December 9, 2013 – 5:38 pm
Endless Letterpress is a documentary about present of woodtype presses in Argentina, filmed by Nicolás Rodríguez Fuchs. Sadly I discovered this film after the fundraising effort had ended but more information can be found at fb.com/losultimosdoc “Buenos Aires deepest suburbs, July 2013. Three old print shops disputes the printing of cumbia and boxing posters. Second […]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in craft, hot metal, letterpress, posters, press, printing, Typesetting, typography, wood type, woodletter
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Also tagged Argentina, Buenos Aires, letterpress, Los Ultimos, Nicolás Rodríguez Fuchs, printing, wood, woodletter
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November 9, 2013 – 3:16 pm
Of my earliest ancestry neither history nor relics remain. The wedge-shaped symbols impressed in plastic clay by Babylonian builders in the dim past foreshadowed me: from them, on through the hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptians, down to the beautiful manuscript letters of the mediaeval scribes, I was in the making. With the golden vision of […]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in craft, hot metal, letterpress, Typesetting
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Also tagged 1928, compositors, F.W. Goudy, Goudy, hot metal, letterpress, london, Lord Mayor’s Parade, Lord Mayor’s Show
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November 2, 2013 – 3:13 pm
The Atelier Press came into being in 1970 as the private press of Stan Nelson. Stan has been interested in printing since the age of nine, and formerly operated as the Nelson Job Shop and later as Norse Custom Printing. After becoming aware of the world of Fine Printing, Stan chose to name his press […]
September 14, 2013 – 6:26 pm
Here at Typoretum, we have embarked on an ambitious project to create a limited edition portfolio of experimental designs printed directly from wooden types. The book will be letterpress printed on Victorian printing machines and will feature over 200 individual wood type faces from the private collection of Justin Knopp, founder of Typoretum. The estimated […]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in books, craft, design, designs, Justin Knopp, letterpress, printing, Typesetting, typography, Typoretum, wood type, woodletter
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Also tagged book, design, experimental, limited edition, typography, Typoretum, wood type, woodletter
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Public Service Broadcasting commissioned Typoretum to 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 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, Typoretum, wood, woodletter
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The British punch-cutter and typefounder Vincent Figgins (1766-1844) ran a notable London typefoundry and is credited with designing the first Egyptian (slab serif) typeface, which he simply named ‘Antique’ and released in 1815. Figgins was originally apprenticed to the typefounder Joseph Jackson, a student of William Caslon I, and established his own typefoundry in Swan […]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in design, letterpress, typecasting, typography
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Also tagged Berthold Wolpe, Egyptian, letters, Printing Historical Society, Sans Serif, specimens, St Bride Institute, typecasting, typography, Vincent Figgins
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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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Posted in craft, design, hot metal, letterpress, matrices, Monotype, printing, typecasting, Typesetting, typography
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Also tagged Composition Caster, exhibition, Gill Sans, hot metal, letterpress, matrices, Matrix, Monotype, Pencil to Pixel, Supercaster, Times New Roman, Tolbert Lanston, typecasting
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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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Posted in craft, letterpress, posters, press, printing, printmaking, Typesetting, typography, Typoretum
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Also tagged Film, letterpress, Richard Hunter, 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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Posted in craft, letterpress, printing, typecasting, Typesetting
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Also tagged casting, Chang Chieh-kuan, Chinese, letterpress, movable type, Taiwan, 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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Posted in craft, hot metal, letterpress, Monotype, typecasting
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Also tagged Arion Press, casting, Gloucester Typesetters, Hand & Eye Letterpress, letterpress, Letterpress Works, Lewis Mitchell, Monotype, San Francisco, Speedspools, The Carpathian Press, typecasting
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