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 [...]
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 [...]
December 9, 2009 – 4:52 pm
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, [...]
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 21, 2009 – 1:57 pm
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 [...]
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 [...]
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Tagged Graham Bignell, letterpress, New North Press, Poster, Richard Ardagh, wood type, woodletter
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September 30, 2009 – 4:02 pm
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, [...]
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 23, 2009 – 9:08 pm
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 [...]
September 2, 2009 – 11:39 am
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, [...]
