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 […]
November 10, 2011 – 6:05 pm
I recently had the great pleasure to return to Whittington again to exhibit at the Whittington Press Open Day 2011 and was delighted to watch – through the fug of fumes from the Monotype casters – brand new type being cast by Neil Winter (ex-Libanus Press). Since John Randle bought his first Monotype caster and […]
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Also posted in craft, hot metal, John Randle, typecasting, Whittington Press
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Tagged Caslon, casting, Centaur, George Wiggall, hot metal, John Randle, letterpress, Monotype, Neil Winter, OUP, Oxford University Press, typecasting
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October 27, 2011 – 6:31 pm
After being sworn to secrecy over the past few months, we can finally reveal a rather special book project that we have been working on – a limited edition of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84. We letterpress printed the covers onto Somerset Velvet Newsprint 280gsm card stock and the book edges were printed at our studio using […]
September 28, 2011 – 11:09 am
We are delighted to be exhibiting at the Rural Landscape – Art Car Boot Fair on Saturday 1 October 2011, 12-4pm at Roudham Farm, Roudham, Norfolk NR16 2RJ. We will be showing our letterpress work and our letterpress posters and greeting cards will be for sale. We hope to see you there!
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in cards, craft, greeting cards, norfolk, posters, Typoretum
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Tagged Art, Car Boot Fair, Deborah Smith, letterpress, norfolk, Roudham, Rural Landscape, Typoretum
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September 20, 2011 – 11:27 pm
The fifth meeting of the Occasional Print Club took place in late July at The Whittington Press and this time the four existing members (Jonathan Kielty, Justin Knopp, Pat Randle and Ross Shaw) were joined by Swiss graphic designer & letterpress printmaker Dafi Kühne. During the weekend meeting a 75 copy edition of a six […]
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Also posted in Jonathan Kielty, Justin Knopp, OPC, Pat Randle, printing, Ross Shaw, The Occasional Print Club, typography, Whittington Press
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Tagged Dafi Kühne, Jon Kielty, Justin Knopp, letterpress, Pat Randle, Poster, printing, Ross Shaw, The Occasional Print Club
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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 […]
September 1, 2011 – 2:03 pm
We will returning to Whittington again this year, on Saturday 3rd September, for the annual Whittington Press open day, where we will be exhibiting our letterpress work, posters and greeting cards. We are looking forward to meeting up with old friends, fellow letterpress printers, booksellers, engravers, marblers and others who will also be exhibiting their […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in greeting cards, John Randle, Justin Knopp, printmaking, Private Presses, Typesetting
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Tagged 2011, John Randle, letterpress, Open Day, Typoretum, Whittington Press
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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 […]
I couldn’t resist posting this beautifully shot and rather enchanting movie, by J. Shimon & J. Lindemann, that explores a craftsmans’ relationship with the machinery of his trade. Although this film features Bill Malley (1938-2004) and his Linotype machine, I have met a great many craftsman who, like Bill, developed a great affinity for their […]
