Starting the new year with some design inspiration, I took myself along to the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow to catch their latest exhibition, on the life and work of May Morris, William’s younger daughter. It was a fantastic and comprehensive collection of her work; from the early designs she produced for Morris & co, […]
Firstly a big thank you to everyone who came to visit us at this year’s Holborn, Cockpit Arts Christmas Open Studios last weekend; we had a great turnout and it’s always nice to chat to the public about printing and the launch of our new product range. Following on from that, we are pleased to […]
I recently took a short trip to Lisbon and while I knew it was a city famous for it’s ornamental tile work, it was fantastic to see it up close, especially since so many of the patterns and flourishes have a lot of similarities to letterpress ornament. There were some great examples of the range […]
If there are three things that I like in particular it’s: printing, coffee and tinkering, and this slightly mad experiment combines all three! I think the idea came from somewhere between testing out some new inks I’d recently acquired from Hawthorn Printmaker Supplies, experimental home-made ice cream recipes and a pub chat about memories of […]
Hello there, do come in, and welcome to Print & Ephemera! We should probably start with the obligatory introduction: I’m Theo Wang and I’ve set up this new venture. Some of you may know me previously as one of the co-founders of SORT, the Society Of Revisionist Typographers, which I set-up in 2009 with […]