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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…