Type Night.....

Trevor Johnson /Havas Lynx hosted an evening of typography in their offices, showcasing salvaged hand drawn letters that were destined for the skip. many of the letters were for sale and those on display were snapped up pretty quickly! It was a great opportunity to network and catch up with graduates from Staffordshire who now work in Manchester.

The Linotype Font Library

These hand drawn “Letters” are part of the font library salvaged from the Lynotype Factory on Broadheath, Altrincham, Cheshire, just on the outskirts of Manchester.

These drawings of individual letters in every different font imaginable were the starting point of manufacturing matrices for the Linotype Printing Machine. The matrices are brass moulds of the letter forms, the machine puts these brass moulds in a line, and they are filled with molten metal and cast in a single piece.

The name of the machine comes from the fact that it produces an entire line of metal type at once, hence a line-o-type, a significant improvement over the previous industry standard, i.e. manual letter by letter type setting using a composing stick and drawers of letters.

UCAS 2014

Our lovely new UCAS stand was taken to London this week. Come and see us in Manchester on 24th + 25th November.......have a dip in the 'ball pit of curiosity'!!

Fonts, fun and festivities

First year Graphic Design and Illustration students journeyed down to the capital to experience the creative delights and hustle and bustle of the city whilst visiting  a host of great design studios and creative practitioners.

Included in their 3 day 'tour' included  Coley Porter Bell (Branding & Packaging), YCN (Young Creatives Network), Dalton Maag (Typeface Design), Tate Modern, Brixton Village and Borough Market amongst other attractions. Thanks go to the studios for their time and inspirational presentations.....