#Workshop Press

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Typography Tuesday

Last month we presented some printer's flowers and electrotype cuts from from Printing from Metal and Wood, handprinted in 1985 by English type and printing enthusiast Mark Arman at his Workshop Press in Thaxted, Essex, in an edition of 145 copies signed by the author/printer. Today we display some of the diverse type specimens from this book.

The subtitle of the book is, Using Hand Presses and 18th & 19th Century Types, Blocks, Electors, and Decorations; The Story of an Obsession with Printing. The content of the book is clearly idiosyncratic to Arman's approach to printing. He writes:

In Paragraphs on Printing, Bruce Rogers said 'The best printing follows traditional lines because printing is a conservative as well as a preservative art.' By making this modest collection of types and blocks, and illustrating them here, I have accepted this principle. Some biographical details, and a few personal anecdotes have been included, for they help explain how printing became an obsession, and why this book had to be printed. It is hoped it will give some pleasure.

Our copy, another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick, once belonged to the printing historian Richard E. Huss and bears his bookplate.

View other books from the estate of Dennis Bayuzick.

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[taudad]

Y’all the Manta is gone from GW’s website

[darknanigans]

more helmetless gabe as i jump back into my folk music obsession

despite asking discord i couldn't decide on whether to give him dasani water bottle eyes (ebove) or dead fish (below) eyes so have both

[off-brand-adorabbit]

Working on a little something and thought I would do well not to forget the girlies

[moodr1ng]

oh wait i forgot i still have my college ipad ive been meaning to resell.. the question is: do i resell it first to offset the price of a new laptop, or do i keep it bc i can use it to do some digital art and resell it after ive got a new laptop.. or is the fact that its my only way to make art if my laptop dies a sign that i should keep it jic

[knickknackgalore]

Oscar's Grouchy Sounds

[tittyinfinity]

Tech help pages are so fucking annoying because you'll see someone post something like

"I've been playing this game for 10 years and suddenly this thing isn't working. I've gone through my system files, went back to college, graduated in IT, and held the owner of the gaming software company hostage but I still can't figure it out"

The replies:

"Have you tried using the thing that isn't working?"

"Try doing it on a different console."

"Download this program and it will fix everything!" *sketchy link*

[theworkshopmann]

Power Press

'Heavy will lift tiny coward weight!..Da!'

Type: Taunt

Class: Heavy

Accepted in game: No

This taunt was made by Steam users ToxicWeasel and Saint Lombax Akatsuki Na'vi. Posted on June 27th 2016, you can vote for this here!

[vinegar-rights]

Maybe ill get better at drawing bgs. Bc i really wanna draw seymours room/the basement.

[cursedthing]

.the strength not to add patch notes under our writing whenever we change something. it is dwindling and now that we think about it it's actually really charming. might start doing that :D

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Here are some arrangements of printer's flowers, a few electrotype cuts, and a wood engraving from Printing from Metal and Wood, handprinted in 1985 by English type and printing enthusiast Mark Arman at his Workshop Press in Thaxted, Essex, in an edition of 145 copies signed by the author/printer. Arman writes:

The purpose of this book is to illustrate and use different type faces , to experiment with those of the 19th century which today would be unfashionable, and to re-create an interest in those wood blocks, fleurons and electros, which were in use at the turn of the century. It is a book concerned with styles of printing and design which are no longer popular, but it is a book which owes its very existence to the author's delight in printing, type, layout and design.

Our copy of this book is another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.

View other books from the estate of Dennis Bayuzick.

View other posts on work by Mark Arman.

View other posts with type ornaments.

View more Typography Tuesday posts.

[threecrowsinacloak]

lino print my darling <3

and lino print on fabric, my nemesis </3

[bumpscosity]

GOZERS SOUND IS GOING OUT IM SO SAD RN

[thegirlwiththelantern]

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Fantastic seeing everyone's pictures from this year's GlasGLOW and a big thanks for letting us share your great pics with some of our feature pumpkins!