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 [...]
August 27, 2009 – 12:16 pm
We are delighted to be exhibiting at this year’s Whittington Summer Show, on the afternoon of Saturday 5th September. A selection of our letterpress greeting cards will be for sale in addition to some woodletter posters and examples of our bespoke work. It will be a busy day as I will be sharing my time [...]
August 11, 2009 – 2:31 pm
The second meeting of The Occasional Print Club (OPC) took place at JMG – the letterpress studio of Jonathan Kielty and Ross Shaw – last weekend and we produced a collaborative experimental letterpress poster, based upon F.W. Goudy’s famous ‘I am type’ quotation. This poster was printed, in three colours, on a Stephenson Blake proofing [...]
The Letterpress Exchange Group was formed around 1992 by Claire Bolton of The Alembic Press as a forum that was exclusively letterpress, and small enough to make the task of printing not too onerous.
Membership is strictly limited to twenty-five members and operates a policy that if one does not contribute, one does not receive the [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in Letterpress Exchange Group, letterpress, printing, typography
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Also tagged Alan Brignull, Alembic Press, Ben Brundell, Claire Bolton, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, Ericius Press, Incline Press, LEG, letterpress, Letterpress Exchange Group, Palliser Press, Reading University, The Happy Dragons' Press, The Hedgehog Press, The Old Forge Press, typography
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February 18, 2009 – 11:23 am
The Occasional Print Club was formed in November 2008, in the corner of a thronging London ale house behind Fleet Street, by myself and three other typographers; Jonathan Kielty, Pat Randle and Ross Shaw. We were full of energy and enthusiasm, having spent that day at the excellent Letterpress: A Celebration conference at the St [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in Private Presses, The Occasional Print Club, letterpress, printing
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Also tagged John Randle, Jonathan Kielty, letterpress, OPC, Pat Randle, Ross Shaw, St Bride Library, The Occasional Print Club, Western proofing press, Whittington Press
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August 25, 2008 – 11:48 pm
After fourteen years of active letterpress printing and two years of dedicated planning, Typoretum has been successfully launched.
Since launching Typoretum on the 14th August 2008, we have been busy designing and printing new letterpress card designs, some of which are now available for purchase online via our website at http://www.typoretum.co.uk
