Rachel E Millar is a signwriter, gilder, and lettering artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. She specialises in designing and painting lettering by hand; large or small, interior or exterior, on shop fronts, on walls, and almost any surface. Rachel works somewhere between design, art, and craft, fusing traditional techniques with…
Designed by UK-based graphic design studio Intercity, One Way is a free typeface that marks the beginning of the new year; “an occasion that currently seems more important than ever” says the Intercity team. One Way is “an alphabet created to reflect the changing times that we now find ourselves in”, inspired…
Founded by Ella Rankin, a graphic designer based in Milton Keynes, England, Angel Design Studio‘s practice focuses on typographic posters, inspired by music and the desire to motivate others. Alongside this, Ella also works as a freelance graphic designer, offering branding services, logos, packaging, business cards, and web design. Growing…
La Perruque is a 1×90 centimetre-long typography magazine publishing non-standard type specimens printed on the margins of print shop papers which are often trimmed away from printed matter during the production process. Instead of throwing these bits in the waste bin, founding designer Olivier Bertrand turns them into the world’s…
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…
Daan Rietbergen is an Utrecht based independent graphic designer and artist working on visual identity, poster design, typographic systems, record sleeve design, book design and murals. He studied Graphic Design at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and St. Joost School of Art & Design. After graduating, Daan worked as a…
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,…
Grafik.Editions is a fundraising project geared towards bringing Grafik back as a printed publication. After extensive research with their audience, Grafik are aiming to publish a 256pg bi-annual magazine, alongside relaunching the Grafik website with a full redesign and editorial content. Grafik is a creative platform that features the world’s…
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…
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…
In Perpetuum (Latin for “for ever”) is the latest way to crowdfund, support and bring new, exciting independent publications to life. You can back new projects by pre-ordering the publication, or submit your own project to become a fundraising campaign. With years of experience in the field, and with many…
From positive mottos to live by, to famous quotes, and reinterpretations of the alphabet, we’ve got typographic prints aplenty available from our curated marketplace, Department Store. Check out our top 10 prints that celebrate type below: Elena Etter: Language Is Not TransparentThis screen printed poster is part of Elena Etter’s…
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,…
Our new series meets the people behind some of the design industry’s most inspiring work. To kick things off, we sit down with Brum-based designer and titan of typography Luke Tonge and hear – in his own words – what makes him tick. Luke shares his passion for all-things print with us,…
First published in 1964 by Progresso Grafico, and distributed by G.B. Paravia, Alfa-Beta chronicles the history of writing and type. The book was conceived by Aldo Novarese, a highly influential type designer, as an overview of his in-depth historical study of letterforms and type design. Aldo’s legacy lives on in…
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…
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…
Produced in partnership with Foilco., our very special 56th issue of Posterzine™ features FEMME TYPE; a platform founded by Amber Weaver that celebrates the work of womxn in the type industry. Posterzine is People of Print’s monthly publishing project that takes the form a mini monograph magazine, uniquely folding out to…
Published by Occasional Papers, The Natural Enemies of Books: A Messy History of Women in Printing and Typography is edited by feminist graphic design collective MMS (Maryam Fanni, Matilda Flodmark and Sara Kaaman). As a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, which brought together contributions…