Keepsake for a group of students from Alabama this week

2026: studio expansion

We’ve spent January doing the heavy jigsaw puzzle that is moving type cabinets and things are beginning to find their place. The new layout provides extra work surfaces and, with fewer ‘towers of type’, it’s much brighter and easy to move around.

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Printing plate on a Columbian press being cleaned with a cotton bud after inking

Lovely write-up on Print Mag about the Roots of Trust prints commissioned by Rachel Botsman
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New (to us) 24pt Verona

Print being held by Graham Bignell and Nigel Bents next to a statue of William Shakespeare at the site of The Curtain Playhouse, Shoreditch in East London.

One Quoting Shakespeare letterpress print

If you ‘lie low’ till ‘the crack of doom’ because you suspect ‘foul play’, you are quoting Shakespeare.

Letterpress print edition available from our website shop now. (‘On Quoting Shakespeare’, originally written by Bernard Levin.)

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It took lots of tests and patience to get right but the result was worth it and, appropriately, we really appreciated Rachel’s trust in us to get it right.

Due to its large size it was printed on our Columbian press. The artwork required the filing down and joining of three separate plates and, to stop the dampened paper picking up anything outside the printing surface, the voids were cleaned down with cotton buds before each printing.

The diagram, originally created in 1855 by Daniel Callum, Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railway Company, is the first known organisational chart. Unlike top-down pyramid structures it branches out from the base in an organic network of connections.

‘Roots of Trust’ limited edition letterpress prints.

Commissioned by Rachel Botsman to accompany her upcoming contribution to the London Deign Biennale reimagining a historical design artefact that changed people’s working lives.

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Keepsakes for students from Auburn University, Alabama USA, using our wood, metal and 3D-printed types

Fantastic experimental materials classes with Dafi Kühne at NNP yesterday

Best wishes for 2025.
New(ish) year, new platform