Urban Cottage Industries asked that I join their printer, David Evans, to discuss letterpress printing. They run a battery of linecasting machines and run a number of presses to create their bespoke and short-run printed goods. David — when back at Airedale Products — was good enough to discuss printing with my as I got started…
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Frost In May: Adana P71 Running
Viki Adams has an update (with video) of her Adana P71
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Semple Press: Invitation from the Meynells
A lovely story, and even better Monotype border, from Alix and Francis Meynell over at the Semple Press.
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The Wipers Times
The BBC will broadcast a programme detailing the Wipers Times, a trench magazine made by soldiers at Ypres in World War I. I understand Tim Honnor’s Arab will have star billing!
A really splendid specimen of multi-colour woodletter, hosted by Archive.org Hat tip: Worth a Second Look:An old wood type specimen book that will make you happy.http://t.co/yxPGZSQFaz — Present & Correct (@presentcorrect) November 5, 2013
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James Mosley: 'Commercial at' or @
Greatly informative article on the history of the ‘commercial at’ or @ symbol by James Mosley.
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Archive.org: Fredk. Ullmer Catalogue 1902
Steve Saxe, with the help of David MacMillan, has scanned an uploaded the 1902 catalogue from this London Typefounder to Archive.org
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Spitalfields Life: The Caslon Letter Foundry
The ever-excellent Gentle Author looks at the Caslon Letter Foundry, Chiswell Street, London
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Letterpress in Mogadishu
An article in The Atlantic about a printing works in Somalia’s capital. Great ephemeral printing in very trying conditions on a Heidelberg Cylinder Press.
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Hand & Eye: New Heidelberg Cylinder Press
An account from Hand & Eye of the installation of their latest press.