All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one winner will be randomly drawn. To enter the prize draw, all you need to do is identify the typeface shown below and  email your answer to me.

Congratulations to the winners of this week’s competition, Quinton Bruton & Matt Rowe, who correctly identified the typeface as Huxley Vertical. This typeface was designed by Walter Huxley and introduced by American Typefounders in 1935.

The prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my  Typoretum website. All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one winner will be randomly drawn. To enter the prize draw, all you need to do is identify the typeface shown below and  email your answer to me.

Congratulations to the winner of this week’s competition, Andy English, who correctly identified the typeface as Albertus. This typeface was designed by Berthold Wolpe and introduced by Monotype between 1932-40.

“Established in 1986, New North Press is an artisan letterpress print studio based in London. We have a substantial library of type, both wooden and metal, which we set by hand and print on Albion presses. The components and technique of this method of printing have remained unchanged for over a century so we are very proud to be able to keep this beautiful process alive.”

The New North Press

Welcome to the eighteenth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my  Typoretum website.

All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one winner will be randomly drawn. To enter the prize draw, all you need to do is identify the typeface shown below and  email your answer to me.

Congratulations to the winner of this week’s competition, Rob Sawkins, who correctly identified the typeface as Bernhard Fashion. This typeface was designed by Lucian Bernhard and introduced by American Typefounders in 1929. Subsequently, matrices of Bernhard Fashion were also available for the casting on the Intertype system.

]]> http://blog.typoretum.co.uk/2009/09/30/%e2%80%98what-face-wednesday%e2%80%99-no-18/feed/ 0 http://blog.typoretum.co.uk/2009/09/25/greengaged-2009-%e2%80%98crafting-mass-production%e2%80%99-letterpress-workshop/ http://blog.typoretum.co.uk/2009/09/25/greengaged-2009-%e2%80%98crafting-mass-production%e2%80%99-letterpress-workshop/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:02:54 +0000 Justin Knopp http://blog.typoretum.co.uk/?p=609 On 24th September, six designers participated in a letterpress workshop for Greengaged 2009, contributing to the discussion of ‘Crafting Mass Production’. The workshop was delivered by  Workshop – a London based design co-operative specialising in letterpress and print and founded by James Allen, Alexander Cooper, Rose Gridneff and Elliot Hammer.

Photographs of day four of Greengaged 2009, themed ‘Crafting Mass Production’, can be viewed on the  Greengaged Flickr site and more information is available on the  Greengaged website.

Greengaged is a not for profit organisation founded in 2008 by Sophie Thomas from thomas.matthews, Sarah Johnson from Re Design and Anne Chick from The Sustainable Design Research Centre at Kingston University.

Greengaged aims to advance the design industry’s capacity to respond positively to key environmental challenges such as climate change. This is done by offering thought leadership, creating spaces for dialogue, and opportunities for knowledge sharing – within the industry and beyond.

By way of explanation for his creation of  The Movie Title Stills Collection, Christian explains: “I’ve seen a lot of movies over the years, and to prove I’ve sat through at least the first ten minutes of them I started making screenshots of the titles. Then my computer crashed and I almost lost them all. To save them for future generations I created this little website.”

All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one winner will be randomly drawn. To enter the prize draw, all you need to do is identify the typeface shown below and  email your answer to me.

Congratulations to the winner of this week’s competition, Mike Edwards, who correctly identified the typeface as Saxon Black. This typeface was introduced by the Sheffield typefounders’ Stephenson, Blake & Co. in 1884 and the punches were cut by Rochaix.

One of the ‘Daft Robots’ created from letterpress ornaments, by Mike Edwards

The title of ‘Daft Robots’

The 51st bundle of the  Letterpress Exchange Group (LEG) arrived recently and, as always, the package contained a wonderfully eclectic collection of beautifully executed letterpress work. With great difficulty, I have selected my favourite pieces from the August bundle and have posted them here, for your enjoyment.

Mike Edwards contributed a booklet that features a collection of ‘daft robots’ made from typographical ornaments and border pieces. Simon Smallwood’s reproduction of a breakfast ticket pays incredible attention to detail and the Caslon types were loaned by John Randle of The Whittington Press. The original ticket can be viewed  here.

Helen Ingham’s poster formed part of a series of protests against job cuts at the Sir John Cass Dep’t of Art Media and Design at London Metropolitan University. It is an adaptation of a poster that originally appeared in the Paris student revolution in 1968 (the original featured General Degaulle gagging a student, while Helen’s poster featured their head of department!).

John Cornellisse and his computer-controlled Monotype Caster have been busy casting type for a letterpress printed edition of Le Grain de Sable by August Michel Benoit Gaudichot. John is to present the completed book at the annual meeting of the  Multatuli-Society in the library of the University of Amsterdam on 7th November.

Andrew Dolinski contributed a sample sheet of Poltawski that was published, along with his article on the typeface, in Matrix 28.

For more information about LEG, or membership enquiries, contact Alan Brignull at  alan.98@virgin.net. Currently, there is a small waiting list for membership.

Reproduction charity breakfast ticket by Simon Smallwood

Woodletter and linocut protest poster by Helen Ingham

Detail of John Cornelisses’s Monotype-set edition of Le Grain de Sable

A complex arrangement of letterpress ornaments by Alan Brignull at the Hedgehog Press

A sonnet, hand-set in Garamond Italic, by Graham Moss at the Incline Press

Woodletter cover for a reprint of George Borrow’s ‘Wild Wales’ by Peter Criddle at the Ericius Press

Type specimen of Antykwa Póltawskiego by Andrew Dolinski

Woodletter protest poster by Richard Lawrence

The Whittington Press will also be holding its annual open day and several other private presses, a marbler, a typefounder, a bookseller and a paper merchant will also be showing their wares.  The Whittington Press will be showing off its latest publications.

40th Whittington Summer Show poster with hand stencilled illustrations by Miriam Macgregor