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.
Author: benb
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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.
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Cambridge News Network: 3D Printed Letterpress Blocks
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.
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Max Koehler: Adopting a Digital Typeface for Letterpress Printing
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.
https://twitter.com/typoretum/status/886833626092097536
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Diogo Atadini: The Art of Letterpress/Hooksmith Press
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 Press. Beautiful work!
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Wired: How letterpress printing came back from the dead
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
