A typography exhibition held at New North Press, ground floor (Near Old Street Tube Station) dedicated to modern practitioners of typography in letterpress.
An amazing and inspiring exhibition all about typography with a mixture of work varying from different backgrounds, well known and up and coming practitioners... some who I see daily! Walking around this exhibition I felt inspired to start working in letterpress no longer just digital typography, there is so much more texture and soul to these pieces of work and a skill of typesetting.
The placement of these letters I would never have even thought about- maybe i'm just narrow minded and can only see type in one way- but I think working with the type physically really gets you thinking about the layout differently, rather than on a static screen.
review about this exhibition
After looking around the gallery space and getting a real hunger for letter pressing, David my tutor (who exhibited) knew the owner of New North Press, who then gave us a tour of his studio upstairs. Obviously typographic instinct and curiosity kicked in immediately with being overwhelmed with the amount of type available there. I started asking Graham lots of questions, he saw himself more of a typesetter than typographer, a typographer being someone who designed type not just the layout. His favourite type face would have to be Caslon, which I can understand as is a beautiful piece of design as a book face- currently being used in some of my own book designs.The beauty about letterpress is when you enter at first it's overwhelming- what with being faced by draws and draws of typefaces ranging from 6pt to who knows what pt, the amount of organisation of it is amazing, a form of cataloguing, a system and a place for everything. Organised chaos at its best.
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I took great pleasure in seeing the collection, and going for a drink with designers and typographers after as well.
