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Typoretum featured on Spitalfield’s Life

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 [...]

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The Occasional Print Club – 5th meeting

September 20, 2011 – 11:27 pm

The fifth meeting of the Occasional Print Club took place in late July at The Whittington Press and this time the four existing members (Jonathan Kielty, Justin Knopp, Pat Randle and Ross Shaw) were joined by Swiss graphic designer & letterpress printmaker Dafi Kühne. During the weekend meeting a 75 copy edition of a six [...]

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Grafica Fildalga – Letterpress printers in São Paulo, Brazil

May 4, 2009 – 8:55 pm

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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