Public Service Broadcasting commissioned Typoretum design and letterpress print a limited edition (100 copies) poster, to accompany the launch of their debut album ‘Inform, Educate, Entertain’ (publicservicebroadcasting.net/inform-educate-entertain-out-now/) in May 2013. The posters were printed from antique Elongated Sans Serif wood type and Granby Light metal type onto high-quality 170gsm cartridge paper, signed and editioned by [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in letterpress, posters, typography, Typoretum, wood type, woodletter
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Also tagged Gietz, Granby, IEE, Inform Educate Entertain, letterpress, metal, Poster, PSB, Public Service Broadcasting, Sans Serif, sans surryphs, Type, Typoretum, wood
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April 17, 2013 – 10:59 am
Here is a great short film about Typoretum. An opportunity to see our presses in action and the craft of letterpress printing. Irish graphic designer and letterpress printer Jamie Murphy recently spent several months working here at Typoretum, developing his knowledge of letterpress typesetting and printing. As a thank you for his time here, Jamie [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in craft, design, Justin Knopp, letterpress, posters, press, printing, Private Presses, Typesetting, typography, Typoretum, wharfedale, wood type, woodletter
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Also tagged Áine O'Meara, Albion, Coggeshall, Columbian, Enda O'Dowd, Film, Gietz, Heidelberg, ink, Jamie Murphy, Justin Knopp, letterpress, metal type, press, printing, Public Service Broadcasting, Robert Pratley, Typesetting, Typoretum, wharfedale, wood type, Yellow Brick Media
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December 17, 2012 – 12:43 pm
A short documentary by White House Films, filmed at the Distiller’s Press in Dublin, Ireland, featuring Jamie Murphy who is currently here at Typoretum on a 3-month Leonardo da Vinci programme placement.
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in craft, design, letterpress, posters, press, printing, printmaking, typography, Uncategorized, wood type, woodletter
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Also tagged Distiller's Press, Dublin, Ireland, Jamie Murphy, letterpress, Mary J Plunkett, White House Films, wood type
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The third in the ‘dying arts trilogy’. A quick look into the world of Justin Knopp; and what it’s like for him working in the art of traditional letterpress.
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in craft, letterpress, posters, press, printing, printmaking, Typesetting, typography, Typoretum
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Also tagged Film, letterpress, Richard Hunter, Type, Typesetting, Typoretum, wood
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From 19th-21st April Officina Tipografica Novepunti hosted the inaugural Letterpress Workers International Summit, an international letterpress workshop, followed by exhibition, in Milan. During the public workshop, European designers collaborated to produce letterpress work under the watchful eyes of visitors. The participants of the event were Thomas Gravemaker, Pete Burke, Alexander Cooper & Rose Gridneff, John [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in Education, letterpress, posters, press, printing, printmaking, Typesetting, typography, wood type, woodletter
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Also tagged Alexander Cooper, John Christopher, letterpress, Letterpress Workers International Summit, Mark Pavey, Milan, Officina Tipografica Novepunti, Pete Burke, Rose Gridneff, Thomas Gravemaker, wood type
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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, Type, typefaces, typography, wood
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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, Type, typography, Typoretum, wood
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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, Type, typography, wood
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September 6, 2011 – 5:41 pm
Brooklyn-based typographer Nick Sherman has just created what he believes to be the world’s largest printing type. Standing at 576 lines pica (8 feet) tall, I’m inclined to agree! Nick designed, produced, and printed these wooden letters for the Wood Type Evolved exhibition at Columbia College Chicago. More images showing the process employed to create [...]
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, letterpress, New North Press, press, printing, Richard Ardagh, Wilton’s Music Hall
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