August 26, 2009 – 2:03 pm
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, [...]
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 19, 2009 – 3:37 pm
Welcome to the fifteenth ‘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.
To enter, all you need to do is identify the typeface shown below and email your answer to me. Whoever correctly [...]
August 19, 2009 – 12:30 pm
Since you’re reading this and you are almost certainly interested in typography, it is highly likely that you will have already heard about Type Daily, the newly launched RSS aggregator. Type Daily is the brainchild of John Boardley, creator of I Love Typography and We Love Typography and has already become my browser home [...]
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 12, 2009 – 12:21 pm
Welcome to the fourteenth ‘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, [...]
Of my earliest ancestry neither history nor relics remain. The wedge-shaped symbols impressed in plastic clay by Babylonian builders in the dim past foreshadowed me: from them, on through the hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptians, down to the beautiful manuscript letters of the mediaeval scribes, I was in the making.
With the golden vision of the [...]
August 5, 2009 – 10:00 am
Welcome to the thirteenth ‘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, [...]
Welcome to the twelfth ‘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.
This week I am looking for the name and designer(s) of the typeface shown below. Please email your answers to me; [...]
The exquisite example of hand lettering shown above was recently presented to me by my former printmaking tutor and friend, Roy Caplin (aka ‘RC Scryven’). What makes the piece extraordinary is that Roy has reversed the lettering so that it becomes illegible to the untrained eye, unless deciphered with the aid of a mirror. I [...]
