20 5 / 2013

tuureluure:

www.lillicarre.com

Like a Lantern by Lilli Carre

16 5 / 2013

cowellpress:

(via Anaïs Nin on Self-Publishing, the Magic of Letterpress, and the Joy of Handcraft | Brain Pickings)

You pit your faculties against concrete problems. The victories are concrete, definable, touchable. A page of perfect printing. You can touch the page you wrote. We exult in what we master and discover. Instead of using one’s energy in a void, against frustrations, in anger against publishers, I use it on the press, type, paper, a source of energy. Solving problems, technical, mechanical problems. Which can be solved. 
Anaïs Nin 
 

cowellpress:

(via Anaïs Nin on Self-Publishing, the Magic of Letterpress, and the Joy of Handcraft | Brain Pickings)

You pit your faculties against concrete problems. The victories are concrete, definable, touchable. A page of perfect printing. You can touch the page you wrote. We exult in what we master and discover. Instead of using one’s energy in a void, against frustrations, in anger against publishers, I use it on the press, type, paper, a source of energy. Solving problems, technical, mechanical problems. Which can be solved

Anaïs Nin 

 

(via serialmachinist)

04 5 / 2013

printeresting:

At The Print Center.

28 4 / 2013

12 4 / 2013

printeresting:

Ellen Heck makes beautiful etchings.

03 3 / 2013

letter-pressed:

2 Crow Press

08 2 / 2013

Using a 3D printer to make type!

(Source: feltsideup, via serialmachinist)

28 1 / 2013

22 1 / 2013

printeresting:

(via emilyjanetodd) GRAPHIC, MAN & PRESS, Letterpress & Carbon Copy Drawings on Recycled Paper, December 2012

printeresting:

(via emilyjanetodd) GRAPHIC, MAN & PRESS, Letterpress & Carbon Copy Drawings on Recycled Paper, December 2012

18 1 / 2013

typeworship:

Happy Birthday Johnston and the London Underground

This week London sees the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. To commemorate the occasion a stream locomotive used in the 19th century made a journey through the modern tunnels of the Metropolitan line. See more on the BBC

It is also 100 years since its iconic typeface Johnston Sans was released as the the ‘Underground’ typeface. Dan Rhatigan, type director at Monotype and forthcoming interviewee of 8 Faces talks about Edward Johnston and the typeface here.  

The structured, based on a calligraphic nib held at a 45 degree angle, is emphasised by Johnston’s diamond tittle shapes (the dots over the i and j), one of it’s most recognisable characteristics.

(via smokeandsong)

18 1 / 2013

thesalvagepress:

Five more linocut illustrations, each measure 230 x 230mm.

18 1 / 2013

serialmachinist:

Albert, Ernest & the Titanic

Website here.

(Source: vimeo.com)

12 1 / 2013

thesalvagepress:

‘For the love of Letterpress’ is a short documentary by Dara deFaoite (White House Docs) which gives a glimpse into the current letterpress scene in Dublin. It features; Nicola Carty; Seán Sills from Distillers Press; Mary Plunkett; Vinnie Caprani, Con Devlin & Alf McCormack from The National Print Museum; and myself. Nicely put together too.

(via serialmachinist)

12 1 / 2013

thesalvagepress:

The only mention of the printers in a survivor’s account is by Marie Brice Young.

06 1 / 2013

The use of letterpress imagery (metal type, wood type, a lock-up) in the credit sequence of Ripper Street.