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 steel pen design from the 19th century until the...

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.com). The film will be premiered this autumn...

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 in Birmingham and London and then place for auction...

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 of the city. This was not an indulgent trip to sample...

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 helping build up the typography element within the...