August 2, 2014 – 12:05 pm
A documentary film, by www.digital-works.co.uk, based on oral history interviews with former printers and journalists. “There used to be a tradition in Fleet Street newspapers called “banging out”. It involved an employee, on the day he retired after a life-time’s stalwart service to his chosen rag, being walked by his colleagues through the presses in […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in craft, Education, hot metal, press, pressmanship, printing, Printing Presses, Typesetting
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Tagged Apprentice, Banging Out, Compositor, compositors, Digital Works, digital:works, Fleet Street, History, Journeyman, london, Machine Minder, National Graphical Association, NGA, Oral History, printing, Union
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I have just returned from the third Letterpress Workers International Summit, organised and hosted by Officina Novepunti. Located at Leoncavallo, Milan, between the 18th to 22nd June, the event was attended by international letterpress designers and printers, from as far afield as Mexico. A large selection of printing presses and collection of wood type were […]
By Justin Knopp
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Tagged 2014, Justin Knopp, Leoncavallo, letterpress, Milan, Milano, Officina Novepunti, Typoretum, wood type, woodletter
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December 9, 2013 – 5:38 pm
Endless Letterpress is a documentary about present of woodtype presses in Argentina, filmed by Nicolás Rodríguez Fuchs. Sadly I discovered this film after the fundraising effort had ended but more information can be found at fb.com/losultimosdoc “Buenos Aires deepest suburbs, July 2013. Three old print shops disputes the printing of cumbia and boxing posters. Second […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in craft, hot metal, posters, press, printing, Typesetting, typography, wood type, woodletter
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Tagged Argentina, Buenos Aires, letterpress, Los Ultimos, Nicolás Rodríguez Fuchs, printing, Type, wood, woodletter
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November 9, 2013 – 3:16 pm
Of my earliest ancestry neither history nor relics remain. The wedge-shaped symbols impressed in plastic clay by Babylonian builders in the dim past foreshadowed me: from them, on through the hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptians, down to the beautiful manuscript letters of the mediaeval scribes, I was in the making. With the golden vision of […]
By Justin Knopp
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Tagged 1928, compositors, F.W. Goudy, Goudy, hot metal, letterpress, london, Lord Mayor’s Parade, Lord Mayor’s Show, Type
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November 2, 2013 – 3:13 pm
The Atelier Press came into being in 1970 as the private press of Stan Nelson. Stan has been interested in printing since the age of nine, and formerly operated as the Nelson Job Shop and later as Norse Custom Printing. After becoming aware of the world of Fine Printing, Stan chose to name his press […]
October 6, 2013 – 8:27 pm
At the end of September 2013 The Occasional Print Club held their 7th meeting deep down in the basement of Kulturwerk des BBK in Kreuzberg, Berlin, a grand building in Mariannenplatz that was formerly a Prussian hospital. In attendance this time were myself, Thomas Mayo, Patrick Randle and Ross Shaw. The Print Studio at KBBK […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in Justin Knopp, OPC, Pat Randle, posters, press, printing, Ross Shaw, The Occasional Print Club, Thomas Mayo, typography
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Tagged Berlin, FAG, Justin Knopp, KBBK, Kulturwerk des BBK Berlin, letterpress, metal type, Occasional Print Club, OPC, Pat Randle, Patrick Randle, Ross Shaw, Thomas Mayo
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September 14, 2013 – 6:26 pm
Here at Typoretum, we have embarked on an ambitious project to create a limited edition portfolio of experimental designs printed directly from wooden types. The book will be letterpress printed on Victorian printing machines and will feature over 200 individual wood type faces from the private collection of Justin Knopp, founder of Typoretum. The estimated […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in books, craft, design, designs, Justin Knopp, printing, Typesetting, typography, Typoretum, wood type, woodletter
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Tagged book, design, experimental, limited edition, Type, typography, Typoretum, wood type, woodletter
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August 21, 2013 – 11:17 am
Over recent months I have greatly enjoyed following Bunkertype on Pinterest – http://pinterest.com/bunkertype/ – in part due to our common admiration and respect for the letterpress work of H.N. Werkman. Based in Barcelona, Jesús Morentin’s Bunkertype letterpress studio produces beautiful and experimental letterpress work in small editions manually from metal and wood types. Bunkertype on […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in craft, design, h.n. werkman, hot metal, hot printing, press, printing, printmaking, Private Presses, Typesetting, typography, werkman, wood type
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Tagged bunkertype, h.n. werkman, hot metal, hot printing, Jesús Morentin, letterpress, typography
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We are currently exhibiting our letterpress work in the ‘Happy Days’ exhibition, curated by Blackwater Polytechnic and hosted in Ben Coode-Adams & Freddie Robins’ award-winning Grand Designs barn here in North Essex, GB. ‘Happy Days’ is “an exhibition of exceptional construction in wood, textiles, ink, paint, metal & concrete made by men and women with […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in art, craft, design, Galleries, posters, printmaking, Typoretum
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Tagged Art, Ben Coode-Adams, Blackwater Polytechnic, craft, exhibition, Freddie Robins, Happy Days, Justin Knopp, letterpress, show, Typoretum
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Public Service Broadcasting commissioned Typoretum to design and letterpress print a limited edition (100 copies) poster, to accompany the launch of their debut album ‘Inform, Educate, Entertain’ (publicservicebroadcasting.net/inform-educate-entertain-out-now/) in May 2013. The posters were printed from antique Elongated Sans Serif wood type and Granby Light metal type onto high-quality 170gsm cartridge paper, signed and editioned […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in posters, typography, Typoretum, wood type, woodletter
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Tagged Gietz, Granby, IEE, Inform Educate Entertain, letterpress, metal, Poster, PSB, Public Service Broadcasting, Sans Serif, sans surryphs, Type, Typoretum, wood, woodletter
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