GPO: Modernism & Design - Paul Rennie - 18th November - 4.30 pm G12 - Southampton Row

I picked up the lecture postcards/invitations from the letterpress studio. They turned out so beautiful and precious, these photos are not doing them any justice. I had a hard time distributing them as I just wanted to carry the stacks around all day long and secretly reach into my bag during crits and feel the texture of the rich manilla clothy card and the relief of the letters. Only slightly geekily obsessed. x

Mine:




Magdalena Sobczynska's:

Letterpress.

Together with a 3rd year graphics student I've been designing the announcement poster/cards for next weeks lecture - The General Post Office: Modernism & Design, 18 November, 4.30 pm - G12 by Paul Rennie. The use of letterpress fits perfectly in the process of my search for analogue peace. I have come to the conclusion that manual typesetting is the bee's knees. And so is rugged grumpy letterpress veteran/instructor Nick. He wears a derelict sweater with a hole in it, has fat stained sausage fingers, a missing front tooth, endless typographic knowledge and posesses the master ability to crack down juggernaut style on everyone who doesn't do what he says / shows up too late or unprepared. He will make you cry for yo mama, in his eyes you are a maggot. As I hung out with him for the past couple of days he showed me the ropes as long as I promised to pay attention and not do anything stupid. I went in humble-mode and all went well. He even let me take some pictures. So here's a semi-documentary style series on the Southampton Row Letterpress Studio, shot with a Blackberry Curve 8900 (I know, shame.) x