A lovely write up of last month’s Wayzgoose at the St Bride Foundation by Type & Press.
Tag: London
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St Bride Foundation Blog: Election Typefaces
An excellent article by Bob Richardson for the St Bride Foundation Blog on Election Typefaces — our next General Election now just a week away!
Header Image: “Polling Station” flickr photo by secretlondon123 https://flickr.com/photos/secretlondon/6997132774 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license
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Eye Magazine: Dear Mr Johnston
More London Underground insight: A letter from Eiichi Kono to the designer of Johnston Sans, the famous London Underground typeface
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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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Pixel Press, Stoke Newington
Small yet well equipped letterpress studio in North London. We run workshops sharing our expertise and love for printmaking with anyone willing to try it at affordable rates. We like to think about our studio as a space to think, a space for poetry and words.
Tel: 0794373 5179
Unit 24, Shelford Place, Stoke Newington, London N16 9HS
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St Bride Re-Opens!
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 direction.
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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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Spitalfields Life: At the Caslon Letter Foundry
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.