Monday, 22 July 2024
Modern Poetry in Translation 2024
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Colorset has 37 shades
For those of you not familiar with Colorset, it is our range of coloured text and cover papers which is 100% recycled and more competitively priced than some other well known brands of coloured paper!
Monday, 8 July 2024
Have bike (& printing press) will travel!
As Printweek reports...
Cycling printer Nick Hand will return to the road for a new tour of the UK on his custom-built letterpress bicycle. Armed with an Adana 8x5 letterpress affixed to his custom-frame bike, Hand will make three cycling tours to visit public libraries throughout the UK.
At each library, Hand will print bespoke bookmarks that celebrate each library, and famous figures who used them.
Now 67, he is an experienced hand at touring the Adana press, having pedalled his press-bike hybrid all the way to printing progenitor Gutenburg’s birthplace in Mainz, Germany in 2014; from Land’s End to John O’Groats in 2017; and most recently around festivals throughout the UK in 2022...
You can read the full Printweek article HERE.
https://www.departmentofsmallworks.co.uk/
Posted by Justin Hobson 08.07.2024
Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Jobs from the past - Number 176
Regular followers of this blog will know that my first post of every month is a "job from the past" so that I can show some of the really good work from years gone by - this project is from eleven years ago.
...for interest, here is a close-up of the duplexed invitation which is around 1mm thick:
The invitation is printed in one colour (blue) on the reverse and the name DOIG is hot foil blocked in matt white foil. Omnia foils beautifully as it has a high bulk and flattens out leaving the foiled type, smooth and slightly de-bossed.
You can find out more about the exhibition here: https://youtu.be/_IKe529_2kM
Design and Art direction is by Freytag Anderson, a Glasgow based studio run by creative partners Daniel Freytag and Greig Anderson.
Printing is by J. Thompson Colour Printers in Glasgow
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/
https://www.freytaganderson.com/
Friday, 28 June 2024
Just a little walking log...
Friday, 21 June 2024
Print by Veronica Ditting in Japan
Image courtesy of Veronica Ditting |
Image courtesy of Veronica Ditting |