Got a new letter !!

This time it was a reply from the Prime minister in Norway. My conclusion from this experiment is: someone replies on their behalf every time, even to me! Which I would say are quite good :) Haven't heard anything yet from the Norwegian Ambassy here in London or the Norwegian Sjømannskirke in London. Still they got a nice card for 17. mai.

Posters from Hand & Eye Letterpress

I did a two weeks internship here as well last summer. Phil, Rosa and Nick that works there are nice people, and they all love letterpress. Together these three have made several posters which I think are amazing, really good letterpress work.

Next wishes

My new wishes of stuff I want to get my hands on (of letterpress stuff) is big wood type, but I also want to have smaller. But really really big ones would be so fun to work with. Have never had a chance to do work with bigger than 24line. Check out the link to see one example of use of big wood type. I love ilovedust <3

First test-print

Finally got my hands on my type! It was as fun and exciting as I thought it was going to be :)
Small info about my type (I like the sound of that):
• 15 cases with type
• 1 empty case
• 3 cases finished organized and lightly cleaned
• these are the fonts;
- 8pt Gill Sans
- 10pt Gill Sans
- 10pt Gill Sans Bold
- 12pt Gill Sans
- 12pt Gill Sans Bold
- 12pt Temple Script
- 14pt Temple Script
- 18pt Times Roman
- 18pt Times Bold
- 18pt Palace Script
- 18pt Grotesque
- 18pt Imprint Shadow
- 18pt Imprint Shadow Italic
- 18pt Unknown
- 24pt Unknown x2

There are also some cases with italic together with roman, and some are just in capitals. Some are just a few of each letter, but I still love them all! There is still a lot of work organizing each case, but I will manage to do it at some point ;)

Quiz of the day

While I'm tidying up in the cases of type I bought last week I thought of a quiz; what letters are in the photo above (from left to right)? ;)

Letter from the Norwegian King

Yes, actually I did! :) I sent one of my 17. Mai cards to him with a small personal note to him and his family saying Happy Birthday on our National Day. Of course it is signed by the Cabinet Secretary on his behalf, but still. I hope this means that he actually saw it, but I don't really think so. But still nice :)

MY first complete set of type !!

I'm so excited to start printing next week!! Yes, it is true!! I bought a cabinet of type, and I got lovely Sophia to help me go and pick it up today:) I'm so happy for the help:) thank you sooooooo much!! My first metal type (a set) that is mine, and all MINE!! This is a start of my collection of letterpress equipment that I dream of having in a few years;) I'm so happy now!! Can't believe I got that amount of type. Hopefully I will soon have something printed with it :)