Month: October 2011

Google’s version of Halloween! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Theory notes!

Historical shifts in means of production History’s form of production has developed through time dramatically, in steps from; Writing Printing (wood/engraving) Moveable type (Gutenberg) Lithography Photography Fax and photocopying Computer And then digital printing. Change in the means of distribution and reception; The first mechanically produced book was 1440. Printing press (newspapers) 1605 in Germany. […]

Possibly my favourite out of Alan Kitching’s selection of Letterpress prints!

Letterpress – Alan Kitching

A designer, typographer and teacher, Alan Kitching is internationally renowned for his expressive use of letterpress. Not to mention; advertising and his own limited edition prints and ‘Broadside’ publications. He started out as a printer and developed into printmaker and then on to be an apprentice to professor. His work has featured widely such as […]

A bit of Letterpress.

Tomorrow I’ll have the opportunity to experiment and create some of my own prints in letterpress, to help undertsand I’ve searched a little bit into history of Letterpress. I quote; http://miyostudiosblog.com/letterpress-printing-history-and-process “Historically, letterpress was the process by which everything from church documents to newspapers were printed en masse. In the 15th Century, it was the […]