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 [...]
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 http://www.typoretum.co.uk/christmas_letterpress_cards.html and a brief rationale for each design [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in greeting cards, letterpress, typography, woodletter
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Also tagged christmas, festive, letterpress, noel, Ornaments, seasonal, typography, woodletter
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October 31, 2008 – 9:00 am
We are pleased to announce that our letterpress greeting cards are now stocked at St Jude’s Gallery in Itteringham, Norfolk.
St Jude’s specialises in British art, craft, design and printmaking – together with paintings, modern and vintage furniture, ceramics and glass, books and cards, and some jewellery.
Based in the North Norfolk village of Itteringham, their gallery [...]
October 29, 2008 – 8:06 pm
Well, the festive season is drawing nearer and today saw the first snowfalls of the coming winter. The Typoretum has been a hive of activity over recent weeks in order to create a pleasing selection of festive greeting card designs.
All of these cards will be available for viewing and purchase via our website at www.typoretum.co.uk [...]
September 20, 2008 – 9:39 pm
We are pleased to introduce a new range of floral design letterpress greeting cards, in four colour options. These cards are now available for viewing, and purchase, via our website. Please click here for more details.
September 10, 2008 – 12:00 pm
Hot on the heels of the I Love Typography feature on Typoretum, we were pleased that Janine Vangool liked our letterpress work enough to provide us with a feature on her UPPERCASE Journal. The original content can be viewed here.
September 9, 2008 – 8:00 pm
We’re delighted to have got a mention on John Boardley’s excellent I Love Typography website and hope to contribute an article to this site, on the subject of the renaissance of letterpress in the UK, in the near future. The original piece can be read here (scroll down the page a bit).
September 9, 2008 – 9:02 am
To commemorate the launch of Typoretum, we have hand-set and letterpress printed an edition of 350 flyers. Most of these have been sent to friends, sympathisers and fellow typographers & letterpress printmakers but we have a handful left.
If you would like to receive one of these flyers, all you need to do is [...]
September 9, 2008 – 8:07 am
We’ve just had a lovely feature on the US-based website papercrave.com. Click here to find out what they had to say about our letterpress greeting cards.
Paper Crave is run by a self-confessed “paper and paper accessories obsessed freelance graphic designer and web developer” in Massachusetts and features articles on paper-related design and crafts.
September 3, 2008 – 2:28 pm
We are pleased to announce that a new range of five woodletter cards are now available for viewing, and purchase, via our website. Please click here for more details.
These designs involved printing the ‘feet’ (base) of the antique wooden type, as a textural background, before turning the letters over and printing the face of the [...]
