Tag Archives: Poster

POP! Goes the Weasel

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 [...]

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‘Advice for the Road’ letterpress poster by Bradley Hotson

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 [...]

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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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