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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Call for entries. 30th Anniversary Poster & Broadside Exhibit
image by Interrobang letterpress
"In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the founding of the LGNE, the Letterpress Guild of New England (1982-2012), it was decided to mount an exhibition to educate, entertain, and inform the public. What better form than the letterpress poster and broadside, mediums which have always served that purpose."
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exhibition
September 1st - 30th, 2012
The Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, Massachusetts
Vanderborght & Dumont
While doing research in the MIAT museum library I discovered two Belgian type specimen books by Vanderborght & Dumont type foundry.
First one is a well produced comprehensive specimen with a large section of Elzevir, and ornamental faces plus a large section (109 leaves) of decorative material. The book is 22x28cm and in a very good shape. The second specimen is not in perfect state, some pages are missing.
The type foundry was established in Brussels by Michel-Joseph Vanderborght (1801 - 1870). Vanderboorght optimized the typecasting manufacturing by having a cooling system to double output of the characters.
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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"…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."
Rules
Absolutely love this quotes/rules from "Nineteenth Century Job Printing Display - The Poster", a little guide about typesetting/printing typeset with metal type and printed by Bowne & Co., Stationers in 1989 in New York. Clean instructions for being a good composer!
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