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 [...]
November 23, 2009 – 4:20 pm
Saturday’s issue of the Financial Times (21st November 2009) featured an article exploring the renaissance of letterpress printing for greeting cards and social stationery. Nestled amongst advertisements for exquisite jewellery could be found a photograph showing a display of dusty old typecases and selection of letterpress printed greeting cards, that included one of my own [...]
October 2, 2009 – 2:56 pm
Richard Ardagh and Graham Bignell of New North Press have just completed a new hand-printed letterpress poster and have added it to the redesigned New North Press website and online shop.
“Established in 1986, New North Press is an artisan letterpress print studio based in London. We have a [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in letterpress, printmaking, typography, wood type, woodletter
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Tagged Graham Bignell, letterpress, New North Press, Poster, Richard Ardagh, wood type, woodletter
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September 25, 2009 – 12:02 pm
On 24th September, six designers participated in a letterpress workshop for Greengaged 2009, contributing to the discussion of ‘Crafting Mass Production’. The workshop was delivered by Workshop – a London based design co-operative specialising in letterpress and print and founded by James Allen, Alexander Cooper, Rose Gridneff and Elliot Hammer.
Photographs of day four of Greengaged [...]
September 1, 2009 – 11:19 pm
The 51st bundle of the Letterpress Exchange Group (LEG) arrived recently and, as always, the package contained a wonderfully eclectic collection of beautifully executed letterpress work. With great difficulty, I have selected my favourite pieces from the August bundle and have posted them here, for your enjoyment.
Mike Edwards contributed a booklet that features a collection [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in Letterpress Exchange Group, letterpress, printmaking
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Tagged Alan Brignull, Andrew Dolinski, Ericius Press, Graham Moss, Helen Ingham, Incline Press, John Cornelisse, LEG, letterpress, Letterpress Exchange Group, Mike Edwards, Peter Criddle, printing, Richard Lawrence, Simon Smallwood, The Hedgehog Press
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August 23, 2009 – 9:58 pm
Recently I was commissioned by John Boardley of ilovetypography.com fame to letterpress print a typographical design that he set in the recently released digital typeface Restraint. I was delighted to have been asked and had a 16 gauge magnesium relief plate etched from John’s artwork for printing on my 1963 Swiss-made Gietz Art Platen printing [...]
August 17, 2009 – 12:03 pm
Using a quote from the film An American Werewolf in London as inspiration, Bradley visited the Typoretum recently and set about typesetting and printing a handful of woodletter posters. The Gill Sans Condensed woodletter was printed in dense black ink on my hand-operated 1960s Farley 24a proofing press. The moon image was achieved by taking [...]
August 11, 2009 – 2:31 pm
The second meeting of The Occasional Print Club (OPC) took place at JMG – the letterpress studio of Jonathan Kielty and Ross Shaw – last weekend and we produced a collaborative experimental letterpress poster, based upon F.W. Goudy’s famous ‘I am type’ quotation. This poster was printed, in three colours, on a Stephenson Blake proofing [...]
Richard Ardagh of Elephants Graveyard directed me to this delightful short movie showing him printing – ably assisted by Graham Bignell of New North Press – some letterpress posters, on an Albion Press. This poster, to commemorate the 150th Aniversary of Wilton’s Music Hall, is available for purchase along with other letterpress printed items via [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in Hand Presses, letterpress, pressmanship
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Tagged Albion, Elephants Graveyard, Graham Bignell, letterpress, New North Press, press, printing, Richard Ardagh, Wilton’s Music Hall, woodletter
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Widely shared on Twitter, this movie is just too wonderful not to feature on my Blog. Filmed by Cool Hunting Video, it shows Grafica Fidalga, a trio of letterpress printers in São Paulo, Brazil, who print wood type posters on a 1929 German cylinder printing press.
By Justin Knopp
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Tagged Add new tag, Brazil, Grafica Fildalga, letterpress, Poster, printing, São Paulo, wood type
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