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“Baybayin” wood type revived after a Chinese xylography from 1593

Article written by Delia, 416 words, 2 minutes to read In the summer of 2025 we met Sarah Kemle from @slikcreative.studio located in Munich, Germany through the Dutch printer Thomas Gravemaker @thomasgravemaker for a collaboration on the wood type production of the BayBayin typeface. In the first phase, we sent Sarah some wood type samples […]

Transylvanian Heraldry

This is a letterpress project developed by Petrescu Press, that for several reasons, we decided to take the time and write about; these are some of them: – the entire project is started from scratch, the design that was first to be conceived, with the wood type made after; – the design is made so that both […]

Letterpress revival

I will write a few words about the present position of letterpress revival. Of late years, a kind of revival has been going on, as a protest against the conviction, with all our modern advanced technology, mechanical achievements, comforts, and luxuries; life is growing “uglier every day”. In the first place, the very fact that […]