Headed by Shunsuke Ikai, Albatro Design is a multi functional design agency based in Tokyo. Using both digital and analogue techniques, they create new values from diversified perspectives. As well as producing specimen plants and potteries, they also exhibit experimental print works that explore the relationship between design and print,…
Letterpress printer, digital designer, and letterpress equipment mechanic, Cory Wasnewsky, is the face behind Three Cheers Press. In his off hours after working his day job at Hatch Show Print, Cory creates posters for musicians, events, and businesses, as well as the occasional business card, wedding invite, and birth announcement. He…
In a year dominated by the ins and outs of a global pandemic (pangolins, 5G, Dominic Cummings’ eyesight, government-mandated-no-missionary positions, and so on and so forth), it’s pretty easy to forget that all the other Big News items haven’t conveniently sidled off behind flimsy blue masks and resolved themselves. Yup,…
This month People of Print are proud to present a selection of block printing projects from the talented members of our community. From reinterpretations of the alphabet, to political artworks and lockdown diaries, our members have brought a variety of projects to life through the carving of wood and lino…
Letterpress artist Phil Gambrill of Fresh Lemon Print is driven by his desire to experiment with type and ink. His posters are large format typographic experiments, born from printing woodblock type over multiple layers of inked backgrounds. However, his experimentation doesn’t stop after he has completed a print run. “One…
Run and operated by Taylor Cox, Coxswain Press is a small letterpress printing and book arts studio located in the Pacific Northwest. With a focus on limited edition art prints, greeting cards, and artist books, each item is thoughtfully crafted by hand. Taylor’s collection of limited edition block prints are…
People of Print are excited to present a list of our top 50 letterpress printers, studios and artists. Including typographic studios, bespoke stationery printers, and some of our very own Official POP Members, we’ve compiled some of our favourite letterpress artists who are bringing and maintaining the heritage craft of…
Play It Fuckin’ Loud is a brand new print responding to a brief about protest produced by Dave Darcy of Dublin-based letterpress print studio, One Strong Arm. The three colour print combines letterpress and linocut techniques, and is inspired by one of the most famous exchanges in Rock ‘n’ Roll…
Fireater is a letterpress studio based in an 18th century forge in rural Leicestershire. The studio was founded by Matt Leach, who has been collecting and establishing his collection of type for many years. The studio produces small edition wood type poster prints, business stationery, and wedding suites, and also…
Once again, we’re proud to present a selection of projects from members of our Official POP community. This month we’re excited to showcase 13 letterpress print projects, including reinventions of Virginia Woolf’s words, typographic posters of mottos to live by, and prints inspired by the uncertain times we’re living in.…
Kyle Hawley is the founder and creative director of Letterpress PLAY; a letterpress design and print studio based in the heart of the Lone Star State, Austin, Texas. The team make zero-waste paper toys, cards, posters, and garments on beautiful, antique presses or block printed by hand. Kyle earned a…
Founded by Phil Gambrill, Fresh Lemon Print is a typographic and letterpress studio located in Perth, Australia. Phil creates funky limited edition posters using traditional printing techniques. By day, he is an award-winning graphic designer, and by night, he turns back the clock and enters his letterpress studio to set…
Prelo Prints is a project born from a love for letterpress and all forms of early print. Predominantly focusing on 15th-century printing techniques and materials, using their wooden one-pull press (an interpretation of what a late 15th-century printing press might have looked and worked) they print reproductions of incunables, broadsides,…
Ane Thon Knutsen is an artist and graphic designer living and working in Oslo. She was educated with a BA (2010), MA (2012) and PhD (2019) in Graphic Design from The Oslo National Academy of The Arts. For the last ten years, Ane has worked as a freelance graphic designer,…
Matt Holmes is a designer maker, whose work explores the point where digital technologies and heritage crafts collide. His practice currently revolves around printing presses, and the craft behind the history of letterpress. Matt employs 3D printing and CNC to build his own printing presses, printed typefaces and printing plates,…
Shoulder to Shoulder Stronger Together is a new letterpress print by TypographHer, created for the Printmakers Against Racism global virtual art sale to support the fight against systemic racial injustice. TypographHer, aka Nicole Arnett Phillips, is a letterpress printer who works from her studio in New Zealand on publishing, typographic and…
Julia Humfress, founder of Word Words, began her printmaking journey whilst studying Graphic Design at The London College of Printing (University of the Arts). After graduating, Julia went on to work as a designer and art director for Harrods of Knightsbridge and Condé Nast Publications, and also as a freelancer…
No Plan Press’ Takoma Park print series stemmed from the desire of the studio’s founder, Jesse Kirsch, to continue printing and designing during this crisis. The 3-part print series includes Roscoe the Rooster, Azalea City, and Takoma Park Together, all inspired by the city Jesse calls home. All proceeds from the sales…
TypographHer, aka Nicole Arnett Phillips, is a letterpress printer with over 20 years experience in design. From her studio in New Zealand, Nicole also works across lino, woodcut, polymer, etchings, transfer, screenprint, riso and monoprint, creating artist books and ephemera about design, politics, and the environment. After studying an undergrad in Graphic…
Georgina Estill runs a small-scale traditional letterpress printing studio in North East Yorkshire, working with a combination of historic craftsmanship and contemporary design to keep the typographic art-form alive. Given our current Information Age, it’s widely believed that the printed word holds a higher value than its digital counterpart. Letterpress…