The Print Project

A bit of fun on a Saturday afternoon

Adana, carrying printing presses up four flights of stairs, DIY, Gill Sans Bold Condensed, Platen, Printing, self-publishing, Univers, workshops

No Comments


Share this post

We don’t often run workshops, but when we do it’s great to see what people do when they run unfettered with the type. At our most recent workshop at the world famous 1 in 12 club, participants used our collection of 48 point type to print cards with slogans of their own choosing.

Besides the cards, there was a bit of unrestrained off-message creativity in effect. One participant used children’s colouring books, splodges of ink, and torn-up newspaper to create layers of colour and type upon type. It was great to see.

We are of course overjoyed to welcome a new member to the collective. We believe his having four paws will be a tremendous asset when it comes to typesetting and printing.

Read more

Ante – what we got up to

Adana, DIY, Exhibitions, Gill Sans Bold Condensed, Letterpress, Univers, workshops

No Comments


Share this post

With amazing timeliness, we bring you this post about Ante Art, and what we got up to while we were there.

Ante-art was a 100% DIY arts fair, taking place in Shipley Kirkgate Market over two days of the May Day weekend. It featured exhibits by artists and collectives such as Black Dogs, Bristow & Lloyd, Knit a Bear Face, and the Caged Bird Club, among many others. The exhibition ran all weekend, with a book fair on the Saturday, and an ‘art factory’ on the Sunday.

The art factory included an “Idiot’s Lowbrow Print Workshop” and “Knitting Takes Guts“, as well as a letterpress workshop.

Participants were invited to add, typeset and print a word to go into a collaborative sentence. Here’s how that turned out.

Read more

Forme Friday: Cops & Robbers

DIY, Forme Friday, Letterpress, Process, Univers

No Comments


Share this post

This weeks Forme Friday “knit jumper” couldn’t be more appropriate for this time of year when a high proportion of people will be sporting some hideous whacky ‘seasonal’ knitwear.

This forme was part of the work we did for the October 2011 issue of Cops & Robbers.

Read more