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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Also posted in design, letterpress, posters, press, printing, printmaking, typography, Uncategorized, wood type, woodletter
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Tagged Distiller's Press, Dublin, Ireland, Jamie Murphy, letterpress, Mary J Plunkett, White House Films, wood type, woodletter
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November 15, 2012 – 1:57 pm
The history of Monotype dates back to the late 19th Century, when it introduced groundbreaking new technology that revolutionised the production of metal type for letterpress printing. Tolbert Lanston, the inventor of this technology and founder of The Lanston Monotype Machine Company, patented this mechanical typesetting system in 1887 and introduced the first hot metal […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in design, hot metal, letterpress, matrices, Monotype, printing, typecasting, Typesetting, typography
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Tagged Composition Caster, exhibition, Gill Sans, hot metal, letterpress, matrices, Matrix, Monotype, Pencil to Pixel, Supercaster, Times New Roman, Tolbert Lanston, Type, typecasting
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October 19, 2012 – 11:27 pm
The London Centre for Book Arts is an open-access book arts studio, teaching facility and exhibition space in Fish Island, Hackney Wick, in East London. The first and only centre of its kind in the United Kingdom, LCBA provides access to specialist equipment and resources, including rare and historically important pieces, along with technical and […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in Education, letterpress, printing, printmaking, Typesetting, typography
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Tagged bookbinding, LCBA, letterpress, london, london centre for book arts, printing, printmaking, Simon Goode
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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. http://vimeo.com/42332067
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in letterpress, posters, press, printing, printmaking, Typesetting, typography, Typoretum
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Tagged Film, letterpress, Richard Hunter, Type, Typesetting, Typoretum, wood, woodletter
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This article has been extracted from an article on the BBC News Asia website, written by Cindy Sui and dated 1st May 2012. The movable-type printing system invented around 1040 AD helped to revolutionise the world by making books and other written material easily available. It is one of the most important inventions of mankind, […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in letterpress, printing, typecasting, Typesetting
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Tagged casting, Chang Chieh-kuan, Chinese, letterpress, movable type, Taiwan, Type, typecasting
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April 19, 2012 – 11:23 am
A delightful short movie by the San Francisco Chronicle showing Lewis Mitchell at work, casting type on Monotype machines in the basement at the Arion Press in San Francisco. “I thoroughly enjoy the sound of the machines turning, and seeing the type come out is a joy,” Mitchell said. He can tell by the sound […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in hot metal, letterpress, Monotype, typecasting
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Tagged Arion Press, casting, Gloucester Typesetters, Hand & Eye Letterpress, letterpress, Letterpress Works, Lewis Mitchell, Monotype, San Francisco, Speedspools, The Carpathian Press, Type, typecasting
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April 11, 2012 – 10:18 pm
Extracted from a promotional booklet published by The Bauer Type Foundry, Inc. 235-247 East Forty-Fifth Street, New York. Publication date unknown. THE PRINTER has many opportunities of learning how a type is cut and cast, and it is important that he should have this knowledge. How the stage of cutting is reached, the work that […]
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Also posted in design, letterpress, typecasting, typography
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Tagged Bauer, E. R. Weiss, Letterforms, letterpress, Louis Hoell, matrices, Punchcutting, Type, Type Design, Type Foundry, Typeface, typography, Weiss, Weiss Bold, Weiss Initials, Weiss Italic, Weiss Roman
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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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Also posted in Hand Presses, Justin Knopp, letterpress, posters, printing, typography, Typoretum, wood type, woodletter
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Tagged Justin Knopp, letterpress, Poster, Random Spectacular, Robert Pratley, Spitalfields Life, St Jude’s, The Gentle Author, Type, typography, Typoretum, wood, woodletter
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November 16, 2011 – 1:07 pm
We’ve received an appeal from our friends at the International Printing Museum to help spread the word about The Ludlow Project, an effort to augment their collection of Ludlow matrices to be as complete as possible. They have brought the campaign to Kickstarter, where there have been a significant number of successful letterpress-themed projects. You […]