Mark McKellier

Thanks to Hooksmith’s excellent Substack on his newly acquired Delittle’s ‘Eboracum’ woodtype I’ve discovered I have some in my collection!
Ok it’s just the banner ends but great to ID - at 26 line the type would’ve been impressive!
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Spotted some lovely spurs for Netflix’s second season of ‘Wednesday’…

Testing complete - ‘Princestown’ now available in 8 and 10 line

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Introducing ‘Princestown’ - a revival of a 150+ year old hand carved original from @princetownpress - available as a 12 line 3A scheme with smaller sizes coming soon.

Happy printing! 🫆

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Happy sunny #makermonday !

Cutting 10line replacement French Clarendon/ Playbill/ Slab Serif/ whatever-your-name-for-it in endgrain Holly

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Cutting a 2A scheme of ‘Stewartby’ in endgrain pear.

You’ll hear a lot more about Stewartby in the future as the new Universal Studios theme park is going to be built on the site of what was the biggest brickworks in Europe.

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Second colour for the Space Boy print done - then onto some type…
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3A scheme of 12 line ‘Golbourne’ cut in end grain pear off on its travels to New York
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Not using my normal tools today - quickest way of cutting this 6ft slab of Pear into more manageable pieces 💪🪚

Another beautiful book in today’s post ‘The Complete Commercial Artist - Making Modern Design in Japan 1928-1930’ from the lovely people at @letterformarchive.org

(a bargain EBay find!)

New-to-me book by Steven Heller and Louise Fili - ‘Euro Deco’ is filled with beautiful examples of European Art Deco graphic design 😍

Very slooooow start to printmaking this year…

Only just got around to inking up the Space Boy print I was working on end of last year- picked up some of the laser cuts due to being a shallow cut but hey it’s part of the process.

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New #letterpress posters on our website, as always using antique woodtype and vintage metal type. Chocolate features 2 art nouveau ornaments from @mckellier.bsky.social revival series, some of the only 'new' blocks we have. Looking good with the Creamore Mill oak #poster hangers. #buyartfromartists

Always fun to see how AI handles letterpress - at least hands are getting better😂

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Laser cutting today - Horse Chestnut border cut in endgrain pear

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I noticed that the kerf (width of cut / blade thickness) is slightly different on my new blades for my trim saw. I remembered you get gasket paper in different thicknesses - a quick laser cut later and saw is back to being pica & point accurate.
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Another day of cutting the Day & Collins chromatic border…

A letterpress print with the words ‘every day we dance’ printed in silver on a white background with white art nouveau-style flowers.

Still working on resetting my relationship with all things online, staying busy printing and life-ing. Yesterday I dabbled with white-on-white for creating a background, and I like the results. (I’m also really enjoying the Tellenbach flower ornaments by @mckellier.bsky.social.) 🤍

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Beautiful letterforms ❤️

Cutting an A4 set of my chromatic Day & Collins border revival…

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What Is Typeface and What Are Fonts? A Quick Explainer What is typeface and how is it different from fonts? We’ve created a guide that answers that common question, plus examples.

Typeface v Font?

As this Shutterstock blog post neatly sums up:

"You can think of the typeface as the family and the font as the individual family members."

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Great mail day - postcard from the lovely @starshapedpress.bsky.social - thank you!

Testing the newly cut Bausto Inline plays nicely with my original sorts…

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Cutting 12 line ‘Lidlington’ numerals today in endgrain Pear

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Not sure where all the planets are but a beautiful night for star gazing…

Adding more Typehigh English Boxwood for engraving to the website…

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Personal project - working out the possibilities of making Javanese woodtype - overlapping diacritics being the main headache - the letterforms are beautiful - this is Noto Sans - final version will use something more elegant

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‘The reward of roguery - or the roasted cook’
From
“The World Turned Upside Down”, Chapbooks of the Eighteenth Century