Production Through Persperation
So it’s been a bit of a slow week with regards to posts on my blog, the reason being I have conversely very busy at Hatch knuckling down and helping out. In my last post I mentioned the sheer scale of Hatch’s level of production, between 500-600 designs are handset...
Preservation Through Production
For a person that doesn’t really care for country music (there I said it, please don’t judge me), Nashville seems like a pretty weird place. My first impression was a little like the first time I went to Camden High Street, except that rather than 15 year old kids...
About Face
The Hamilton Type Museum Type identification for letterpress can be a headache to say the least. When the trade was is it’s heyday the print shop was a bustling hive of organised chaos. Type was housed in labelled drawers, organised by it’s classification and it’s...
Making the Cut
The Hamilton Type Museum As promised last week I thought it was time I did a post getting down to the nitty grtty stuff that Hamilton has been involved in during it’s functioning years. When Hamilton first went into the production of wood type he used a method that...
There Are Rules
The Hamilton Type Museum Day 2, 3, 4 – 28th, 29th & 30th September As I mentioned at the end of last week, my first project while at the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum was to set a poster to be hung in the Print Room to remind students and workshops of the...
A lot of fuss over a linen closet
The Schwartz House 2nd October So after a busy week letterpressing I was ready for some r’n‘r this weekend. What better way to relax than cycling 8 miles to see a beautiful remnant of 1930’s modernist architecture? Situated on the far north end of Two Rivers, in an...
Inky Fingers
The Hamilton Type Museum – Day 2 & 3 – 28th & 29th September The last few days has been swept by in a flurry of wood type, lead and ink. Jumping straight into a project I have been setting some information graphics for the Museums Letterpress Workshops. The...
Hamilton, History and 1.5 Million Little Bits of Wood
The Hamilton Type Museum – Day 1 27th September It begins. I arrived in Two Rivers this morning with a sense of anticipation I don’t think I have felt in my adult life. It was that butterfly stomach, nervous excitement that keeps you up at night like a child trying to...
Impressions Of America – A Letterpress Research Trip
"Live for something, Be not idle. Look about thee for employ. Sit not down to useless dreaming, Labour is the sweetest joy. Folded hands are ever weary. Selfish hearts are never gay. Life for thee, it holds something. So be thee active while you may." The content of...
Folded Hands – Print Video
Live for something, Be not idle. Look about thee for employ. Sit not down to useless dreaming, Labour is the sweetest joy. Folded hands are ever weary. Selfish hearts are never gay. Life for thee, it holds something. So be thee...
