Artisanal workshops & studios

231 Market Classic Printing is a design and letterpress shop in Smithfield, North Carolina. Jean-Pierre has been printing for close to 50 years and specializes in offset and letterpress printing using original Heidelberg Presses. 231 Market Classic Printing prints everything and anything from business cards and letterheads to wedding invitations and announcements. 

Established in 2007, A Two Pipe Problem Letterpress is run by Stephen Kenny from The House Of Problems in Leyton, East London. Everything here is designed & printed directly on one of 3 machines using movable wood & metal type. Everything is printed one at a time by hand. The type in the collection come from type foundrys in England, France, Germany & the USA. The House Of Problems produces a range of stationery, prints & apparel. Projects are as varied as the wood type itse

In 1963, Luis Ocon left his native Mexico in seek of the American Dream. Luis came to Los Angeles to find work as a linotype operator, the skill he had perfected for many years in Mexico City. Linotype is the process of setting lead slugs, or “hard type” used for the vintage printing process known as letterpress.  In Los Angeles, Luis worked for several typography companies before he found work at Aardvark Typographers. Aardvark, established in 1968, was one of the top typographers in Los A

Albertine Press is a Boston-area design and letterpress print shop run by Shelley Barandes, a sometime-architect who just loved paper more. What began as a custom design and print studio has grown to include a full collection of greeting cards, note sets, coasters and journals available at stationery stores and gift boutiques across the country. In addition, Albertine Press continues to work closely with individuals on custom printing projects, from wedding invitations to business collateral, br

All Sorts Press is owned and operated by Sara Froese in Hamilton, Ontario and specializes in producing handcrafted high-quality printed matter using a human-powered Chandler & Price platen printing press from 1910.   

With over 20 years experience in stonemasonry, sculpture and architectural restoration, Andrew is qualified with the Guild of Master Craftsmen and trained to work in both classical and contemporary styles. Having worked on prestigious heritage sites including Bath Abbey and Wells Cathedral, he now specialises in hand carved lettering and his work is on display in private homes and public buildings throughout the West Country and Home Counties. In the same way that stone has been carved for

Animatipia is a letterpress printing studio in Spain run by Lola and Antonio, a History graduate and a doctor of Physics. 

Anonima Impressori is a design studio and letterpress workshop in Bologna, Italy. 

Appalachia Press is a letterpress printshop in Roanoke, Virginia. It is run by John Reburn. As an artist with over 25 years of experience, John spent most of his career in Los Angeles working as a graphic artist. Trained at Arizona State University and Otis Art Institute, his background in typography and graphic design led him to explore the beauty and simplicity of old-school printing.

ARB Letterpress is a full production commercial letterpress shop in Kansas City that specializes in letterpress, foil stamping, embossing, die cutting and bindery finishing work. ARB Letterpress was founded by shop owner Jan White. Jan worked in a print shop bindery her first year of college with an older gentlemen that ran a Heidelberg Windmill. After working there a while they began to train her on the Windmill and that was her first introduction to the letterpress industry. She learned how to

Archivio Tipografico is an active and collaborative space for the preservation, the study and the practice of typographic arts. The aims are to preserve, to keep alive and to reinvent in a contemporary way the craftsmanship knowledge for movable types composition and high quality letterpress printing. Archivio Tipografico was born in 2003 as a private collection of materials from several closing northern Italy print-shops. Today it counts 2.000 fonts of lead, wood and plastic movable t

Founded by Andrew Hoyem in 1974, the Arion Press publishes deluxe, limited-edition books, many of them printed by letterpress, illustrated by prominent artists, and some accompanied by separate editions of original prints. Arion Press is a cultural tenant at the Presidio, the new National Park in San Francisco, where it shares a handsome industrial building with its second division, M & H Type—the oldest and largest type foundry in the United States, serving the needs of designers and letter

ART HOUSE Letterpress is a design and letterpress studio in Kazan, the largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. 

Atelierwerkstatt Wien is a studio in Vienna run by Alfred Pfeiffer and Alexander Mandic. The studio offers graphic design work, letterpress printing and letterpress workshops. 

Base Camp Printing Company strives to keep its process identical to a print shop back in the day, when a cast-iron printing press was state-of-the-art technology. They specialize in posters, invitations, stationery, and business cards, designed, set and printed the old fashioned way — by hand.  Base Camp Printing is run by Emily Sokolosky. Born and raised in Charleston, WV, Emily is the owner, designer and printer at Base Camp Printing Company. Emily was introduced to letterpress during her stud

Bespoke Strokes is a calligraphy studio by Chantelle Hoffmann. She took courses with Masters Penmen Michael Sull, Harvest Crittendon, and Jake Weidmann.  She is also an active member of the International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting (IAMPETH).

