Print Festival 2012

Celebrating traditional and contemporary print process through type and image.

26th to 31st January 2012

Leeds Gallery
York Street, Leeds LS9 8AG

The one-week Leeds Print Festival 2012 at Leeds Gallery has a programme of exhibitions, lectures, workshops, open studios and performances covering all print disciplines. This unique collection of events will deliver a dose of inspiration whilst drawing attention to print and its importance in contemporary design culture.

www.leedsprintfestival.com

A Letterpress Film by Danny Cooke

Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film from Danny Cooke on Vimeo.

Letterpress Workshops from Turnbull Grey

Workshops take place in our studio in Clerkenwell so we allow 3 people per session, there will be 2 people teaching and guiding you through. Sessions will fill up quickly so it will be first come first served. If you have a group of 3 people and a date in mind please let us know and we will see if we can set up a session for you.

£50 including all materials, tea and coffee.

Dates are as follows:
Tuesday 29 November 10am - 1pm
Thursday 1 December 10am - 1pm
Tuesday 6 December 2pm - 5pm
Thursday 8 December 10am - 1pm
Tuesday 13 December 2pm - 5pm
Thursday 15 December 10am - 1pm
Tuesday 20 December 10am - 1pm
Thursday 22 December 2pm - 5pm

To book your place or to find out more please call 020 7608 3324 or email info@turnbullgrey.co.uk
www.turnbullgrey.co.uk

Clever idea!

Makr Box Printing. from Jason Gregory on Vimeo.
Box Printing with custom milled platen. Antique press used to print the Daytona Herald. Printed by Nick Sambrato of Mama's Sauce printing. Filmed and edited by Jonpaul Douglass.
found via Type & Press

Letterpress Exhibition in Denmark

I'm please to have three prints included in this letterpress exhibition wish I could visited but will have to make do with photos from their flickr account, lots more to see here and regularly updated www.flickr.com/photos/symposium2011. 

In the background of the first photo you can just see flowers&fleurons work ‘Tower of Babble’. John was lucky enough to visit the private view, you can see more pictures of his process and pictures of the exhibition soon over on his blog here

The exhibition has been designed and curated by:

Keith Bassford – graphic designer and letterpress printer and Jens Jørgen Hansen – letterpress printer

Letterpress Mexico

Ditoria from typometro on Vimeo.
Thanks to Scott for link to this video, not new but I missed it the first time round via Spiekermann
The music's a little LOUD at the beginning but settles down. Great to see glimpses of book production at a small press!

20 line De Little no.181

http://www.flickr.com/photos/printforloveofwood/6032099508/in/photostream

This has to be one of my favourites in my wood type collection, so was jumping for joy when I managed to acquire all the missing letters and a no.3 to complete the set. At 20 line (approx 84mm) it takes up a lot of room in a case so marked with a white pencil they are now stored ontheir end in a deep drawer but with the ampersand on display!