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Limited edition Leper Colony play letterpress card

Our letterpress card for Vaughan Pilikian’s upcoming play, ‘Leper Colony‘. The edition was limited to 400 pieces and printed in two impressions onto 425gsm Saunders Waterford high-w...

23 may 12

The Typoretum – A short film by Richard Hunter

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.

18 may 12

Letterpress Workers International Summit – Milan 2012

From 19th-21st April Officina Tipografica Novepunti hosted the inaugural Letterpress Workers International Summit, an international letterpress workshop, followed by exhibition, in Milan. During the ...

10 may 12

Preserving traditional Chinese printing – Mr Chang

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 revolutio...

02 may 12

Lewis Mitchell – Typecaster for life

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 ...

19 apr 12

From Sketch to Type – The Evolution of a Bauer Type Face

Extracted from a promotional booklet published by The Bauer Type Foundry, Inc. 235-247 East Forty-Fifth Street, New York. Publication date unknown. THE PRINTER has many opportunities of learning how ...

11 apr 12

Silent Poster Sale – 2nd May 2012

This event is a collaboration between St Bride Foundation and BA Graphic Design students from Central Saint Martins to fundraise both for the Library and for the 2012 Graphic Design Degree Show. Wed...

30 mar 12

Upside Down, Left To Right: A letterpress film

A short film by Danny Cooke about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier. plymouth.ac.uk

30 jan 12

‘Ink & Paper’ documentary by Ben Proudfoot

A short documentary about the Aardvark Press, one of the last letterpress printers in Los Angeles and McManus & Morgan Paper, Los Angeles’ oldest artist paper distributor.

13 jan 12

Typoretum featured on Spitalfield’s Life

We were recently commissioned by St Jude’s to illustrate an interview with the The Gentle Author of Spitalfields Life in the first issue of Random Spectacular, published this week in aid of Maggi...

14 dec 11

‘Ampersands’ wood type print by New North Press

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 s...

28 nov 11

The Ludlow Project – Saving Hot Metal Typecasting History

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 co...

16 nov 11

Typecasting at The Whittington Press

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 – ...

10 nov 11

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami – Limited Edition

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 p...

27 oct 11

Rural Landscape – Art Car Boot Fair

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 an...

28 sep 11

The Occasional Print Club – 5th meeting

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) ...

20 sep 11

World’s Largest Printing Type?

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, pro...

06 sep 11

Whittington Press Open Day 2011

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. P...

01 sep 11

Critical Tensions – Tenth annual St Bride Library conference

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...

03 aug 11

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02 jul 11

Reverting To Type – Exhibition of contemporary letterpress

Reverting to Type runs at the Standpoint Gallery in London (N1) from 10th–24th Dec 2010 & 4th–22nd Jan 2011 and is an exhibition of contemporary letterpress practitioners, showcasing how a centu...

29 nov 10

Letterpress: Forward Thinking – One-day letterpress conference

I am delighted – albeit with some trepidation – to announce that I will be speaking at the Letterpress: Forward Thinking conference at the St Bride Printing Library this coming Friday (19th November)...

16 nov 10

The 41st Whittington Summer Show

We are delighted to be attending this year’s Whittington Summer Show, from 2pm on the afternoon of Saturday 4th September. It will be a busy day as I will be sharing my time between representing Typ...

20 aug 10

Little Book of Letterpress

Chronicle Books will shortly be publishing the Little Book of Letterpress, edited by Charlotte Rivers and with a foreword by Yee-Haw Industries. “Thanks to traditional letterpress technique’s popula...

15 jul 10

The end of movable type in China

Thanks to a number of creative individuals that I follow on Twitter, I discovered a fascinating article about the sad demise of letterpress in China. Given my deep interest in letterpress printing, ...

02 jul 10

‘What Face Wednesday’ No.20

Welcome to the twentieth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress Christmas cards (including free Internation...

09 dec 09

‘Hot and off the press’ Financial Times letterpress article

Saturday’s issue of the Financial Times (21st November 2009) featured an article exploring the renaissance of letterpress printing for greeting cards and social stationery. Nestled amongst advertisem...

23 nov 09

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