More London Underground insight: A letter from Eiichi Kono to the designer of Johnston Sans, the famous London Underground typeface
Category: Blog
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Justin at Fenner: The Correct Size for a Business Card
Justin’s notes on the correct size for business cards.
“Social & Business Card Sizes” by kvanhorn is licensed under CC BY
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Press Here: Culross the Printers in the 1940s
Friends at ‘Press Here’ have a nice Facebook album of Culross the Printers in the 1940s.
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I Love Typography: The Evolution of Chromatic Type
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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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 with an insight into the craft of letterpress and what it takes to create a print.
Thanks, Josh!
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Spitalfields Life: New North Press at Wiltons Music Hall
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 cloth mounted on board in the nineteenth century manner, they are more than enough reason – should you ever require it – for a return trip to Wilton’s.
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Print Futures Award: Call for Applications
The Print Futures Awards are grants of up to £1,500 to help people aged 18 to 30 years train or help further to develop their careers in printing, publishing, packaging and graphic arts or develop their existing roles in those sectors. People are eligible to apply for an Award if they are UK residents and –
- Intend or are studying for a paper, printing, publishing, packaging or graphic arts qualification
- Work in those sectors and want to undertake short courses to develop their workplace skills
- Are apprentices or studying for NVQs in print-related organizations.
Print Futures Awards isn’t a grant to be used to subsidising for companies for outgoings, equipment, normal staff training costs.
https://www.theprintingcharity.org.uk/print-futures-awards-2017/
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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 how the news is made the hard way.