Big Wheel Press is a traditional letterpress studio located in Easthampton, Massachusetts. It was founded by Bill Muller in 2006. He had first been introduced to the world of hand printing by his father in 1964.  After seeing The Ideal Toy Company's home printing press, called The Big Press, in Popular mechanics, he bought one as a gift for Bill.   Art, design and handmade crafts have been apart of Bill's life ever since. For 30 + years he has owned Guild Art Supply, a fine art supply store

Carly James and Kevin Nelson, co-owners of Bison Bookbinding and Letterpress, have been in the craft since 2004 and are passionate about preserving the printing technique. 

Black River Letterpress and Paper company is a design and letterpress studio. They specialize in wedding invitations and corporate event branding. As well as offering greeting cards and stationery products for retail outlets. The studio combines computer added design blended with the centuries old craft of letterpress printing. They have several vintage and antique printing presses including a Golding Jobber No.6 from 1887. The studio also offers training and letterpress workshops for those who

Jens Jørgen Hansen was born in 1969 and qualified as a silk screen printer in 2002 and as an adult teacher in 2005. He has been employed as a publicist and workshop leader at the Printing Museum in Esbjerg from 1995 to 1998.  He started his own private printing office in 2003 and took the title: bogtrykker (the Danish term for Printer). Today the workshop has a well equipped composing room with more than 450 fonts of wood, Monotype and foundry types. In the press room he works with my two fla

Boxcar Press is a commercial letterpress shop based in upstate New York. With more than 20,000 square feet of space, they are one of the largest letterpress print and pre-press shops in the USA.   

Bright Press is located within Whiteman Park in Perth, Western Australia. They specialise in creating quality printing using their collection of vintage presses. 

Rosella Garavaglia is an artist working on a wide range of calligraphy and lettering projects. Her main interest is to explore the expressive potential of the written word through various media and writing implements including the brush, fabric, wood, stone, glass and collage. Some of the provided services: logo design  signs and advertisements wedding stationery corporate events poem and quotations lettering art

Carimbo Letterpress, a letterpress Printshop in São Paulo, is the sum of the enthusiasm and efforts from Érico and Marcelo, two graphic designers with a passion for typography, printing and old stuff.

Carissimo Letterpress is a Vienna based studio where handcrafted stationary and customized projects like wedding invitations, announcements and business cards are designed and printed. 

Carla Hackett is a Melbourne-based letterer who runs her studio from a sunny shared creative space Little Gold Studios in Brunswick. She hand-crafts lettering for a range of clients in creative industries, including fashion, music, food, branding, retail, hospitality, magazines, books, weddings and conferences.

Cartoules Press is a design and letterpress studio located in sunny Long Beach, California, and is owned and operated by Julie Karatzis. Cartoules is Greek for “Little Cards”. With the mission to create well designed stationery in both Greek and English, and reach the Greek community both in the United States, Greece and beyond, their offerings have expanded from custom wedding invitations, to greeting cards, art prints and a variety of home goods. 

Charlotte Mason Printing Company is a printing press and design shop owned by Caitlyn Cooney in Pensacola, Florida specializing in hand printed goods including posters, stationary, greeting cards, custom work, and more.   

Cherry Press is a letterpress studio in the Cotswold town of Chipping Campden creating letterpress stationery. 

Clove St Press is a letterpress print shop in San Diego, California. It is run by Daniel Heffernan. 

In 2009, Doug and Bruce decided that their life in the commercial printing world, was not to their liking. Having spent 25+ years dealing with the fickle nature of the corporate world they found themselves lacking a creative outlet. It was the goal of the two to rekindle a lost art and become known for producing amazing work with techniques borrowed from a day long past. Both Doug and Bruce were taught their craft by Doug’s father who kept a watchful eye over their progress as journeym

Crow's Nest Press is an arts centered letterpress studio on Whidbey Island with a focus is on education, community engagement and artistic printing projects. Crow’s Nest Press creates unique printed items including; cards, notebooks, posters, stickers, business cards, coasters, invitations, announcements and limited edition art.  Crow's Nest Press offers beginners classes, workshops and one to one instruction to teach you everything you need to know about getting started. 

Doug & Danika met at Sydney’s College of Fine Arts where their love for graphics and typography was born. Since 2011 they run the letterpress shop D&d and offer things like letterpress wedding invitations, bespoke letterpressed business cards, swing tags and other unique high quality stationery.   

Darling Press & Stationers is a custom letterpress shop, design studio, and retail store with a curated selection of locally crafted wares in Portland, Oregon. 

