Journal

Letterpress Workers 2021 edition, day 2

Pictures of the second day. More to follow…

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Letterpress Workers 2021 edition, day 1

Pictures of the first day. More to follow…

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Designing Type

Letterpress printing attracts designers, writers, poets and artists – in fact anyone interested in language and form. Letter-arts including calligraphy, letter cutting, as well as a very small number of people practising punch cutting are all members of this very broad fraternity. If you have a passion for letterpress, there is a high probability that […]

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Letterpress wood type

Wood Type

Letterpress type manufactured from wood is a natural, delicate resource. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to locate and due to its rising on-line value, has resulted in dealers separating out individual elements to maximise their profitability. This makes anyone who is a custodian of wood type aware that they have a responsibility to take the best […]

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Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters

Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters

It has been a decade since the influential UK letterpress exhibition ‘Reverting to Type’ was staged by New North Press in London. It showcased over seventy printed works from individuals and presses across Europe and as far afield as Australia and the Americas. Acting as a conduit to contemporary practice in the centuries-old craft of […]

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