After seeing this window, I realized I have a good excuse to visit Amsterdam.
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Double-sided wood block
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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The Vandercook 100
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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Random pictures. MIAT
Some random atelier pictures: beautiful lithography stone, most probably used for package printing, old engravings and punches.
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La Casse
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.
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Letterpress artist Rob LoMascolo talks about the traditional craft of printing in a short instructional videos on Fortnight online documentary project.
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Laser cut Bodoni
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!
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