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A Master Lettercutter Passing on Her Craft – The Alphabeticians (2026) | Documentary

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James Mosley (1935–2025).
Final chapter of Caro's The power broker. It's been a book.

A while ago I was wondering where the Reading MATD work is shown: here's last year's cohort:

http://macd.network/showcase-studio-b/

(Looks there’s been some restructuring, too)

MA Communication Design student work

Unpublished until now, a c. 2010 piece by Peter Campbell contemplating what type museums can preserve

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/peter-campbell/diary

Peter Campbell · Diary: In the Print Shop

I still work with print and play with words, but the sound of typesetting is now the tapping of a writer at a word...

London Review of Books

Paul Shaw has asked me to spread the word about the Letterforms Study Group at the Tipoteca 2025. A great opportunity to enjoy Tipoteca Italiana. There are some partial scholarships available for those 35 or younger.

https://www.paulshawletterdesign.com/2024/03/letterforms-study-group-at-the-tipoteca-2025-wood-type-workshop/

and

https://www.paulshawletterdesign.com/2024/07/letterforms-study-group-at-the-tipoteca-2025-wood-type-workshop-dates-and-pricing/

I am strongly considering it!

cc: @Leo

Paul Shaw Letter Design » Letterforms Study Group at the Tipoteca 2025—Wood Type Workshop

I’m not sure if CAST are on here, but their Allfabeti Modernisti project, which draws on Luca Lattuga’s research and revives caseloads of Italian modernist display typefaces from the thirties and forties, is now live. There are some really fun, surprising shapes lurking in there – I quite like Tripoli and really enjoyed reviving Tirana.

https://www.c-a-s-t.com/alfabeti-modernisti/

Alfabeti Modernisti

Italian modernist wood and metal typefaces from the 1930s-1940s, once widespread in advertising and design, have been revived by CAST. Based on Luca Lattuga’s research, the Alfabeti Modernisti collection updates these forgotten typefaces, adapting them to meet today’s design standards while preservi

Cast Type Foundry

With eight grand and less than two hours to go, I’m not sure Unit Editions’ English-language version of Luca Pitoni’s book about the unjustly neglected Anita Klinz is going to make it, but I would like to be surprised: she did good, smart work.

Some of it’s visible here: https://mailchi.mp/69157686408b/seeking-beauty-anita-klinz4-final?e=89fb79321c

And the book spiel’s here:

https://vol.co/collections/seeking-beauty

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Where do recent MATD grads showcase their work? typefacedesign.org just shows the 2020 cohort and I feel like I missed an announcement or two.
Found Walter Brudi's stamp celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Gutenberg Bible the other day.