material gives way.
• Colour. High-contrast pairings to separate surface from depth. The text needed to feel physical, not graphic.
• Finish. Hard lighting to emphasise edges and depth shifts. Shadows do the explaining.

What worked

• The cuts read immediately. No explanation needed.
• The layered depth holds at distance and close up.
• The typography feels discovered, not applied.

What I’d push next time

• More variation in cut depth across the surface.
• A second pass on edge wear where pressure feels highest.
• A motion test where the text emerges gradually through the form.

Print details

• Edition: Open weekly release
• Sizes: A3

Close

Sometimes progress doesn’t come from adding effort.
It comes from pressure applied in the right place.

This poster records that moment.