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.
Author: benb
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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
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St Bride Event: Douglas Downing on The Dalziel Brothers
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 24 November at 7pm and is being given by Douglas Downing on The Dalziel Brothers. Douglas is a descendent of theirs so it will be a very rich and detailed talk about his research into the family and their work throughout the 60 years that they ran the Camden Press. Most notably, they cut the engravings for Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense and Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and worked with many well known artists including Millais, Whistler and Rosetti.
We are hoping to also print a keepsake for the evening in our print room too and will confirm this in the next month all being well.
For more information, you can visit our website at: http://www.sbf.org.uk/events/pictures-in-the-fire-or-great-uncle-george-dalziel-discovering-a-long-lost-family-history

