Category Archives: typography

‘What Face Wednesday’ No.20

Welcome to the twentieth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress Christmas cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my  Typoretum website.
All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one winner will be randomly drawn. To enter the prize draw, [...]

‘Hot and off the press’ Financial Times letterpress article

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 [...]

‘What Face Wednesday’ No.19

Welcome to the nineteenth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week I have decided not to add a proof of the typeface as it is a relatively easy offering but I am looking for the name of the typeface and its’ designer.
The prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards [...]

POP! Goes the Weasel

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 [...]

‘What Face Wednesday’ No.18

Welcome to the eighteenth ‘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.
All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one winner will be randomly drawn. To enter the prize draw, [...]

Greengaged 2009 ‘Crafting Mass Production’ letterpress workshop

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 [...]

The Movie Title Stills Collection

Thanks to @simongoode on Twitter, I discovered The Movie Title Stills Collection and I feel sure that this archive will be of great interest to any student of typography. Assembled and curated by the Dutch designer Christian Annyas, the collection features an astonishing collection of movie titles from 1920 to the present day.

By way of [...]

‘What Face Wednesday’ No.17

Welcome to the seventeenth ‘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.
All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one winner will be randomly drawn. To enter the prize draw, [...]

‘What Face Wednesday’ No.16

Welcome to the sixteenth ‘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.
All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one winner will be randomly drawn. To enter the prize draw, [...]

A commission for ilovetypography.com

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 [...]