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 [...]
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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Tagged Graham Bignell, letterpress, New North Press, Poster, Richard Ardagh, wood type, woodletter
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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 [...]
I’ve just had the pleasant surprise of discovering Woodtyper, an online journal by Nick Sherman that focusses on a subject close to my heart – wooden type! Nick states that he has been inspired to begin this online journal by the late Rob Roy Kelly and continues:
“I never had the pleasure of meeting Mr Kelly [...]
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.
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Tagged Add new tag, Brazil, Grafica Fildalga, letterpress, Poster, printing, São Paulo, wood type
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Since the foundation of the Druckladen des Gutenberg Museums (Printing Workshop of the Gutenberg Museum) in 1990, the city of Mainz has hosted educational letterpress and printmaking workshops for visitors and children of school age and upwards.
I visited the Druckladen some ten years ago and found its’ workshop occupying two floors and very well equipped [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Tagged BuchKinder-Werkstatt, Dr Otto Martin, Druckladen, Education, Gutenberg Museum, letterpress, Mainz, typography, Workshop
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