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…
Pixel Press in Stoke Newington
A great relief — St Bride Library will re-open once a month from 06 April. There are some conditions: including the request that you are booked in a week in advance, have a list of the things you want to refer to, and pay a fee to retrieve books; but a great step in the right…
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.
Another series of pictures of the Caslon Letter Foundry at 22⁄23 Chiswell St., London. Caslon were taken over by Stephenson, Blake around 1937. Pictures from the St Bride Library via. the Gentle Author.
On 31 July I posted that the Library at St Bride’s was to close, but nothing had been published on the Foundation’s website. Around the same time PrintWeek reported that the Library was being ‘restructured’. The Association of European Museums said – Given the climate of uncertainty which has surrounded the future development of the St…
Terrible news this afternoon: after 123 years St Bride Library will close. The website it not yet updated, but this message was posted to the LETPRESS list today – St Bride Foundation Update We would like to bring to your attention that due to funding constraints the Foundation regrets that it is no longer possible to keep…
The St. Bride Foundation will be holding a Wayzgoose — a printers’ fair — this coming Sunday 17 May between 11am and 4pm. Details at their website! [googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1 m³!1d4966.100667204068!2d‑0.10542691534423829!3d51.51229256086154!2 m³!1f0!2f0!3f0!3 m²!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3 m³!1 m²!1s0x4876055c47318b3b%3A0x143cf4512f8f9f07!2sSt+Bride+Foundation!5e0!3 m²!1sen!2suk!4v1431625017273&w=600&h=450]
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