From Print Week: the Adana 8 x 5 has returned to production!
Category: Blog
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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!
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Port: Erik Spiekermann: a master class in type
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
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Yorkshire Film Archive: Printers’ Ink
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.
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Lapsed Historian: A Typeface for the Underground
Article from the Lapsed Historian blog on Edward Johnston’s face for the London Underground — a great read.
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The Stationers
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.
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People of Print: Justin Knopp, Typoretum
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.
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Monotype’s New “Eric Gill” Series
Monotype have released their new ‘Eric Gill Series’, a re-creation of Gill and Joanna faces and their variants.
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The Art of the Marbler
Richard Small found this little gem about paper marbling.
https://twitter.com/letter_presser/status/643929360697692160