I’ve been experimenting with lasercutting type-high wood to make letterpress blocks for letterpress printing (read more & pretty pictures here). Since someone asked on Bluesky, I’m now sharing some of the recent files I’ve lasercut, which are free to use with a CC-BY-NC license, which means you need to credit me when sharing them (Amanda Wyatt Visconti / AmandaVisconti.com) and cannot sell them nor include them in a sold thing.

You can use these for stickers or other purposes; to lasercut them for printing on wood, lino, or other materials, reflect (flip) the images horizontally before carving, so they read correctly when pressed against paper with ink. Here’s an example of one of the images I flipped and lasercut into wood for letterpress printing use:

Photo of a block of wood in a lasercutter, being cut to show a historical illustration of a Luddite, and the text "critical tech! no 'innovation' serving profit over people". Photo is from after 5 total lasercutter passes. Photo digitally flipped for readability.

“made with <3 by” with checkboxes for trans ally or trans printer; & fill-in trans pride flag

Download as: SVG or PNG. (CC-BY-NC Amanda Wyatt Visconti.)

Adobe Illustrator design intended for creating letterpress printing blocks by cutting via lasercutter onto wood, to use to print the image to paper with ink; to achieve this, the black & white colors are inverted. The image will also need to be horizontally flipped, so that when the block is pressed to paper the inked image is legible; but for social media viewing I have left it unflipped. The design is the text "made with love by" followed by checkboxes next to the options "trans ally!" and "trans printer!", followed by the outline for a trans flag you can color in after letterpress printing

“made by a trans ally!” & “made by a trans printer!” with fill-in trans pride flag

Download as: SVG or PNG. (CC-BY-NC Amanda Wyatt Visconti.)

Adobe Illustrator design intended for creating letterpress printing blocks by cutting via lasercutter onto wood, to use to print the image to paper with ink; to achieve this, the black & white colors are inverted. The image will also need to be horizontally flipped, so that when the block is pressed to paper the inked image is legible; but for social media viewing I have left it unflipped. The design is “made by a trans ally!” text next to the outline of a trans flag, which can be filled in later with color

Download as: SVG or PNG. (CC-BY-NC Amanda Wyatt Visconti.)

Adobe Illustrator design intended for creating letterpress printing blocks by cutting via lasercutter onto wood, to use to print the image to paper with ink; to achieve this, the black & white colors are inverted. The image will also need to be horizontally flipped, so that when the block is pressed to paper the inked image is legible; but for social media viewing I have left it unflipped. The design is “made by a trans printer!” text next to the outline of a trans flag, which can be filled in later with color

“made by a trans printer!” on manicule with Erin Moore’s Vision font on “trans”

Download as: SVG or PNG. (CC-BY-NC Amanda Wyatt Visconti.)

Adobe Illustrator design intended for creating letterpress printing blocks by cutting via lasercutter onto wood, to use to print the image to paper with ink; to achieve this, the black & white colors are inverted. The image will also need to be horizontally flipped, so that when the block is pressed to paper the inked image is legible; but for social media viewing I have left it unflipped. The design is a pointing hand that says "printed by a trans printer!" The word "trans" is on the back of the hand, in Erin Moore's groovy Vision font.

“we are older than your laws and we will outlive them”

The text in this design quotes the text from CoyoteSnout’s art, which quotes an old Yiddish lyric with a 20th-century history of resistance/defiance to Jewish persecution and murder (“we will outlive them”) put into the context of trans rights (there have always been trans people).

Download as: SVG or PNG. (CC-BY-NC Amanda Wyatt Visconti.)

Adobe Illustrator design intended for creating letterpress printing blocks by cutting via lasercutter onto wood, to use to print the image to paper with ink; to achieve this, the black & white colors are inverted. The image will also need to be horizontally flipped, so that when the block is pressed to paper the inked image is legible; but for social media viewing I have left it unflipped. The design is “CoyoteSnout’s text “we are older than your laws & we will survive them” in an antique broadside-style typeface, all over a flag-shaped rectangle divided by by bars into 5 equal sections so it can be later colored in with trans or other pride flag color schemes

“Critical tech! No ‘innovation’ serving profits over people” + Luddite

This uses a personally digitally edited version of a public domain image from a historical illustration of a Luddite.

Download as: SVG or PNG. (CC-BY-NC Amanda Wyatt Visconti.)

SVG file of an Adobe Illustrator design intended for creating a letterpress printing block by cutting via lasercutter onto wood, to use to print the image to paper with ink; to achieve this, the black & white colors are inverted. The image will also need to be horizontally flipped, so that when the block is pressed to paper the inked image is legible; but for social media viewing I have left it unflipped. The design shows a historical drawing of “the general of the Luddites” edited to be easier to print from a letterpress block, next to the text “critical tech forever! / no 'innovations' serving profit over people.” in antique broadside-style font.

“glitch their systems”

Download as: SVG or PNG. (CC-BY-NC Amanda Wyatt Visconti.)

Adobe Illustrator design intended for creating letterpress printing blocks by cutting via lasercutter onto wood, to use to print the image to paper with ink; to achieve this, the black & white colors are inverted. The image will also need to be horizontally flipped, so that when the block is pressed to paper the inked image is legible; but for social media viewing I have left it unflipped. The design is “glitch their systems” in a pixelated old English font