‘Ink & Paper’ documentary by Ben Proudfoot
A short documentary about the Aardvark Press, one of the last letterpress printers in Los Angeles and McManus & Morgan Paper, Los Angeles’ oldest artist paper distributor.
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Silent Poster Sale – 2nd May 2012
This event is a collaboration between St Bride Foundation and BA Graphic Design students from Central Saint Martins to fundraise both for the Library and for the 2012 Graphic Design Degree Show....
View ArticleLewis Mitchell – Typecaster for life
A delightful short movie by the San Francisco Chronicle showing Lewis Mitchell at work, casting type on Monotype machines in the basement at the Arion Press in San Francisco. “I thoroughly enjoy the...
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Presstival & Whittington Press Open Day, 1st September 2012
Located five miles east of Cheltenham in the shadow of an Elizabethan manor, the family-run Whittington press (established by John Randle in 1971) will be throwing open its doors on Saturday 1st...
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Pencil to Pixel – Exhibition of artifacts & artwork from the Monotype archive.
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...
View Article‘The Wit & Wisdom of Leopold Bloom’ – a letterpress book project.
Fresh from his three-month placement at Typoretum, Jamie Murphy, a Dublin-based designer and letterpress printer, is seeking funding for an exciting letterpress book project – a limited edition of The...
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Jesús Morentin’s Bunkertype typography & letterpress studio.
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....
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I am the leaden army that conquers the world. I am type.
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...
View ArticleLos Ultimos – Letterpress printing in Argentina.
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...
View ArticleBanging Out – Fleet Street Remembered.
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...
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