Alan Kitching's A-Z of Letterpress

Yesterday evening I was fortunate to be invited to the book launch of Alan Kitching's A-Z of Letterpress. This new book showcases Alan's extensive wood-letter fount collection that he has collected over the decades and which also celebrates the 25th anniversary of The Typography Workshop.

The book is a collaboration between Kitching and Angus Hyland and the book launch was held at Pentagram. Having devised a page layout together, Alan then set the entire book, printing an original in letterpress at The Typography Workshop, which was then used as artwork to produce the book (which was litho printed in China).

After an introduction by Laurence King, the publisher of the book, Alan gave a brief insight into the project which remarkably took less than a year to complete.

Alan Kitching, Angus Hyland and Laurence King

The hardback book boasts 1352 pieces of type and has 272 pages. Size is 196x152 mm

Images courtesy of Pentagram

You can read more about the book here:
http://new.pentagram.com/2015/04/new-work-alan-kitchings-a-z-of-letterpress/

Thank you to Pentagram and Alan Kitching for inviting me. It was a lovely evening with the usual friendly nature and good hospitality found at Pentagram.

Posted by Justin Hobson 23.04.2015