Mary from Maid in Britain has been in touch — the Rufford Printing Co in Mawdesley, Lancashire helped me produce a booklet — a first for them I think — typeset on the last Intertype machine of its kind ever made and which was in use at the Guardian until 1987 — then hand printed…
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Friends at St Brides are showing Pressing On: The Letterpress Film. 27 October, 6pm to 9pm. More details on the St Bride website.
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CPHC: Way goose origins
Article from the Centre for Printing History and Culture, on the origins of the word ‘wayzgoose’ to describe a printers’ beano.
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Pathé: Monotype Portraits
A delightful film of the creation of Monotype portraits. I can’t remember where I found the admittedly-poor-quality image in the header, but I think that would have been the output.
Not sure how I missed this, but a 2010 article with Phil Abel of Hand & Eye Letterpress in the Guardian.
The Print Futures Awards help people develop their career in the UK printing, paper, publishing, packaging and graphic arts sectors. What are the Print Futures Awards? The Awards are grants of up to £1,500 to help individuals develop their workplace skills or assist new people to follow a pathway into employment with living and travel…
A rather lavish and jealousy-inducing article from It’s Nice, That, on Erik Spiekermann’s letterpress works. Truly wonderful to see such a great name in design return to letterpress with a craft approach to the whole thing.
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Creative Review: BBC Reith Font
Only a glancing connection with letterpress but a face that will end up as one of the fonts that define how the UK looks (along with ‘Transport’ used on road signs). This Creative Review article looks at replacing Gill with a custom font called Reith.
A fellow Letterpress Exchange Group member, Gordon Chesterman, has been working with Print My Part to create letterpress blocks. All reported here on Cambridge Network. You can also see more of the blocks and Gordon’s work on Flickr.
Superb article by Kax Koehler on making a letterpress fount using acrylic laser-cut letters and MDF. Excellent use of new technology!
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Medium: Designing the letter 'Æ'
An account on Medium of designing the letter Æ. Header Image By Szomjasrágó at Hungarian Wikipedia (Transferred from hu.wikipedia to Commons.) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Typoretum: Rainbow Inking
Short videos are rarely as satisfying as this! Would love to see the end result. 7 colour rainbow roll on our #Soldan proofing press during last weeks’ #letterpress #course 🌈💥 Visit https://t.co/lACVyYOpfi for more info… pic.twitter.com/lcUbgJcQQo — Typoretum (@typoretum) July 17, 2017