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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Also posted in letterpress, posters, typography, Uncategorized, wood type, woodletter
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Tagged Albion, ampersands, letterpress, New North Press, press, Richard Ardagh, Type, typography, wood, woodletter
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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 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 […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in Jonathan Kielty, Justin Knopp, letterpress, OPC, Pat Randle, 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 […]
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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Also posted in Hand Presses, letterpress, pressmanship
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Tagged Albion, Elephants Graveyard, Graham Bignell, letterpress, New North Press, press, printing, Richard Ardagh, Wilton’s Music Hall, woodletter
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Widely shared on Twitter, this movie is just too wonderful not to feature on my Blog. Filmed by Cool Hunting Video, it shows Grafica Fidalga, a trio of letterpress printers in São Paulo, Brazil, who print wood type posters on a 1929 German cylinder printing press.
By Justin Knopp
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Tagged Add new tag, Brazil, Grafica Fildalga, letterpress, Poster, printing, São Paulo, wood type
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Since the foundation of the Druckladen des Gutenberg Museums (Printing Workshop of the Gutenberg Museum) in 1990, the city of Mainz has hosted educational letterpress and printmaking workshops for visitors and children of school age and upwards. I visited the Druckladen some ten years ago and found its’ workshop occupying two floors and very well […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in Education, letterpress, printmaking, typography, wood type
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Tagged BuchKinder-Werkstatt, Dr Otto Martin, Druckladen, Education, Gutenberg Museum, letterpress, Mainz, typography, Workshop
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The Letterpress Exchange Group was formed around 1992 by Claire Bolton of The Alembic Press as a forum that was exclusively letterpress, and small enough to make the task of printing not too onerous. Membership is strictly limited to twenty-five members and operates a policy that if one does not contribute, one does not receive […]
By Justin Knopp
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Tagged Alan Brignull, Alembic Press, Ben Brundell, Claire Bolton, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, Ericius Press, Incline Press, Justin Knopp, LEG, letterpress, Letterpress Exchange Group, Palliser Press, Reading University, The Happy Dragons' Press, The Hedgehog Press, The Old Forge Press, typography
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I was delighted this morning to happen upon a wonderfully creative piece of letterpress work, by Ross Shaw and Jon Kielty of JMG, on the cover of the current edition of Le Cool. Ross, Jon and myself collaborate under the guise of The Occasional Print Club, along with Pat Randle, producing experimental letterpress work in […]
February 25, 2009 – 10:46 pm
I have been extremely fortunate to receive a day’s tuition from Phil Abel at Hand & Eye Letterpress, in the fine art of ‘make-ready’ and ‘overlaying’ on the letterpress cylinder press. After mentioning to Phil that I hope to achieve high-quality work on my Wharfedale press, once it is restored to working order, he kindly […]
