The Atelier Press came into being in 1970 as the private press of Stan Nelson. Stan has been interested in printing since the age of nine, and formerly operated as the Nelson Job Shop and later as Norse Custom Printing. After becoming aware of the world of Fine Printing, Stan chose to name his press [...]
Welcome to the twelfth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my Typoretum website.
This week I am looking for the name and designer(s) of the typeface shown below. Please email your answers to me; [...]
The exquisite example of hand lettering shown above was recently presented to me by my former printmaking tutor and friend, Roy Caplin (aka ‘RC Scryven’). What makes the piece extraordinary is that Roy has reversed the lettering so that it becomes illegible to the untrained eye, unless deciphered with the aid of a mirror. I [...]
The Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading has established a depository for sound recordings relating to printing history. The majority are interviews with trade and professional people involved with the printing industry and allied trades, design and education. The focus is broad but one aim is to document the transition [...]
Welcome to the eleventh ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week I am offering the prize of a pastiche Victorian letterpress poster (including free International p&p), hand-typeset and printed by myself on a mid-nineteenth century Columbian handpress. The prize can be viewed here.
All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one [...]
I’ve just had the pleasant surprise of discovering Woodtyper, an online journal by Nick Sherman that focusses on a subject close to my heart – wooden type! Nick states that he has been inspired to begin this online journal by the late Rob Roy Kelly and continues:
“I never had the pleasure of meeting Mr Kelly [...]
Welcome to the tenth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my Typoretum website.
This week I am looking for the name of the typeface and the typefoundry that first cast the typeface (in metal). [...]
Apologies for the absence of new posts on my blog recently but I have had my shirt sleeves permanently rolled up whilst out in my letterpress workshop (the ‘Typoretum’), working on many and varied bespoke printing projects.
One of these recent projects involved typesetting a wedding invitation in Garamond Italic with swash capitals and alternate terminal [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in Typesetting, letterpress, typography
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Tagged cambridge university press, cup, garamond, Interrobang Letterpress, kerning, letterpress, Monotype, Typesetting, typography
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