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, letterpress, press, pressmanship, printing, Printing Presses
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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 […]
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Also posted in books, craft, design, designs, Justin Knopp, letterpress, printing, 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, letterpress, press, printing, printmaking, Private Presses, 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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April 17, 2013 – 10:59 am
Here is a great short film about Typoretum. An opportunity to see our presses in action and the craft of letterpress printing. Irish graphic designer and letterpress printer Jamie Murphy recently spent several months working here at Typoretum, developing his knowledge of letterpress typesetting and printing. As a thank you for his time here, Jamie […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in craft, design, Justin Knopp, letterpress, posters, press, printing, Private Presses, typography, Typoretum, wharfedale, wood type, woodletter
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Tagged Áine O'Meara, Albion, Coggeshall, Columbian, Enda O'Dowd, Film, Gietz, Heidelberg, ink, Jamie Murphy, Justin Knopp, letterpress, metal type, press, printing, Public Service Broadcasting, Robert Pratley, Typesetting, Typoretum, wharfedale, wood type, woodletter, Yellow Brick Media
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November 15, 2012 – 1:57 pm
The history of Monotype dates back to the late 19th Century, when it introduced groundbreaking new technology that revolutionised the production of metal type for letterpress printing. Tolbert Lanston, the inventor of this technology and founder of The Lanston Monotype Machine Company, patented this mechanical typesetting system in 1887 and introduced the first hot metal […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in craft, design, hot metal, letterpress, matrices, Monotype, printing, typecasting, typography
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Tagged Composition Caster, exhibition, Gill Sans, hot metal, letterpress, matrices, Matrix, Monotype, Pencil to Pixel, Supercaster, Times New Roman, Tolbert Lanston, Type, typecasting
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October 19, 2012 – 11:27 pm
The London Centre for Book Arts is an open-access book arts studio, teaching facility and exhibition space in Fish Island, Hackney Wick, in East London. The first and only centre of its kind in the United Kingdom, LCBA provides access to specialist equipment and resources, including rare and historically important pieces, along with technical and […]
By Justin Knopp
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Tagged bookbinding, LCBA, letterpress, london, london centre for book arts, printing, printmaking, Simon Goode
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Our letterpress card for Vaughan Pilikian’s upcoming play, ‘Leper Colony‘. The edition was limited to 400 pieces and printed in two impressions onto 425gsm Saunders Waterford high-white hot-pressed 100% cotton card stock. The copy was typeset in a combination of 48 point Elongated Runic; 10 point, 14 point, and 18 point Bembo regular; 10 point […]
