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Printing Historical Society Prize for New Scholarship
Riccardo Sartori posted a news entry in Typography Weekly #124
A competition for a new article on any printing-historical subject, suitable for the The Printing Historical Society Journal. The winner will receive the prize for that year, a purse of £500, membership of the Society for one year, and publication in the PHS Journal. The competition is open to all, but those new to the subject are particularly encouraged to take part. -
MATS is a Working Printing Museum in Sibiu, Romania, that shares the tools and skills to showcase and teach letterpress printing techniques. -
The emergence of photographic typesetting in the 1960s expanded typographic creativity and production. The classic font libraries of Monotype, Linotype, Ludlow and others were transferred to film—badly in most cases. The advent of the digital imagesetter and PostScript saw an explosion of new and derivative typefaces. Romano’s talk covers the technologies, libraries, and luminaries of the phototypesetting era.-
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“The Monotype Electro Display Matrix [was] developed by the Monotype Company in the early 1900s to cast large multiples of individual pieces of type. The funds raised by the campaign cover the cost of producing an accurate 3D model of a single matrix, suitable for 3D output, and making 3D prints to fulfil campaign rewards.” -
Yesterday Creative Letterpress
Ralf Herrmann posted a directory entry in Artisanal workshops & studios
Yesterday Creative is a letterpress studio in Geebung, Australia. They produce letterpress products like wedding invitations and event stationery.-
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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. -
Letterink Letterpress Design Studio
Ralf Herrmann posted a directory entry in Artisanal workshops & studios
Letterink is a letterpress studio in Milan, Italy. Isabella and Alice offer the design and print of items such as wedding invitations, stationary, greeting cards, business cards and so on. -
Hungry Workshop is a design studio and letterpress print shop in Northcote, Australia. -
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. -
Rohner Press offers a variety of print production services including letterpress printing, engraving, foil stamping, embossing, die cutting, and paper converting. Founded by second generation printer Bruno Rohner, the company has remained committed to traditional print techniques. -
Typesettingsg is a traditional letterpress studio in Singapore. They also conduct typesetting workshops and letterpress design talks. -
Panthera Press offers custom print design, branding, illustrations, books, and stationery. Panthera Press began in 2010 as a passion project for Danielle Wethington as she completed an internship in Massachusetts with book illustrator and pressman Barry Moser. After completing her internship and a subsequent Masters with a focus on Graphic Design/Book Arts, Danielle moved back to her hometown in Virginia and started up a proper printshop. Panthera Press began taking commercial work in 2012 and has been growing ever since. -
Inclosed Letterpress Co. is a letterpress and paper goods shop located in the heart of the Midwest of the USA. Inspired by her parents entrepreneurial spirit and inheriting her dad’s love for design and printing, Lesley Pick created Inclosed in 2006. -
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. -
Pracownia PanBonTon is a letterpress studio in Bielsko-Biała, a city in the south of Poland. They print business cards, stationary, invitations, coasters, postscards and so on. -
Tiny Dog Press prints announcements, invitations and cards on either a Vandercock proofing press or a Chandler & Price (C&P) platen press. The studio is run by Kari Miller—Texas native with a deep love of printing, color, and urban farming. After acquiring a BFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in printmaking from Baylor University, Kari set her sights on having her own creative based business. It took a bit of time and some trial and error, but in March of 2013 Tiny Dog Press became a reality. -
Mr Smith’s Letterpress Workshop
Ralf Herrmann posted a directory entry in Artisanal workshops & studios
Mr Smith’s Letterpress Workshop in is run by Kelvyn Laurence Smith—a craftsman, designer, typographer, and printmaker. He creates exquisitely crafted contemporary typographic printed matter using wood & metal type in his Letterpress workshop. The workshop also offers letterpress classes. -
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. -
The Chatty Press is a bespoke design studio based on the north shore of Massachusetts, serving clients from Boston, New Hampshire, Maine and across the world. Jen Pepper’s specialty is wedding invitations, and event stationery. -
Starting a printing studio has been the dream of Kate Murray since studying printmaking at Pratt Institute, where she received her BFA. After completing college and post graduate work in printmaking, she has been working in professional and commercial letterpress shops in New York City, honing her craft. When the opportunity came up to salvage and restore two presses, Quick Brown Fox was born. The design and all of the printing is done in the industrial neighborhood of Gowanus in Brooklyn, New York. Each card is printed one at a time, one color at a time, on a late 19th Century and an early 20th century letterpress. The shop is equipped with a Chandler and Price tabletop press as well as a Golding Jobber and a small foil stamping machine. Quick Brown Fox is available for custom design and printing services. -
Atelier-Musée Imprimerie (AMI) is a large printing museum in Malesherbes, 70 kilometers South of Paris. Created by Jean-Paul and Chantal Maury it offers 5,000 square meters of exhibition space including workshops where visitors can make paper or learn the arts and crafts of paper marbling, type composition, printing and bookbinding. The 700 objects on display include 150 machines. -
Woodside Press is a traditional letterpress printing studio located in New York City's historic Brooklyn Navy Yard. They create printed items for individual, business, and institutional clients. To the graphic-design community they offer typesetting and type-reproduction services, and they are also New York City's leading facility for hot-metal typography, with Linotype and Ludlow typecasting machines and an impressive range of classic and decorative typefaces. Woodside Press began in 1993 in Woodside, Queens, and moved in 1998 to their current home, with a spectacular view of the Manhattan skyline, in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. They have built a collection of late 19th and 20th century printing type, including foundry type to set by hand, a huge variety of wooden type for posters and headlines, and an array of Linotype and Ludlow hot-metal typefaces. -
Indiepop Press is a letterpress print shop in North Wales run by Lisa Harman. It was born from a desire that she had to create designs, prints and stationery using a more tactile, robust and raw median. She undertook a year long course under the tuition of the fine artist Elizabeth Willow. Most of Lisa Harman’s work is created using metal or wooden type and ornaments on our antique presses, turning what was once and industry into an art form; but she also enjoy experimenting with polymer plates and other materials to create unique and tailored pieces. The desire to share this art form with others has lead to the creation of a not for profit, open access letterpress studio in North Wales called ffowndri. -
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 are interested. -
The Tilbury Press is a private press located near the Pacific Ocean in Bondi, Australia. They produce posters and prints using inks that are hand mixed, on presses that are hand operated. Unlike digital artwork which can be infinitely manipulated, letterpress is about working with and exploiting the limited resources at hand. Armed with sometimes incomplete, battered and mismatching fonts the goal is to produce a fresh piece of typographic communication — beautifully.
