Our friends Mitsu and Aya (veteran LPW participants) are hosting a wonderful exhibition in their Kuroiso location: Letterpress Workers Letterpress artists around the world, People fascinated by type and ink The main focus is on 2024 and 2025, but the exhibition also shows prints from 2019 to 2023 and several LPW publications. Continue reading at Letterpress Workers.
Anyone who is lucky enough to own type and a printing press by default is a custodian of the heritage of letterpress printing, and in turn holds artefacts which have helped inform the evolution of communication. Continue reading at Letterpress Workers.
Recipe for a 24 cm cake tin approx. Pasta frolla (shortcrust pastry): 90 g butter 45 g margarine 1 zested orange peel 270 g flour 115 g sugar 4 egg yolks 1 tbs port/marsala or sweet wine (optional) Filling: 140 g jam or marmalade 1 tbs rum 1 tsp cocoa powder Tip: Keep the butter and margarine out of the fridge for a while so they will be easier to work with. Continue reading at Letterpress…
The first quarter of the twentieth century witnessed an artistic revolution without equal in the history of art. Looking specifically at the works generated in the few years leading up to the First World War, the principles of modern art, architecture and design then established impact upon the manner in which we experience, approach and live our lives today. Continue reading at Letterpress…
Wood type has always had its own appeal in the world of letterpress printing. Unfortunately, there are hardly any publications on German wood type. Source Continue reading at Letterpress Workers.
Almost three years after the TIPO meeting took place in the Azores islands, after a pandemic and several setbacks, the book about the meeting was finally published. An edition to remember the first meeting, in 2019, until the second one takes place. Continue reading at Letterpress Workers.