Category Archives: Private Presses

The 40th Whittington Summer Show

August 27, 2009 – 12:16 pm

We are delighted to be exhibiting at this year’s Whittington Summer Show, on the afternoon of Saturday 5th September. A selection of our letterpress greeting cards will be for sale in addition to some woodletter posters and examples of our bespoke work. It will be a busy day as I will be sharing my time [...]

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…But I love Typography!

March 3, 2009 – 12:29 pm

This letterpress printed postcard was sent to me, some years ago, by Masao Takaoka; proprietor of  The Kazui Press in Tokyo. It is one of my favourite pieces of letterpress ephemera, that I have in my collection. I received it along with an enormous bundle of beautifully printed samples from  The Kazui Press and a [...]

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The Occasional Print Club

February 18, 2009 – 11:23 am

The Occasional Print Club was formed in November 2008, in the corner of a thronging London ale house behind Fleet Street, by myself and three other typographers;  Jonathan Kielty,  Pat Randle and  Ross Shaw. We were full of energy and enthusiasm, having spent that day at the excellent  Letterpress: A Celebration conference at the  St [...]

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Out of sorts?

December 2, 2008 – 4:05 pm

Apologies for the recent hiatus of posting to this blog but most of my energy has been expended out in the workshop, of late. Our range of letterpress Christmas cards are proving to be very popular and a reprint of some designs is underway. We are also engaged in some bespoke letterpress projects and the  [...]

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