Spent a bit of time down at Glasgow Press this week to see a new project on the press. We’ve been working with acclaimed photographer Kieran Dodds to produce the first in a series of A5 postcard sets called ‘little shots’. These shots are of the boxes in production, which have been letterpressed on two shades of Materica from Fedrigoni. We needed to work closely with Dan and Larry to make sure the colour had just the right amount of contrast and they’ve turned out a treat…

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We’ve been busy working on the design of the programme for the National Theatre of Scotland’s forthcoming production of  ‘A Christmas Carol’. It’s currently with the printers. Here’s a sneak peek behind the scenes at the GSA’s letterpress studio. (more…)

‘We walk in bueaty’ (sic) said the otherwise elegant graffiti at the Navajo Nations Monument at Window Rock, Arizona. Underneath, some wag had added ‘even though we cannot spell it’. (more…)

These covers for OASE have caught our eye—a fantastic body of work and nearly all of it with pure typography. OASE is an independent, international, peer-reviewed journal for architecture that brings together academic discourse and the sensibilities of design practice. (more…)

OK we admit, not all of you will quite be able to grasp our love of all things typographic. And especially the old stuff. Don’t get us wrong, we like our contemporary type and living in the age where just about anything you can imagine can be visualised within a matter of days, or even minutes. But there’s something so lovely about the craft and art of old processes and a recent visit to the print studio at GSA to commission our first ‘o quarterly’ artwork got us all a bit excited. (more…)