Bradford Industrial Museum

An introduction to the Bradford printing industry from Charlotte Taylor on Vimeo.

On my to visit list is the printing section of the Bradford Industrial Museum
Not too far from me and the cars and steam engines should keep the boys happy while this gal goes and talks to some old school printers who are available every Wednesday 10.30 - 3.30pm.
Thanks to the guys over at the print project for the heads up on this video by Charlotte Taylor

Wayzgooze

Here's an opportunity to get your hands inky at the Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre in West Sussex.

They are also hoping to have a Monotype Composition Caster up and running.

To see a list of machinery in the exhibit view here

For direction and opening times please see www.amberleymuseum.co.uk

Pictures copyright of Glen Morgan UK on Flickr

The Print Workshop provides a display of printing machinery and artefacts.

Most of the Print Workshop’s exhibits are operational and in use throughout the season.

Laser cut wood type

An Exhibtion by Justin Knopp of Typoretum together with Imagesurgery at The Gallery, Church Walk, Colchester – 6th May to June 18th 2011.

Along with hand-typeset Granby Light (Stephenson Blake), Prisma, Castellar, Gill Sans Titling & Gill Floriated are laser-cut blocks of wood type.

You can more images of the laser cut proto type here on Typorteum's Flickr set

St. Bride Library Event

Letterpress: Forward thinking

Friday 19 November 2010

One-day letterpress conference

Join us for a day packed with talks, demonstrations and discussion celebrating new ideas and practice in handset typography.

Letterpress, we were once told, was a thing of the past. Yet, now letterpress is very clearly the focus of renewed enthusiasm. Interest in setting types by hand continues to grow, with an increase in letterpress activity further fuelled by an ongoing concern with visual authenticity. For many, letterpress offers something beyond straightforward graphic reproduction. It offers the means to create hand-made objects of worth.

But to what extent are we still looking backwards rather than forwards when we consider our expectations of letterpress? Much contemporary practice certainly seems to have settled into something of a retro-groove. In the midst of all the nostalgia though, there are people who offer alternatives to this potential dead-end, reinventing their practices and working in more exploratory ways.

Our speakers will share with us their excitement at the possibilities before us. Together we can discover what is genuinely new in letterpress thinking across areas such as education, design, printing practice and mechanical futures. Having begun to find out what innovation in letterpress might mean, the challenge will be for each of us to then consider how we might creatively respond.

For more details click here

Printer's Wayzgoose

Photo from Alan at the Hedgehog Press

Unfortunately for me this is a 4 hour drive away but if anyone pays a visit do take some photos and post a link in the comments below