Yesterday, while running some tests I found two more double-sided wood blocks. Well, sometimes you can find some weird stuff at the back of woodtype:)
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One more interesting letterpress related book is about to hit the shelves very soon. After 2 years of working, the book celebrating the 100 year of printing on the Vandercook press, edited and self-published by Heather Mitchell is available for pre-order.
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Some random atelier pictures: beautiful lithography stone, most probably used for package printing, old engravings and punches.
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French studio La Casse have been recently involved in many letterpress projects and experiments. A serie of typographic cards for Le Musée de l'imprimerie de Nantes (Printing Museum in Nantes) is an interesting project that caught my attention.
Read MoreLetterpress artist Rob LoMascolo talks about the traditional craft of printing in a short instructional videos on Fortnight online documentary project.
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This decorative alphabet was produced by Nigel Bents, Paul Oakley and Jonny Holmes at Chelsea College of Art & Design. Based on a downloaded Bodoni Poster font, it was designed digitally by students using Illustrator, laser cut out of 3mm plywood by Cut Laser Cut in Vauxhall and mounted on type-high block by Stef Willis in the college workshop.
It was then printed at Graham Bignell's New North Press in Hoxton."
Absolutely beautiful!
Read More"…artists and biologist are taught to observe the nature.
Biologist are taught to study the functioning of the organic physical world
and the artists are taught to make social observation of the physical world."