British Letterpress

Leicester Print Workshop are offering a stunning year-long course in letterpress printing, hosted by the highly-recommended David Armes and Theo Miller.

Heading to see a friend in Anglia, I took the chance to contact John at Francis Cupiss, Diss.

Despite Covid restrictions, the letterpress champions at St Bride are organising a virtual wayzgoose.

Mary from Maid in Britain has been in touch — the Rufford Printing Co in Mawdesley, Lancashire helped me produce a booklet — a first for them I think — typeset on the last Intertype machine of its kind ever made and which was in use at the Guardian until…

Friends at St Brides are showing Pressing On: The Letterpress Film. 27 October, 6pm to 9pm.

Article from the Centre for Printing History and Culture, on the origins of the word ‘wayzgoose’ to describe a printers’ beano.

A delightful film of the creation of Monotype portraits.

Not sure how I missed this, but a 2010 article with Phil Abel of Hand & Eye Letterpress in the Guardian.

The Print Futures Awards help people develop their career in the UK printing, paper, publishing, packaging and graphic arts sectors.

A rather lavish and jealousy-inducing article from It’s Nice, That, on Erik Spiekermann’s letterpress works.