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Matrix, a 35-volume typographical romance

Pat Randle — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 10:20:53 +0000

Matrix; a typographical romance.

The Puffin by Peter Allen

Pat Randle — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 10:11:53 +0000

The Puffin by Peter Allen

Venice by John Craig

Pat Randle — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:49:12 +0000

Venice typeface display, By John Craig

Whittington Summer Show, 2018

Pat Randle — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:29:26 +0000

Whittignton Summer Show poster, 2017.

Apple Girl

Pat Randle — Sat, 05 May 2018 11:44:48 +0000

Apple Girl by Andrew Anderson

Garden Birds Gather

Pat Randle — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:33:58 +0000

Gardens Birds Gather was originally intended for production at the Whittington Press Open Day on 3 September where Peter is usually able to work under bright skies. Sadly rain intervened in 2016 and until now the poster, like the birds, has been kept

It’s Hard to Tell a Lie

Pat Randle — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 13:36:26 +0000

This quotation appeared on James Mosley’s blog, and it appealed to us as Caslon (used here) is our favourite face. 60 copies were printed for the 2009 open day, and for the Caslon Club, an esoteric group whose membership is

Centaur

Pat Randle — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:58:53 +0000

“Centaur is among the most elegant and legible of the twentieth-century romans. Designed by Brtuce Rogers and hand-cut in 1915 for casting into case, it was redrawn for Monotype and reissued in 1929, and used by Rogers for his Oxford

When Caxton Discovered

admin — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:42:03 +0000

Hilary Pepler is among the most colourful exponents of twentieth-century letterpress printing. Here he allows his gaze to fall (inaccurately, see footnote) on the origins and socio-religious history (a few references missing here) of the printed word. But his sheer

The Master Printer

Pat Randle — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:13:45 +0000

“The master craftsman is here at work, demonstrating elegant use of movable type . . . ” Enlarged from a poster cut-out from Rudolf Koch’s Die Schriftgiesserie im Schattenbild, 1936, this poster was printed for the special copies of Matrix

China 1953

admin — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:41:50 +0000

Geoffrey Miller, for a while the printing partner of Edward Walters (see Matrix 00, pp. 00-00), was something of a mystery. Immensely talented as an engraver, but with a tiny output, nobody seemed to know anything about him until Sean

Reynolds Stone’s Janet

admin — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:41:15 +0000

When in Matrix 28 we printed Michael Harvey’s account of the digitising of Reynolds Stone’s Janet fount, we included a print from the original wood-engraving on which Reynolds had engraved each character, except for some reason the figure 5. He