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 […]
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, Type, 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, Type
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Located five miles east of Cheltenham in the shadow of an Elizabethan manor, the family-run Whittington press (established by John Randle in 1971) will be throwing open its doors on Saturday 1st September, accompanied by Presstival, an annual event for the delectation of printing and typography enthusiasts. Pat Randle, mastermind behind the event, has printed […]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in hot metal, John Randle, letterpress, Monotype, OPC, Pat Randle, printing, Private Presses, typecasting, typography, Whittington Press, wood type, woodletter
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Also tagged Heidelberg Cylinder, hot metal, John Randle, Justin Knopp, letterpress, Monotype, nomad letterpress, Pat Randle, presstival, printing, The Occasional Print Club, Typoretum, Whittington Press, wood type
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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, Type
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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, Type
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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 […]
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 […]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in craft, hot metal, John Randle, letterpress, typecasting, Whittington Press
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Also tagged Caslon, casting, Centaur, George Wiggall, hot metal, John Randle, letterpress, Monotype, Neil Winter, OUP, Oxford University Press
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Prior to 1737, little standardisation existed in the sizes of printing types and typefounders cast types to their own sizes and dimensions. In this year, the Parisian typefounder Pierre Simon Fournier introduced a new system that he derived from dividing two inches of the pre-metric French foot into one hundred and forty-four equal parts. Fournier […]
By Justin Knopp
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Posted in letterpress, typecasting, Typesetting, typography
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Also tagged Agate, Bourgeois, Brevier, Brilliant, Diamond, Didot, Emerald, English, Fournier, Long primer, Minikin, Minion, Nonpareil, Pearl, Pica, Point, Ruby, Small pica, Type, Typesetting
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Following the release last July of the typeface Stern, designed by Jim Rimmer, a great deal of willpower had to be summonsed to prevent me from placing an order for the metal version of the typeface. Unfairly placed just above an image of a shimmering newly cast fount of Stern, the ‘Order’ button on The […]
