January 30, 2012 – 10:14 pm
A short film by Danny Cooke about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier. plymouth.ac.uk
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in Education, Hand Presses, letterpress, press, printing, Printing Presses, Typesetting, typography, wood type
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Tagged Danny Cooke, hot metal, letterpress, Paul Collier, Plymouth University, press, printing, Type, typefaces, typography, wood, woodletter
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December 14, 2011 – 5:47 pm
We were recently commissioned by St Jude’s to illustrate an interview with the The Gentle Author of Spitalfields Life in the first issue of Random Spectacular, published this week in aid of Maggie’s Centres. As a result of the commission, The Gentle Author visited our letterpress workshop and interviewed me for the Spitalfields Life journal [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in craft, Hand Presses, Justin Knopp, letterpress, posters, printing, typography, Typoretum, wood type
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Tagged Justin Knopp, letterpress, Poster, Random Spectacular, Robert Pratley, Spitalfields Life, St Jude’s, The Gentle Author, Type, typography, Typoretum, wood, woodletter
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November 28, 2011 – 10:10 pm
Our friends over at New North Press, Richard Ardagh and Graham Bignell, have created a new letterpress print from a range of wood type ampersands. The damped paper was blind embossed revealing the shapes of the type blocks themselves, then it was flipped and printed with a clear varnish showing the mirror image of their [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in letterpress, posters, printing, typography, Uncategorized, wood type
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Tagged Albion, ampersands, letterpress, New North Press, press, Richard Ardagh, Type, typography, wood, woodletter
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September 6, 2011 – 5:41 pm
Brooklyn-based typographer Nick Sherman has just created what he believes to be the world’s largest printing type. Standing at 576 lines pica (8 feet) tall, I’m inclined to agree! Nick designed, produced, and printed these wooden letters for the Wood Type Evolved exhibition at Columbia College Chicago. More images showing the process employed to create [...]
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.
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in letterpress, printing, typography, wood type
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Tagged Add new tag, Brazil, Grafica Fildalga, letterpress, Poster, printing, São Paulo, wood type
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I am in the midst of taking proofs of my entire collection of woodletter and it has become a monumental undertaking! In the meantime I have designed and printed a poster that, although not exhaustive, shows the primary type styles held within my collection. The range of type styles is matched by the wide range [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in letterpress, typography
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Tagged Antique Old Style Bold, Bold Latin, Decorated French Antique, Decorated Sans Surryphs, Elongated Sans Surryphs, Expanded Antique, Expanded Grotesque, French Antique, Gill Sans, Grotesque, Latin Elongated, letterpress, Old Style Grotesque, Ornamented Wide Latin, Pointed Antique, typefaces, wooden type, woodletter
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I was delighted this morning to happen upon a wonderfully creative piece of letterpress work, by Ross Shaw and Jon Kielty of JMG, on the cover of the current edition of Le Cool. Ross, Jon and myself collaborate under the guise of The Occasional Print Club, along with Pat Randle, producing experimental letterpress work in [...]
November 4, 2008 – 5:02 pm
The gas lamps in the Typoretum have been burning late into the night, over recent weeks, but we are now delighted to introduce the fruits of our labour: a suitably festive selection of letterpress cards. All of these cards are now available for purchase via our website at www.typoretum.co.uk/christmas.html and a brief rationale for each [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in greeting cards, letterpress, typography
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Tagged christmas, festive, greeting cards, letterpress, noel, Ornaments, seasonal, typography, woodletter
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October 24, 2008 – 1:03 pm
Whilst continuing to work on the Wharfedale, and covered in a great deal of grease, I recalled a print that I made to commemorate my acquisition of this fine press in May 2004. It was created using the technique of ‘hot printing’ developed by the Dutch artist, typographer, printer and hero of mine; H.N. Werkman. [...]
