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  • Designer printers

    In the past, the average printer never paid much attention to design. The customer would trustingly surrender his job over to the printer who would knock it in to some sort of ill-considered shape. The results were sometimes bad, rarely good and usually indifferent. So long as the customer got what he...
    Posted to Ultra Bold (Weblog) by caroline Archer on 11-25-2008

  • Revival type

    The Swinging ’60s started to sway somewhere in the ’50s and continued to reverberate in to the ’70s. It was a time when Britain rocked to the Beatles and Rolling Stones; was alarmed at the Great Train Robbery; and scandalised by the Profumo affair. Mary Quant dressed the nation’s youth and Terence Conran...
    Posted to Ultra Bold (Weblog) by caroline Archer on 11-18-2008

  • Imprimerie nationale

    It was Louis XIII, prompted by Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, who first established a printing office specifically to serve the French crown and state. Cardinal Richelieu may be better known for his creation of the Académie française (for the defence of the French language), the Académie Royale...
    Posted to Ultra Bold (Weblog) by caroline Archer on 11-18-2008

  • Hard Times

    I was saddened to learn that the printing museum in Cockemouth, Cumbria had recently closed and the contents of the place were up for sale. The Museum had been housed in a 16th Century building in the centre of the town where it exhibited a varied range of printing presses collected from across the country...
    Posted to Ultra Bold (Weblog) by caroline Archer on 08-28-2008

  • Flock of words

    Last week I mentioned my visit to Morcambe and the Midland Hotel. Well, the other surprising – and delightful – aspect of this seaside town is it is absolutely covered in letterforms. ‘Flock of Words’ is a path of bird poems, traditional sayings, jokes and song lyrics, which begins with the Book of Genesis...
    Posted to Ultra Bold (Weblog) by caroline Archer on 08-28-2008

  • A lament

    Watford doesn’t have many architectural features, but the one building of any merit it does have is its college. Erected in the 1930s it as good a building as you’ll find in the town. Significant too that is was, for over half a century, home to one of the best schools of printing in the country. But...
    Posted to Ultra Bold (Weblog) by caroline Archer on 03-07-2008

  • An Olympic casualty?

    I have long been a reader at St Bride Library where I have spent many hours trawling its archives for nuggets for both Prints Past and the many features I have written for Print Week . Located in the traditional heart of the printing and publishing industry, St Bride Library is a rendezvous where anyone...
    Posted to Ultra Bold (Weblog) by caroline Archer on 03-01-2008

  • A blog of my very own

    Print Week suggested I might like to have a blog. I’ve never had a blog of my very own before so this will be a bit of an adventure, although it’s buried pretty deep in the bowels of the website so I have absolutely no idea if anyone out there is going to find this – if you do, drop me a line and let...
    Posted to Ultra Bold (Weblog) by caroline Archer on 02-26-2008
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