A Blog about Typography, Letterpress and Printing History | News from Typoretum » matrices http://blog.typoretum.co.uk About Typography, Letterpress and Printing History. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:14:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 ‘Ink & Paper’ documentary by Ben Proudfoot http://blog.typoretum.co.uk/2012/01/13/%e2%80%98ink-paper%e2%80%99-documentary-by-ben-proudfoot/ http://blog.typoretum.co.uk/2012/01/13/%e2%80%98ink-paper%e2%80%99-documentary-by-ben-proudfoot/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:21:46 +0000 Justin Knopp http://blog.typoretum.co.uk/?p=558 A short documentary about the  Aardvark Press, one of the last letterpress printers in Los Angeles and  McManus & Morgan Paper, Los Angeles’ oldest artist paper distributor.

]]> http://blog.typoretum.co.uk/2012/01/13/%e2%80%98ink-paper%e2%80%99-documentary-by-ben-proudfoot/feed/ 0 The Ludlow Project – Saving Hot Metal Typecasting History http://blog.typoretum.co.uk/2011/11/16/the-ludlow-project-saving-hot-metal-typecasting-history/ http://blog.typoretum.co.uk/2011/11/16/the-ludlow-project-saving-hot-metal-typecasting-history/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:07:37 +0000 Justin Knopp http://blog.typoretum.co.uk/?p=515 We’ve received an appeal from our friends at the  International Printing Museum to help spread the word about  The Ludlow Project, an effort to augment their collection of Ludlow matrices to be as complete as possible.

They have brought the campaign to Kickstarter, where there have been a significant number of successful letterpress-themed projects. You can view their video appeal, that supports their very worthy campaign, below.

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