PETER GIBBONS
Updated 18 days ago
An exclusive series of twenty-six single edition letterpress prints. The prints are composed from antique wooden type and locked up on a manually-operated proofing press. The type is then hand-inked and a single print pulled onto deep-dyed, lightfast coloured card. The age of the wooden type blocks, and the hand-inking process, mean that appealing textures and imperfections are reproduced in the finished prints and no two impressions are the same. A different card colour is used for each print, which is signed, numbered and stamped, making every edition unique...
A small letterpress design and print studio in Herne Hill run by graphic designer Pete Gibbons. Using reclaimed and renovated antique manual printing presses, the studio hand-prints bespoke commissions and limited editions using vintage wood and metal type
Also known as: Railton Press