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 [...]
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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Posted in letterpress, printing, printmaking, typography, wood type, woodletter
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Also tagged Graham Bignell, New North Press, Poster, Richard Ardagh, wood type, woodletter
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September 25, 2009 – 12:02 pm
On 24th September, six designers participated in a letterpress workshop for Greengaged 2009, contributing to the discussion of ‘Crafting Mass Production’. The workshop was delivered by Workshop – a London based design co-operative specialising in letterpress and print and founded by James Allen, Alexander Cooper, Rose Gridneff and Elliot Hammer.
Photographs of day four of Greengaged [...]
September 1, 2009 – 11:19 pm
The 51st bundle of the Letterpress Exchange Group (LEG) arrived recently and, as always, the package contained a wonderfully eclectic collection of beautifully executed letterpress work. With great difficulty, I have selected my favourite pieces from the August bundle and have posted them here, for your enjoyment.
Mike Edwards contributed a booklet that features a collection [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in Letterpress Exchange Group, letterpress, printing, printmaking
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Also tagged Alan Brignull, Andrew Dolinski, Ericius Press, Graham Moss, Helen Ingham, Incline Press, John Cornelisse, LEG, Letterpress Exchange Group, Mike Edwards, Peter Criddle, printing, Richard Lawrence, Simon Smallwood, The Hedgehog Press
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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 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 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 [...]
Apologies for the absence of new posts on my blog recently but I have had my shirt sleeves permanently rolled up whilst out in my letterpress workshop (the ‘Typoretum’), working on many and varied bespoke printing projects.
One of these recent projects involved typesetting a wedding invitation in Garamond Italic with swash capitals and alternate terminal [...]
Richard Ardagh of Elephants Graveyard directed me to this delightful short movie showing him printing – ably assisted by Graham Bignell of New North Press – some letterpress posters, on an Albion Press. This poster, to commemorate the 150th Aniversary of Wilton’s Music Hall, is available for purchase along with other letterpress printed items via [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in Hand Presses, letterpress, pressmanship, printing
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Also tagged Albion, Elephants Graveyard, Graham Bignell, New North Press, press, printing, Richard Ardagh, Wilton’s Music Hall, woodletter
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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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Posted in letterpress, printing, typography, wood type, woodletter
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Also tagged Add new tag, Brazil, Grafica Fildalga, Poster, printing, São Paulo, wood type
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