Case study · 2024
Wushan Script
A piece honouring the client's late grandfather, built around a poem he had written in classical Chinese calligraphy.
- Place
- Antwerp, BE
- Scale
- 1 disc
- Lead
- 3–5 business days
Client
Private gift · Antwerp
- Discs
- 1
- Source
- Original calligraphy
- Print passes
- 1 dense black
- Lead time
- 5 days
The work
The challenge
Brushstroke calligraphy is unforgiving — any softening of the edges and the personality of the hand disappears. The disc's curve also meant the composition had to balance visually, not just align to a grid.
Our approach
The original brushwork was scanned at high resolution, vectorised with the slight imperfections of the original brush retained, then re-balanced over the disc geometry so the characters breathe around the centre hole. Printed in a single dense black pass for maximum edge crispness against the mirror ground.
The outcome
Boxed with the original scan and a translation card. Hung above the client's writing desk in Antwerp.
In their words
The brush is his. Seeing it on the disc — that's new, but it's still him.
Materials & build
What's in the piece.
Dimensions
120 mm disc · 220 mm floating frame
- 011 mirror-grade salvaged disc
- 02Vectorised scan of original brushwork
- 03Single dense black UV pass
- 04Matte black floating frame
In situ
The piece, from a few angles.
Before & after
Drag to see the restoration.
Every disc starts scratched, dusty, on its way to a bin. We hand-polish, mask, and print — turning a forgotten silver circle into the piece on the right.
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