British LetterpressJoshua 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…
Seeking applications for the Printing Charity’s Print Futures Award.
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…
From Print Week: the Adana 8 x 5 has returned to production!
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
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
A wonderful film from the Yorkshire Film Archive of the Todmorden News. While much is devoted to the news gathering process, there’s a linecaster of some sort and a Cossar Press to do the hard work of printing.
Article from the Lapsed Historian blog on Edward Johnston’s face for the London Underground — a great read.
The City of London’s Livery Company for those in ‘visual and graphic communication’ (but printers, most of all) is the subject of the Gentle Author’s work in this account of Stationers’ Hall. You can also read Justin Fenner’s account of being admitted as a Freeman.
I’m still catching up on old links and found this People of Print Interview from July: the ever-amazing Typoretum with Just Knopp at the helm.
