April 29, 2009 – 12:43 pm
Welcome to the second ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week I am offering the prize of a handsome letterpress poster (including free International p&p), hand-printed by The Occasional Print Club, of which I am a member. The prize can be viewed here.
As before, answers must be posted on this Blog (as a [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in What Face Wednesday, letterpress, typography
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Tagged Amsterdam Typefoundry, Identification, Imre Reiner, Reiner Script, The Occasional Print Club, Type, typefaces, typography, What Face Wednesday
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Since the foundation of the Druckladen des Gutenberg Museums (Printing Workshop of the Gutenberg Museum) in 1990, the city of Mainz has hosted educational letterpress and printmaking workshops for visitors and children of school age and upwards.
I visited the Druckladen some ten years ago and found its’ workshop occupying two floors and very well equipped [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in Education, letterpress, printing, printmaking, typography, wood type
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Tagged BuchKinder-Werkstatt, Dr Otto Martin, Druckladen, Education, Gutenberg Museum, letterpress, Mainz, typography, Workshop
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April 27, 2009 – 12:52 pm
I am grateful to Johno over at We Love Typography for letting me know about this movie. Enjoy!
Today I am launching a weekly series of typeface identification competitions, entitled ‘What Face Wednesday’. I will announce the start of each competition via my Twitter feed at a random time each Wednesday. A different prize will be offered each week and this week’s prize is any one hand-printed letterpress greeting card (including free International [...]
I am in the midst of taking proofs of my entire collection of woodletter and it has become a monumental undertaking! In the meantime I have designed and printed a poster that, although not exhaustive, shows the primary type styles held within my collection.
The range of type styles is matched by the wide range of [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in letterpress, typography, woodletter
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Tagged Antique Old Style Bold, Bold Latin, Decorated French Antique, Decorated Sans Surryphs, Elongated Sans Surryphs, Expanded Antique, Expanded Grotesque, French Antique, Gill Sans, Grotesque, Latin Elongated, letterpress, Old Style Grotesque, Ornamented Wide Latin, Pointed Antique, typefaces, wooden type, woodletter
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The Letterpress Exchange Group was formed around 1992 by Claire Bolton of The Alembic Press as a forum that was exclusively letterpress, and small enough to make the task of printing not too onerous.
Membership is strictly limited to twenty-five members and operates a policy that if one does not contribute, one does not receive the [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in Letterpress Exchange Group, letterpress, printing, typography
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Tagged Alan Brignull, Alembic Press, Ben Brundell, Claire Bolton, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, Ericius Press, Incline Press, Justin Knopp, LEG, letterpress, Letterpress Exchange Group, Palliser Press, Reading University, The Happy Dragons' Press, The Hedgehog Press, The Old Forge Press, typography
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Here is an interesting example of hand typesetting; from the back cover of the Spring 1937 edition (Volume XXXVI, No. 1) of The Monotype Recorder. Personally, I feel the mix of Albertus Titling (Series 481) and Sachsenwald-Gotisch (Series 457) is rather clumsy, although it is undoubtedly a striking piece of letterpress typesetting.
A short while ago some mystery objects fell into my possession and it soon transpired that they were, as I had suspected, tools used in the craft of letterpress typesetting. The tools in question are two beautifully handmade filing blocks, in which a piece of metal type can be firmly held so that the back [...]
