Author Archives: Justin Knopp

Hot-Metal at the Crescent Card Company

October 28, 2008 – 9:28 pm

Just over a week ago I attended a Hot-Metal open day at the Crescent Card Company (Tiptree), where Len Friend and Dave Boden provided a hands-on Ludlow typecasting workshop. I came away having learnt a great deal about the process and proudly clutching the prize of a freshly cast ‘slug’ of type. I also managed […]

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A ‘hot printing’ homage to H.N. Werkman

October 24, 2008 – 1:03 pm

Whilst continuing to work on the Wharfedale, and covered in a great deal of grease, I recalled a print that I made to commemorate my acquisition of this fine press in May 2004. It was created using the technique of ‘hot printing’ developed by the Dutch artist, typographer, printer and hero of mine; H.N. Werkman. […]

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1888 Wharfedale Press – Project Update

October 13, 2008 – 7:30 pm

During the past weekend, tentative attempts were made to bring the largest printing press in our collection back into production for book and poster work. Our Wharfedale cylinder press was manufactured in 1888 by W. Dawson & Sons in Otley, West Yorkshire, and whilst it is one of the smaller machines of its type, it […]

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New range of floral ornament cards available.

September 20, 2008 – 9:39 pm

We are pleased to introduce a new range of floral design letterpress greeting cards, in four colour options. These cards are now available for viewing, and purchase, via our website. Please click here for more details.

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UPPERCASE Journal: Type Tuesday feature

September 10, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Hot on the heels of the I Love Typography feature on Typoretum, we were pleased that Janine Vangool liked our letterpress work enough to provide us with a feature on her UPPERCASE Journal. The original content can be viewed here.

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I Love Typography feature

September 9, 2008 – 8:00 pm

We’re delighted to have got a mention on John Boardley’s excellent I Love Typography website and hope to contribute an article to this site, on the subject of the renaissance of letterpress in the UK, in the near future. The original piece can be read here (scroll down the page a bit).

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Grab one of our limited-edition flyers!

September 9, 2008 – 9:02 am

To commemorate the launch of Typoretum, we have hand-set and letterpress printed an edition of 350 flyers. Most of these have been sent to friends, sympathisers and fellow typographers & letterpress printmakers but we have a handful left. If you would like to receive one of these flyers, all you need to do is identify […]

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T Y P O R E T U M featured on papercrave.com

September 9, 2008 – 8:07 am

We’ve just had a lovely feature on the US-based website papercrave.com. Click here to find out what they had to say about our letterpress greeting cards. Paper Crave is run by a self-confessed “paper and paper accessories obsessed freelance graphic designer and web developer” in Massachusetts and features articles on paper-related design and crafts.

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Say it with a Woodletter greeting card!

September 3, 2008 – 2:28 pm

We are pleased to announce that a new range of five woodletter cards are now available for viewing, and purchase, via our website. Please click here for more details. These designs involved printing the ‘feet’ (base) of the antique wooden type, as a textural background, before turning the letters over and printing the face of […]

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typoretum.co.uk goes live!

August 25, 2008 – 11:48 pm

After fourteen years of active letterpress printing and two years of dedicated planning, Typoretum has been successfully launched. Since launching Typoretum on the 14th August 2008, we have been busy designing and printing new letterpress card designs, some of which are now available for purchase online via our website at http://www.typoretum.co.uk

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