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
It might be because I love the topic, but I find letterpress lends itself to film. So much to capture, so many details and such a rich variety of materials it’s easy to see why film makers enjoy putting our process on film. Diogo Atadini has been in touch about his film of the Hooksmith…
Nice article from Wired commenting on the revival in letterpress, with a focus on the role of photopolymer in that revival. My personal view is that most of those new to the craft love messing about with individual metal types as part of the process, rather than jumping to polymer.
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LCBA: A Very Tidy Works
I’m late to this (as always) but can’t resist a little envy at the delightfully tidy works at the London Centre for Book Arts.
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Monotype: The Wolpe Exhibition
A wonderful exhibition from Monotype at the Type Archive on the work of Berhold Wolpe, perhaps most famous for the beautiful Albertus. Excited to announce our upcoming exhibition The Wolpe Exhibition @TypeArchive. Join us Sept 29 — Oct 30 https://t.co/hdGyjBXEd8 #MeetWolpe pic.twitter.com/jnBy6gYUHj — Monotype. (@Monotype) September 18, 2017
A note from St Bride on an upcoming event. I am emailing on behalf of the St Bride Foundation where I curate their events programme as I wanted to let you know about a talk we have coming up that may be of interest to you and your fellow members. It is being held on Friday…
An enjoyable Telegraph article about Kelvyn Smith, proprietor of Mr Smith’s Letterpress workshop. A thoroughly nice man who was good enough to talk me through his approach to printing a couple of years ago.
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You Need the Gill Sans Ensemble!
Lovely specimens of Gill Sans via. ‘Letterform Archive’ Photo by tarrytown
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Letterform Archive: Linotype Master Drawings
News of the San Fransisco-based Letterform Archive’s acquisition of 6,000+ master drawings of Linotype faces. Great examples of the drawings of some of the key Linotype faces at the foot of the article.
Just a few days left of this BBC4 documentary by Mark Ovenden. I’ve not yet watched it but have seen nothing but excellent reviews of Mark’s documentary. BBC4: Two Types: The Faces of Britain