One of my childhood friends has opened up a letterpress studio in Cincinnati, called Steam Whistle. If you live remotely near there, you should probably give them a visit.
Here’s a video interview about the press, with Brian Stuparyk.
Tag: letterpress
More on LEGO letterpress
Lego Letterpress And Other New Takes On A Classic Toy. An NPR article about the LEGO letterpress prints by Sam Cox and Justin LaRosa that I wrote about a few months ago.
Reverting to Type exhibition
The Standpoint Gallery in London is having a letterpress exhibition during the next month or so. The exhibit, curated by Graham Bignell of New North Press and Richard Ardagh, will showcase how the printing technique is being reinvented for modern times.
Reverting to Type aims to highlight the pioneers at the helm of the current resurgence of interest in letterpress; from computer-based designers with a desire to ply a craft with a tactile immediacy that has been lost with moderntechnology, to traditional presses finding a new way to revitalise their design output.
This is definitely on the list of things to do during my last couple of weeks in England. See this pdf release for more details about the show, including the final list of contributors.
Lego Letterpress
Combining LEGO and letterpress printing is an awesome idea. Prints are available from Physical Fiction, a collaborative effort between Samuel Cox and Justin LaRosa.
Pictorial Webster’s
Pictorial Webster’s features over four hundred original woodcut and copper engravings from 19th century editions of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The fine press edition features a letterpress interior, leather binding and a hand-tooled cover. A trade edition of the book is now available from Chronicle Books.
This video offers a behind-the-scenes peek at the making of the book. You get a good sense of what’s involved with production and the amount of effort that goes into it.
Briar Press
Briar Press, a letterpress community. “Proudly introducing the bleeding-edge world of personalized desktop publishing circa 1820.”