As a huge fan of professional cycle racing Phil Gambrill of letterpress studio Fresh Lemon Print decided to create a large format poster celebrating the Tour de Frances’ greatest Hors Categorie (beyond categorisation) climbs. These gruelling mountain stages define the historic road race and the overall best climber gets to…
Based in Ypsilanti, MI USA, Ingrid Ankerson is an educator in graphic design at a nearby community college, as well as a practising graphic designer, illustrator, and letterpress printer. She enjoys exploring the potential of typography through repetition and subtle movement of small metal type on the bed of her…
Phil Gambrill of letterpress studio Fresh Lemon Print was recently invited to undertake the letterpress artist in residence position at North Metropolitan TAFE in the heart of Perth’s CBD. At the residency he explored many typographic shapes within their extensive wood type collection and ended up focusing on the ampersand…
Papillon Press is Madeleine and Vernon Wiering, a father/daughter printmaking team. The duo call themselves “design archaeologists” as they dig through the past to find designs and decorated papers to resurrect, reproducing and reimagining these often hidden examples of beauty. Vernon was a bookbinder for over 20 years before starting Papillon…
Mary Bruno of Minnesota-based letterpress print shop Bruno Press recently collaborated with her pal, Richard Bresnehan, a world renowned potter, on an exciting project that combines sculpture with letterpress. Richard, who also teaches at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, was tasked with creating a new sculpture garden on the…
Sarah McCoy is the owner and operator of The Permanent Collection Letterpress + Design Studio, located in the Des Moines, Iowa. She designs and prints all of her artwork and letterpress printed work on her vintage printing presses. Sarah received an M.A. 2003 and M.F.A. 2005 from The University of…
Over the past year, letterpress printmaker and designer, Dafi Kuhne, has been working on a project called The Absurdity of the Moment; a series of 10 large (70x100cm) letterpress printed posters. The posters have all been produced from hand-cut linoleum and hot metal type, and printed in up to 10…
The Japan Series is the latest set of letterpress goodies from Manchester-based Dotto Studio. Created during lockdown by Dotto founder and designer Dani Molyneux, the series offers an escape reminiscent of a beautiful trip to Japan, with a focus on moments and memories. Featuring four places: Kyoto Rain, Tokyo Lights,…
Clément Cases is a French Graphic designer, type-lover, and collector of graphic objet. He studied Graphic Design at the ISCID of Montauban in the south of France, where he graduated with a masters degree. During his schooling, Clément was able to hone his curiosity about the world of printing, to…
Illustrator Danilo Mondino, part of the Archivio Tipografico team, is experimenting with a new series of letterpress prints. In the series, Danilo obtains the matrices by manually working on the printing surface by carving linoleum or cutting a 1mm thick PVC sheet, which he then overprints to create figures and…
Flycatcher Press is a printmaking and letterpress studio run by Phoebe Todd-Parrish in Toronto, Canada. Phoebe became interested in printmaking during her undergraduate studies, when she took her first course in traditional stone lithography at York University (Canada). Quick to take every other print class available to her, she found…
Mayday Press is run by May Sorum, a graduate from the University of Washington with a BFA in Visual Communication Design. After graduation, May worked as a Designer in a variety of prominent Seattle design firms until moving to Southwest Wisconsin. “In Madison, I found myself adrift creatively” says May.…
Ane Thon is a Graphic Designer and Artist living and working in Oslo. She owns a private letterpress studio where she explores the wondrous possibilities of experimental printing with moveable type. Ane has a particular interest in women in print, private presses, conceptual letterpress, and hybrid practices. On Being Ill…
Join the fight against typographic pollution with Dafi Kühne‘s 2021 Typographic Summer Program. The program is an intense 2 week course taking place in Switzerland for international graphic design students and professionals. The project was initiated in 2016 by Dafi as he “…felt the need for a short intense workshop…
French illustration and printmaking duo Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller invite us to explore their universe of prints that not only champion originality but also leave viewers to interpret what they see and decipher the hidden complexities of the seemingly innocent illustrations. United by their love for drawing and printmaking,…
Tom Boulton‘s aim is simple; to get as many people as possible, hands on and printing. It is for this reason he has designed and made a new printing press, the F-Press, which has been launched on Crowdfunder. Covid changed everything for a lot of people in the creative industry,…
Turboblock Nr. 8 is a letterpress printed exhibition poster by graphic designer and letterpress printmaker Dafi Kühne. The project examines and interpolates the two most produced chairs of all time; the Thonet bentwood chair, and the Monobloc chair. The Thonet bentwood chair was the most produced chair worldwide before the…
The Dafi Kühne Printing Show is a series of free educational letterpress printing videos by poster designer, educator, and letterpress printer Dafi Kühne. Hot off the press, Dafi shares his most secret printing recipes so that you can start cooking up your own letterpress prints! Between 2018 and 2020 Dafi…
The second publication fresh from Prelo Prints’ press is based on Dracole Waida, a pamphlet first published in Nüremberg in 1488. The booklet presents Vlad III’s, Voivode of Wallachia, various crimes prior to his death, and was used as a propaganda instrument. The popularity of the work is proven by…
Our new series meets the people behind some of the industry’s most inspiring work. This week, typograph.Her mastermind Nicole Phillips on her creative influences, the future of typography, and her all-important favourite font… I’ve loved books and print from an early age. My dad and uncle both worked in the…