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• The Pen Room

  The Pen Room is a lovely museum in Birmingham. For more than a century Birmingham was the centre of the world pen trade employing thousands of people. With its unique blend of ingenuity and industrial expertise found Birmingham was in the forefront of... Posted Sep 30 2008, 09:38 AM by caroline Archer with | with no comments Filed under: Birmingham, Pen Museum, Mason, Mitchell, Harrioson, Gilliott, Pens

• So you want to be in the movies?

  I am collaborating with the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design (part of Birmingham City University) on the production of ‘Baskerville’ - a short animation celebrating the life, work and influence of the city’s typographic genius (www.baskervilleproject... Posted Sep 11 2008, 03:20 PM by caroline Archer with | with no comments Filed under: Birmingham, baskerville

• Type Tarts

  I'm having a bit of saucy typographic fun and helping to raise some money for St Bride in the process. UKType are inviting printers, designers and typographers from around the world to create a type tart card: the results of which will be exhibited... Posted Sep 03 2008, 01:55 PM by caroline Archer with | with no comments Filed under: Birmingham, St Bride, typography

• Chocolate

  Its Easter so there has to be a chocolate printing story somewhere! I remember when I was a child my father used to take his printing diploma students on annual day-trip from Watford to Birmingham to the Cadbury factory in leafy Bournville just south... Posted Mar 20 2008, 06:01 PM by caroline Archer with | with no comments Filed under: Birmingham, Watford, design studio, packaging, bournville, tin box, design, cadbury, carton making

• In the footsteps of Leonard Jay

  I have just been made an Honorary Research Fellow at Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, (part of Birmingham City University), which used to be the Birmingham School of Arts & Crafts. Here I will be mentoring staff and research students and... Posted Mar 01 2008, 04:16 PM by caroline Archer with | with no comments Filed under: education, mechanical composition, hand composition, teaching, Birmingham, Leonard Jay, presswork, Institute of Art & Design