Author: Matt
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The Platen Press: Part 4 – The Minty Green Printy Machine
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Finishing the last of the painting on the press, and it’s almost ready to be reassembled!
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TipoItalia 2025
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An overview of the two weeks that I spent at Tipoteca, as part of the TipoItalia 2025 residency.
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Making Problems to Solve – Podcast Feature
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I was recently a guest on Dave Bauer’s podcast, “Making Problems to Solve,” where we discussed letterpress, digital fabrication, and all things making.
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The Platen Press: Part 3 – Like one big jigsaw puzzle, only much heavier
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In the last post, we took a look at a bit of a plan of attack for the restoration and rebuild of my 125 year old platen printing press (which if you missed, you can read here). That last post was a little while ago (apparently I’m not great at…
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The Platen Press: Part 2 – The Problems and The Plan
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A more detailed look at the press, the parts, and the problems I’ll have to tackle in rebuilding this machine.
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The Platen Press – Part 1: Extraction (or a cautionary tale of saying “How hard can it be?”).
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The start of another mammoth project, involving very heavy cast iron, reckless optimism, and a big hammer.
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Print Analysis: fi Ligature with viscosity print
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Detailed analysis of a print – fi ligature with viscosity ink printing technique.
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Speaking at the Hamilton Wayzgoose Annual Conference 2023
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Recounting my experiences travelling to the US to attend and present at the 15th annual Hamilton Wayzgoose conference in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.