A collaboration with good friend and ex-Senior Lecturer of BA Graphic Design at Chelsea College of Art, Nigel Bents.

Over the 18 years that Nigel brought student groups to New North Press to learn letterpress he became well-versed in explaining its many benefits to a generation of budding designers immersed in the digital world. This sermon gradually took shape in poster form as the jam-packed manifesto you see here. It was patiently typeset (and reset after a large section was accidentally dropped!) over several years and eventually was ready to be printed at the end of 2022.

Predominantly set in wood and metal type, some extra artwork elements were added as magnesium plates, where possible rescaling or supplementing illustration blocks from our collection. Printed in two colours tightly registered on an Albion hand press in a limited edition of 100.

Letterpress

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