The Professional Type: How letters can shape your future.

Then and Now: the importance of letterpress and typography in the 21^st century and beyond.

Film Screening:

“The modern world was born on a printing press. Once essential to communication, the 500-year-old process is now in danger of being lost as its caretakers age. From self-proclaimed basement hoarders to the famed Hatch Show Print, Pressing On: The Letterpress Film explores the question: why has letterpress survived?”

Watch the Trailer here

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Panel Discussion Speakers:

• Amrit Randhawa, Graphic Designer at Taxi Cab Industries (Reading/Manchester)

Amrit Randhawa is a graphic designer, artist, lecturer, writer and occasional DJ. He is the designer behind Manchester-based studio Taxi Cab Industries and is currently studying Typography at the University of Reading, where his research explores the use of typography within British-Asian cultural outputs.

• Dani Molyneux, Graphic Designer at Studio Dotto (Manchester)

Danielle Molyneux is a type-twisting artist, designer and the person at Dotto. She’s obsessed with words and their power to change, challenge and inspire. Her quest is to bringvwords to vibrant life, playfully challenging perceptions and celebrating ideas. Making words to live by.

• David Armes, Visual Artist at Red Plate Press (Todmorden)

David Armes is a visual artist working with print, language and geography, primarily using letterpress printing to make typographic artworks that range in scale from artist’s books to art prints to large scroll installations. David’s work is often site-specific and considers how experience of place and space can be represented. He frequently shows at book and print fairs around Europe and in recent years has been artist-in-residence at Industriemuseum (Gent, Belgium, 2021), Bodleian Library (University of Oxford, 2019) and Wells Book Arts Center (New York state, USA, 2017). He is a current Visiting Fellow at the British Library. 

• Oli Bentley, Creative Director of The People Powered Press and design studio Split (Shipley)

Oli Bentley has worked as a designer and graphic artist since he set up design studio Split whilst a music student in 2007.

He works extensively in the music, arts and non-profit sectors, also creating self initiated work as a designer/graphic artist, letterpress printer and type designer, centred around themes of place, power and collective identity.

Oli is the founder of the People Powered Press – born from his award-winning exhibition and book, These Northern Types – and designed its large steel typeface, Graft. More recently he has created the Brico type system in collaboration with Anthony Burrill and Thomas Mayo – created to work with community groups on large-scale murals and so that anyone might share in the joy of type designing at a massive scale.

About The People Powered Press:

Originally built by JKN OilTools in Batley, The People Powered Press is recognised by Guinness as the largest letterpress printing press of its kind in the world!

We work in collaboration with community groups, printers, artists and a wide range of writers to co-create large scale letterpress works from our workshop in Salts Works.

We also offer community and private workshop opportunities to write, create and print your own works using this very special press and a wide variety of other workshops that support our community work.

www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org

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