January 30, 2012 – 10:14 pm
A short film by Danny Cooke about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier. plymouth.ac.uk
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in Education, Hand Presses, letterpress, press, printing, Printing Presses, Typesetting, typography, wood type, woodletter
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Also tagged Danny Cooke, hot metal, letterpress, Paul Collier, Plymouth University, press, printing, typefaces, typography, wood, woodletter
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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 [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in craft, Hand Presses, Justin Knopp, letterpress, posters, printing, typography, Typoretum, wood type, woodletter
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Also tagged Justin Knopp, letterpress, Poster, Random Spectacular, Robert Pratley, Spitalfields Life, St Jude’s, The Gentle Author, typography, Typoretum, wood, woodletter
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November 28, 2011 – 10:10 pm
Our friends over at New North Press, Richard Ardagh and Graham Bignell, have created a new letterpress print from a range of wood type ampersands. The damped paper was blind embossed revealing the shapes of the type blocks themselves, then it was flipped and printed with a clear varnish showing the mirror image of their [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in letterpress, posters, printing, typography, Uncategorized, wood type, woodletter
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Also tagged Albion, ampersands, letterpress, New North Press, press, Richard Ardagh, typography, wood, woodletter
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Welcome to the eighth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my Typoretum website. All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one winner will be randomly drawn. To enter the prize [...]
Welcome to the seventh ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week I am offering the prize of a pastiche Victorian letterpress poster (including free International p&p), hand-typeset and printed by myself on a mid-nineteenth century Columbian handpress. The prize can be viewed here. All correct answers will be placed in a hat and [...]
Welcome to the sixth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my Typoretum website. All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one winner will be randomly drawn. To enter the prize [...]
Welcome to the fifth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my Typoretum website. All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one winner will be randomly drawn. To enter the prize [...]
Welcome to the fourth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my Typoretum website. As before, answers must be posted on this Blog (as a comment) and the first correct identification of the typeface [...]
Prior to 1737, little standardisation existed in the sizes of printing types and typefounders cast types to their own sizes and dimensions. In this year, the Parisian typefounder Pierre Simon Fournier introduced a new system that he derived from dividing two inches of the pre-metric French foot into one hundred and forty-four equal parts. Fournier [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in letterpress, typecasting, Typesetting, typography
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Also tagged Agate, Bourgeois, Brevier, Brilliant, Diamond, Didot, Emerald, English, Fournier, Long primer, Minikin, Minion, Nonpareil, Pearl, Pica, Point, Ruby, Small pica, typecasting, Typesetting
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Welcome to the third ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week I am offering the prize of a pastiche Victorian letterpress poster (including free International p&p), hand-typeset and printed by myself on a mid-nineteenth century Columbian handpress. The prize can be viewed here. This week I need you to correctly identify the typeface [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in letterpress, typography, What Face Wednesday
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Also tagged Festival, Festival Titling, Identification, Mark McKellier, Monotype, Phillip Boydell, Simon Lewin, typefaces, typography, What Face Wednesday
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