Philip Larkin

I'm doing a project in Uni called Subvert the Familiar and I've been looking at people's attitudes towards poetry. I haven't entirely formulated my ideas but I've been reading a lot of poetry as a result. This is just something I was playing around with the other day with my old typewriter. I'm was just typing up a whole load of Larkin's poems on old revision cards and things to get this library aesthetic (he was a librarian). I might hide some in the library.

B

I have dozens of these little stick on letters, but the packaging is just too cool to use them!

NYC

Just over a week now until I'm jetting off to New York for work experience! I'm rather excited to say the least but I have a hectic few days ahead of me. I have to move half my stuff into my new house, half my stuff home as well as packing up for 2 months and sorting out a trip to Spain as well! So posts will be sporadic to say the least for the next 2 months!

wood type

For a while I've been meaning to collate a few complete alphabets of wood type prints. This ended up being the basis for a HUGE book I made in december for our batch production project. Over 5 books I printed 1040 pages in letterpress, each page looked like the one above, containing one example of wood type. Most came from the tray of odd letters in the letterpress workshop which are either broken or don't belong anywhere. Anyway, the other day I spent about 4 hours scanning every page so I could have a digital version. When I eventually get my website up and running I would like to put them all up.

M

Still really in to this type project. I managed to finish one of the three we have to do , in letter press. Pics up shortly. I am about to start painting the second. exciting stuff!

Yet more type

More lovely letters

more type

More gorgeous type poached from library books. This one is called Letter Press: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury. I have it permanently on loan!

Ornamental Type

We've just been set a new project looking at type in the days before Macs. I've just been doing lots of research and come across some gorgeous victorian posters and type setters books.

lovely letterpress

This is just a little something I did in letterpres the other day. These were in the tray for odds and ends that have no homes : ( which is a shame because I think they are gorgeous and I wish the rest of them were there. 

O

This is just a little something that I did in letterpress a while ago. I love the Gill sans O and the letterpress has a whole load of wood cut type in Gill. The o in the middle is Caslon, also wood and also beautiful. I love all the imperfections in wood type.