Lets mix some ink and print something with love
For the girls
& the guys
Who’s Your Type?
‘Just My Type’ A short film (48secs) showing the process of making a letterpress card.
Pressing Matters Magazine Launch
I was thrilled to be involved with Pressing Matters magazine launch last week at The Forge, Bristol. The first issue is now available and packed with informative articles and gorgeous photography dedicated to printmaking. I love reading about other artists so it was lovely to have an insight into other printmaker's approaches to their work. I especially loved the article about Nick Hand (founder of The Letterpress Collective) and Robin Mather’s journey on The Printing Bike. They rode from Bristol to Mainz in Germany to visit the Gutenburg Print Museum. Nick cycled a bike custom built by Robin to carry an adana press on the back and a box at the front for type and paper.
Other great articles in the magazine cover the art of letterpress, linocut, collagraph, etching, screenprint, wood engraving, stencil art and risograph and an interesting reflection by Ben Goodman on the parallels between engraving and human existence.
In the lead up to the magazine launch I prepared some postcards using an old gramophone plate which I had bought in an antique shop in Bristol. John Coe, founder of Pressing Matters and creative director at coecreative carved his Pressing Matters logo into lino and we set it up on my adana 8 x 5 press for people to print onto the postcards. We put out some card for bookmarks too and the press had its work cut out for the rest of the evening!
Printing the Gramophone
Gramophone, locked in the chase, inked up, put in the press and printed on postcards ready to take to Pressing Matters magazine launch.
Printing Pressing Matters on the Adana 8 x 5
Printing Pressing Matters postcards and bookmarks on the adana 8 x 5 printing press and hand carved rubber-stamp at The Forge, Bristol
Pressing Matters Postcards
Printing Pressing Matters on postcards with Gramophone and date typeset in Univers 24pt on the adana 8 x 5 printing press.
Pressing Matters @ The Forge
People printing Pressing Matters on the Adana 8 x 5 printing press at The Forge Bristol.
Pressing Matters Bookmarks
Printing Pressing Matters bookmarks with a hand carved rubberstamp print of the adana 8 x 5 printing press. John Coe’s first issue of Pressing Matters Magazine.
South Bank Arts Trail - free printing demos @ El Rincon Spanish Bar
Eightfivepress printing demos
Discover the wonderful world of traditional letterpress printing
As part of the Southbank Arts Trail, Bristol I’ll be heading over to El Rincon Spanish Bar with my adana 8 x 5. I’ll be giving free demos on how to set type on the 1950’s table top printing press and there'll be some printed goodies to take away on the day! : ))
"PRINT, v.t. to impress, to imprint; to mark by pressure; to fix deeply, as in the memory; to stamp with coloured patterns. v.i. to practice the art of typography; to prepare and publish a book. n.a. mark made by impression; printed letters; the impression of types; a printed fabric, an engraving. n. Print’er." from Rapid Printing Made Easy - a Handbook for Users of the New Adana High Speed Printing Machine.
Saturday 14th May 12-4pm
El Rincon Spanish Bar
298 North Street
Bristol
BS3 1JU
Hot off the 8 x 5 press!
Enjoying printing on my Adana 8x 5 again. It’s been a while as the last few months I’ve spent most of my energy developing my new website. So with a new website I thought it was time to make some freshly printed business cards.
eightfivepress - woodblock letterpress linocut
Typeset with Univers lead type. Printed with grey /blue linseed oil based ink.
I printed these while listening to the wonderful Debbie Millman (designmatters) in conversation with writer and adventurer Caroline Paul.
"Debbie Millman is a is a writer, educator, artist, brand consultant and host of the radio show Design Matters”.
Debbie interviews artists, writers, educators, designers, musicians, poets, film makers, bloggers including Seth Godin, Alain de Botton, Eileen Myles, Tim Ferriss, Alison Bechdel, Krista Tippett, Maira Kalman, Oliver Jeffers, and many many more.
"And remember, we can talk about making a difference, we can make a difference, or we can do both." — Debbie Millman
Laurie & David Wedding Invitations - Part 1
Last year I printed wedding invitations for Laurie and David. I filmed the process of printing the invitations on the Adana 8 x 5 platen press using lead type for the cover. The inside was printed with a polymer plate.
This short film (3m16s) shows part 1 of the printing process - printing the cover using vermilion ink on 100% recycled card.
I hope you enjoy it!
Typesetting & Printing on the Adana 8 x 5
Printed and filmed by eightfivepress
Music ‘Daylight Ends’ by Snails © 2017