Monthly Archives: July 2010

Little Book of Letterpress

July 15, 2010 – 3:22 pm

Chronicle Books will shortly be publishing the  Little Book of Letterpress, edited by Charlotte Rivers and with a foreword by Yee-Haw Industries.
“Thanks to traditional letterpress technique’s popularity in DIY and indie-crafter circles, it’s become the darling of the stationery world with innovative new studios popping up all over the globe, from Texas to Denmark. Little [...]

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The end of movable type in China

July 2, 2010 – 3:12 pm

Thanks to a number of creative individuals that I follow on  Twitter, I discovered a fascinating article about the sad demise of letterpress in China. Given my deep interest in letterpress printing, I have often wondered how the method of printing from movable type is possible at all in China, since at least 4,000 Chinese [...]

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