Printed as my submission to the open entry exhibition ‘Interrobang’ at the renowned Dichling Museum of Arts & Crafts, this poster was created as my answer to a very open brief (ie: print…
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I’ve been trying to track down information on my Farley proofing press since I first picked it up a couple of years ago, but it seems that documentation is actually…
Posting this a little early, so here’s hoping that the wife doesn’t read this blog too often… Last week I started thinking about Valentine’s day cards. For the first time, this…
Well, 2015 flew past. It seemed like yesterday I was racking my brains trying to figure out how to print last year’s snowflake effort. Here’s a writeup of my more…
Following the collection of my Arab Crown Folio from North Wales, the press has been sat in pieces in a warehouse waiting to be put back together. I would have loved to have…
Last year I went along to the first Bristol Festival of Print, hosted by the Letterpress Collective at the Centrespace gallery in the city centre. I was heading there to…
So, I accidentally bought an Arab Crown Folio last week at a house clearance auction. Fully expecting to not win, I submitted a bid on the website, below the estimate price…
On a recent trip to Amsterdam, I was recommended by Armina Ghazaryan to visit Typique – a letterpress shop in the City Centre. Run by Rene Treumann since 1967. This shop is the…
Back in March I was fortunate enough to head to Warsaw, Poland, with work. I had a day to spare and managed to find time to get to the Neon…
A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across a link on Twitter from Dan Rhatigan (Monotype Type Director) about an open evening at The Type Archive in South London – a place I’ve…
Today I found myself with a couple of hours to spare whilst on a work trip to CES in Las Vegas. Having decided earlier in the week that I am…
1 crazy idea, 2 presses, 3 days, 4 impressions, 50 stamps, lots of swearing. Christmas card exchange 2014 – done.
This summer we took our holiday in and around New York City. We stayed a few days in Manhattan, then road-tripped all the way up to Lake Placid, before heading…
At our wedding in September 2013, our good friend made a beautiful reading of The Master Speed by Robert Frost. It is such a poignant poem and linked really nicely…
This is something I’ve wanted to do even before I got my first type cabinet. Earlier this year I finally managed to make a space in the flat, get the…
The first weeks of September are a very important time for me each year, as they coincide with my wedding anniversary Presstival. In 2012, I had just had a knee operation…
I’d just managed to get a new press to my flat in London (thanks Pat), and had about 4 hours at home before heading off to a wedding in Wales….
These Ludlow matrix gauges are hard to come by, so much so that if I were to lose my one I’d be buggered. So, I decided it might be a…
Once again, I joined in the UK Letterpress Christmas Card exchange. This year Phil Treble passed the baton to Jacqui Sharples, of Print for Love of Wood fame, and she…
When I got my Farley Proofing press, it came without a feedboard, which is essential for using this machine efficiently. After contacting everyone I know and trawling libraries (St. Brides)…
In the Summer I had the opportunity to visit long-time internet friend Nick from Yorkshire-based The Print Project as he was teaching a Letterpress course at the London Centre for…
Well, that was a hell of a project. I may have (ever so slightly, maybe) blown the production budget of £150, but it was well worth it and I’m really…
With the wedding coming up, we’ve had to sort out loads of stuff. One of the most important things will be the booze. I’m not one for champagne, so for…
My colleague, Daigo, was due to return to Tokyo after three years living in the UK. In keeping with my current map theme, I overprinted his name on a cycling…
I’m getting married in September, which is a perfect excuse to print loads of stuff. First up was our ‘Save the Dates’… Our wedding is literally in the middle of…
When I realised that I was getting myself into type casting, with the acquisition of my Ludlow Typograph, I went on the hunt for information about the machine and process….
Finally had some spare time to get a but of printing done last week. A good friend of mine managed to get a new job so thought I’d knock together…
My last few weeks have been pretty hectic to say the least. On the same day I was picking up the Ludlow I got a call from a lovely-sounding lady…
I finally went back to see Peter, the guy I got my Ludlow from to have a chat without having to lift anything. Over a cup of tea, he very…
In November last year I got the chance to go and visit Simon Goode up at the London Centre for Book Arts to mainly say hello and lend a hand….
My old man is a scrap man. Well, not quite, but he buys and sells special metals for recycling. This means that he spends a lot of times visiting scrapyards…
Leading up to Christmas I joined up to a letterpress Christmas card exchange. Expertly organised by Phil Treble, there were around 20 printers around the country sending cards out in…
Last week I got an email from someone saying that they’ve just bought a house and had a shed full of type and an old Peerless No.2 printing press in…
I got some images back yesterday of the new press part being built. It’s looking great in my opinion and with a little bit of tempering and some fine-tuned machining,…
I got sent some more images of the scanning process of my broken bracket today from Materials Solutions. Here you can see the two broken pieces more clearly, and a…
As you know, my Peerless platen press cracked during a print run a few weeks back. It was the ink disk bracket that must have weakened over the many years,…
After the nightmare of a broken press midway through a job (one of my first), I reverted back to my trusty Adana to finish these invites. I had to print…
Was happily printing away this morning, the press was oiled and running smoothly, and I was not printing with too much impression… then an almighty crack. The bracket holding the…
Finally, there is someone in the UK offering a chase base and platemaking system similar to the well-know Boxcar sevice over the other side of the pond. I’d always been…
Back in May, I was lucky enough to visit Japan again with work and managed to find an hour in my schedule to finally visit the Tokyo Printing Museum. After…
Hi All, Just found someone who is looking to sell their Peerless Platen press, a great machine and something I searched for nearly 2 years for. Simon Goode, has the…
I had the opportunity to make some business cards for a friend last week who was beginning life as boss of his own architecture company, Kirkwood McLean. Based on their…
A few months ago, our great friends from France, Florent and Emmanuelle, came over to print their wedding invites with us. They also brought some home-made Tartiflette, which is the…
I finally got round to printing some calling cards last night. I used the striking combination of black and red ink on a bright white Lettra 600gsm stock to create…
As we had named the Peerless press Ivor, I thought it only fitting that the first print on the machine should be a name plate for it. Using 12-line type…
We spent a weekend printing on Ivor recently and the amazingly talented photographer Toril Brancher snapped some lovely detailed pictures of my antique press. More after the jump…
We were off to visit Toril & Carl for their birthday last weekend and wanted to make some special cards for them. Combining an 8-line wooden grotesk font and some…
Katherine (my girlfriend) needed some simple business cards made, so what better way than to bring out the Adana, cut down some Lettra paper and get pressing. The simple black…
One of my first acquisitions of metal type was from a scrap yard. I managed to track down around 60kg of printers pie a few years back. It turned out…
Welcome to Letterpresser. Now I know that isn’t a technical term, but it was the best I could think of that summed up my adventures. I’m a print geek stuck…