Tag Archives: typography

‘Ampersands’ wood type print by New North Press

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 […]

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Critical Tensions – Tenth annual St Bride Library conference

August 3, 2011 – 1:29 pm

On Thursday 10th & Friday 11th November 2011, the  St Bride Library will hold its’ tenth annual conference on the theme of Tension in design. Speakers include Phil Baines, Jonathan Barnbrook, Zoë Bather, Alan Kitching, Gerry Leonidas, Lucienne Roberts, Vaughan Oliver, Paul Rennie, Jack Schulze, Steve Watson, Rebecca Wright and Derek Yates. “Tension is frequently […]

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‘What Face Wednesday’ No.8

June 10, 2009 – 9:30 am

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 […]

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‘What Face Wednesday’ No.7

June 3, 2009 – 10:00 am

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 […]

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‘What Face Wednesday’ No.6

May 27, 2009 – 10:00 am

Welcome to the sixth ‘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 […]

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‘What Face Wednesday’ No.5

May 20, 2009 – 12:00 pm

Welcome to the fifth ‘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 […]

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‘What Face Wednesday’ No.4

May 13, 2009 – 12:05 pm

Welcome to the fourth ‘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. As before, answers must be posted on this Blog (as a comment) and the first correct identification of the typeface […]

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‘What Face Wednesday’ No.3

May 6, 2009 – 10:54 am

Welcome to the third ‘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. This week I need you to correctly identify the typeface […]

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‘What Face Wednesday’ No.2

April 29, 2009 – 12:43 pm

Welcome to the second ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week I am offering the prize of a handsome letterpress poster (including free International p&p), hand-printed by The Occasional Print Club, of which I am a member. The prize can be viewed here. As before, answers must be posted on this Blog (as […]

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Educational printing workshops in the home of Gutenberg

April 27, 2009 – 7:33 pm

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 […]

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