Day Moon Press was founded in 1976 by Maura Shapley, with the purchase of a fifty-dollar Chandler and Price letterpress and several cabinets of foundry type. She met Jack LeNoir in 1978, and they were married in 1980. Two years later, the Press was moved to its current building on Beacon Hill, which is also the family residence. Over the years the Press acquired a variety of offset and letterpress equipment and small bindery tools, becoming a resource for artists, designers, and others need

Die Lettertypen is a letterpress workshop in Berlin run by Ralf Fischer. 

The DoppioFondo arts and culture association was founded in Venice in 2011. As a fine art print studio and independent publishing house, they specialise in workshops, artist-in-residence programmes and art projects. They also open up their studio to other artists to share our space and equipment. The name of our association—doppio fondo—literally means false bottom. It was inspired by their first studio location, a secret room on the ground floor of a 17th century building. The owner of the

A letterpress studio creating limited edition books from a range of beautiful metal type founts – lovingly collected over 27 years. The atelier is Michael Caine's playground – producing his publications, editions of modern European poetry, often illustrated with his own original prints (most recently under the imprint Editions Petropolis). Design/printing projects of every hue subsidise Caine's fanciful work as artist-printer-publisher and he has over 140 book commissions for a wide range of gal

Editions Studio is a book- and print-making studio in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood. The space is set up with four 4'x8' tables, seven printing presses, and a plethora of book art supplies. Anyone can rent studio time or attend the events and classes going on weekly. The studio has facilities for letterpress, litho, and bookmaking, among other things.

Elegante Press is letterpress studio owned by Saulius and Viktorija. They invitations, letterpress business cards, announcements, and stationery using traditional printing technologies.   

Elegante Press is a Lithuanian print and design studio. They print wedding invitations, custom letterpress business cards, business stationery and announcements. They also produce custom wine labels and packaging.  Elegante Press uses letterpress, silkscreen, hot foiling, engraving technologies in-house. They will work together with you in designing and printing custom print works to come up with a unique design tailored only for you, to outline your individuality and elegance. 

Evolution Press is a print shop in Seattle, Washington.  “With our fleet of seven Heidelberg presses we offer traditional letterpress printing, offset printing, or a combination of the two. If you’re into it our team will work with you to add custom touches like engraving, foil stamping, embossing, duplexing, or edge painting.”

Expedition Press publishes poetry books, broadsides, and visual art with a typographic focus. The mission is to deepen regard for language and to increase access to poetry. The shop houses a fully equipped letterpress studio and bindery, including three platen presses, board shears, a guillotine paper cutter, and thousands of pounds of metal type.  Expedition Press is located in downtown Kingston WA (northwest USA), a few blocks from the ferry dock. Myrna Keliher is the proprietor of Expedition

Feast Letterpress is a print shop in Calgary, Canada. It is run by Ian (a photographer) & Jess (a designer). They print on a 1920’s Chandler and Price hand fed Platen press.  

Fishbone Press is a small, independent letterpress and design studio set in the Herefordshire countryside. It has been running since 2013 providing a modern take on old printing techniques. Fishbone Press is the endeavour of Liam Bromage, who uses photopolymer plates (printing plates developed from a digital design) on antique printing presses. Fishbone Press produce bespoke stationary and promotional materials for businesses that want a unique handmade touch, offering a timeless tactile qu

John Christopher has a successful career in graphic design – digitally designing printed matter for many design sectors including publishing, local government, arts, medical education and the environment. He also has a passionate interest in craft processes – work made with the touch of the human hand. The combination of the two has resulted in an interest in typography, lettering and letterpress printing. Throughout his career John has been busy squirreling away type, spacing, presses, sundries

Fontlove Studio is a design and communications studio in Minneapolis, MN operated by Elana Wolowitz Schwartzman. The studio offers letterpress printing for things like business cards, invitations, postcards, calendars, posters, personal stationery or coasters. 

Gaspereau Press was founded in 1997 by Gary Dunfield & Andrew Steeves. It’s books—Smyth-sewn trade paperbacks, cloth-bound hardcovers and letterpress-printed limited edition—are produced in Gaspereau’s own printing works, located in the sleepy shiretown of Kentville, Nova Scotia. The press employs an unusual mixture of techniques & technologies in its book production, ranging from traditional letterpress printing using metal type and photopolymer plates to modern offset lithographic prin

Gilah Press + Design is a multi-disciplinary studio with a focus on branding, packaging and making design tactile through letterpress printing.   

Grafische Manufaktur is a print shop in Linz, Austria, offering letterpress printing, embossing and stamping.