Friends at ‘Press Here’ have a nice Facebook album of Culross the Printers in the 1940s.
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Shipley Print Festival
Exciting news of a Wayzgoose in Shipley in June!
Friends at I Love Typography have a delightful article about chromatic type. Like other letterpress printers I fetishise these types, including the newly-produced woodletter.
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Justin Knopp: Dazzle Border
The wonderful ‘Dazzle Border’ from Typoretum.
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Joshua Panter: Film of Hooksmith Press
Joshua Panter was in touch to let me know of his short film about Hooksmith Press in East London. I thought it’d be of interest to your readers as it’s a thriving letterpress business, and the short covers both the story of owner Russell Frost and his journey from New Zealand to East London, along…
Richard Ardagh At Wilton’s Music Hall via. Spitalfields Life Designer, Typographer & Printer, Richard Ardagh of New North Press in Hoxton has collaborated with the pupils of Bigland School in Stepney to create these splendid letterpress signs for Wilton’s Music Hall, telling tales of its colourful history. Printed with wood blocks and metal type onto book…
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Print Futures Award: Call for Applications
Seeking applications for the Printing Charity’s Print Futures Award.
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GreatBigStory.com: The Saguache Crescent
From greatbigstory.com – “The Saguache Crescent” newspaper in Saguache, Colo., has been printing its news the same way since the 1800s. Lay the letters. Ink. Press. Publisher Dean Coombs’ family has had the business for three generations, and has helped print out the weekly broadsheet on a linotype since he was 12 years old. See…
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Adana 8 x 5 Returns to Production
From Print Week: the Adana 8 x 5 has returned to production!
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Alan Kitching: Suffolk and Glasgow
More Alan Kitching exhibitions — Snape in Suffolk from 03 June to 20 August; and The Lighthouse in Glasgow from the end of this year. – via. Creative Review’s Review of the Exhibition
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Letterpress Junction
A great write-up by Justin Fenner of a new venture by Ed Denovan — Letterpress Junction — providing jobbing letterpress printing to designers. Best wishes, Ed!
I’m still catching up with this, but a wonderfully illustrated article from Port Magazine article about Erik Spiekermann’s letterpress workshop. via. The Counter Press Nice, very nice. RT “@constructstudio: Check out Constructs latest lesson @espiekermann: a master class in type http://t.co/0K2sBtRnNJ” — The Counter Press (@thecounterpress) April 16, 2015