Tom Boulton, Theo Wang The Society of Revisionist Typographers, www.sortdesign.com Play (40min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

The Society of Revisionist Typographers would like to give a brief introduction to the history of our founding and how we established a letterpress printing business in this day and age. Illustrated with examples of our work and the collection of printing equipment we use day-to-day.

The Society of Revisionist Typographers consists of Messrs Tom Boulton and Theo Wang. Having met and graduated from the London College of Printing (now Communication), we established SORT with the aim to preserve and revive the traditional forms of print-based graphic design that are often threatened with obsolescence through practice and application. We design and produce our own product range, available in retailers including Liberty, Tate, Southbank Centre & Magma. We have also worked on commissions with a number of designers, artists and individuals.

Martin Andrews University of Reading Play (26min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

An introduction to auto-lithography and the work of Rena Gardiner who, in a small cottage in Dorset, devoted her life to writing, illustrating, printing and binding a series of historical guide books. Rena treated a small industrial press as a hand-press and created work of great individuality.

Martin Andrews is a lecturer in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading and is a museum designer and printing historian.

Dave Farey, Colin Brignall Play (35min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

In 1961 the Letraset dry transfer product was patented and launched, and it was a product of its time. There were also far reaching benefits for the graphic design industry and for the future of type design, both analog and digital. From the mid 1980s, with the launch of Apple Mac, sales of rub down lettering sheets went into a gradual decline but the legacy of Letraset is undeniable.

Colin Brignall and Dave Farey were involved from the very beginning, both becoming Letraset type design studio managers responsible for selecting, designing and artworking unique typefaces for transfer and subsequently creating fonts for all aspects of the current digital market.

Nick Morley, Victoria Browne East London Printmakers, www.eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk Play (23min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

East London Printmakers is an artists’ cooperative based on Mare Street in Hackney. Set up 12 years ago to create a support group for artists using printmaking, they now run a busy studio with facilities for etching, screenprint, relief printing and photopolymer/photoetching. With over 200 members the group organises regular exhibitions in London and internationally as well as workshops, artist’s talks and a residency programme. The group is almost entirely self-funded and is run by a group of voluntary committee members but all members are encouraged to organise events and have a say in the running of the studio. www.eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk

Nick Morley is an artist and freelance illustrator. A member of East London Printmakers for the last eight years, he is also the current chair of ELP’s committee. Nick has a passion for printmaking, especially the underrated art of linocut, about which he writes an occasional blog (linocutboy.blogspot.com). Nick teaches printmaking workshops at ELP and London Print Studio. He has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally and has been commissioned to illustrate book covers for Faber and Faber, Penguin and the Folio Society. www.nickmorley.co.uk | www.linocutboy.etsy.com

Victoria Browne holds a Master of Arts in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking from the Centre of Print Research, University of the West of England and studied at the Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen in Norway. Victoria is currently the resident artist at the University of Middlesex London. She works with artists to edition polymer photogravure prints and teaches a variety of printmaking techniques. www.kaleideditions.com | www.lillil.com

Teal Triggs Play (33min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Fanzines are ‘do-it-yourself’, amateur, limited run, publications whose producers are keen to share their passion for a subject with other like-minded individuals. This paper will explore the graphic form of the fanzine and its place within a broader alternative culture.

Teal Triggs is Professor of Graphic Design, co-Director of the research unit for Information Environments (IE). She is also Course Director for MA Design Writing Criticism and for MRes Information Environments, London College of Communication. As a graphic design historian, critic and educator she has lectured internationally and her writings have appeared in numerous international design publications. Her new book about the graphic language of fanzines is due out in Autumn 2010 (Thames & Hudson).

Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck Danish designer, Book artist. www.ambeck.mdd.dk Play (11min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

I will discuss how – and why – I self-publish work, often using the most hands-on DIY means, showing examples from early, entirely hand-made, process work, to more recent hybrids of analogue/digital processes. The DIY aesthetic, focused on the intended creative goal, has for me embraced blades, pixels and all points between.

Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck is a Danish designer, book artist, and lecturer who began exhibiting at artists’ book fairs in 2000. She has since exhibited and sold internationally, from Korea to Australia, the USA and Finland. Originally, as a Graphic Design and Communications student at Central Saint Martins, she pursued her interest in making books through traditional means, getting a first taste for letterpress and glue. With a keen eye for computer-generated imagery she has since combined the two. Her distinctive trademark is hand-cutting into paper pages, using the physical structure of the book to direct the reader through a narrative sequence. Experimentation with structures and the influence of light cast on materials has also been vital to her work, which can now be found in many international public collections, including those at the Tate Collection, V&A, Manchester Metropolitan University Library All Saints and Smith College, Massachusetts.

Alex Bec, Will Hudson It’s Nice That, www.itsnicethat.com Play (31min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

It’s Nice That curate, publish and direct the finest work and practitioners from across the creative industry. Since setting up in April 2007, directors Will Hudson and Alex Bec have remained dedicated to staying up to date with studios and individuals and discovering new talent from all over the world, adding to their online archive daily. They’ll be speaking about how the site has developed both on and offline, and if there was ever a plan…

Will Hudson founded It’s Nice That while studying Graphic Design at The University of Brighton. Initially hailing from Birmingham, he moved to London after studying to work at a graphic design studio, honing his skills in print and web before founding studio HudsonBec with Alex. As HudsonBec ran its course, It’s Nice That became the main outlet for his work where he continues to design and art direct as well as write on the blog every day. Alex Bec joined as co-director and editor of It’s Nice That towards the end of 2008. Having built up a good working relationship with Will while working on their self initiated project If You Could in Brighton, he moved to London to work at Peepshow Collective, sharpening his project management and direction skills. On leaving Peepshow and setting up HudsonBec, it felt like a natural step for the two to also join forces on It’s Nice That, creating a more succinct studio environment and adding their individual skills.

Kevin Braddock, Peter Lyle www.themanzine.com Play (16min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

How and why we made Manzine, including thoughts on DIY publishing, fanzines, aspiration, conventions, hi-visibility jackets and the death of the Lad.

Kevin Braddock is former Features Editor of The Face and contributing editor on GQ. Peter Lyle is a writer and editor on Tank, Electric! and former associate editor of Arena. Woz is an award-winning art director.