{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Urban Design"],"cover":{"alt":"Upside Down, Left to Right: The Letterpress Revival","height":1036,"src":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/upside-down-left-to-right-the-letterpress-revival/Upside-Down-Letter-Press-Film.jpg","width":1840},"credit":"","date":"2012-03-21T15:11:34Z","description":"Upside Down, Left to Right is a short film about the letterpress revival and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK.","html":"\u003cp\u003eOld-school ways of printing, like screen printing, are currently re-experiencing another revival with artists, using those very technical and manually adjustable proceedings to create limited print editions with a rough and sometimes vintage style\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRegarding Paul Collier, another of these revival experiencing printing techniques is letterpress printing. When I stumbled upon the nice and intimate \u003cem\u003eUpside Down, Left to Right\u003c/em\u003e letterpress film by \u003ca href=\"http://www.dannycooke.co.uk/2012/01/26/upside-down-left-to-right/\"\u003eDanny Cooke\u003c/a\u003e, I immediately felt like a small kid watching his grand-dad working! I’m a big letterpress fan, mainly because of that certain feeling you have by stroking the printed surface and the knowledge of how difficult creating good letterpress prints can be, for what reason I really loved this short film.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMake sure to check it out and probably you’ll soon be part of the letterpress revival by going to print your next flyer, invitation or whatsoever in the next letterpress printing studio!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"archive-figure historical-figure\"\u003e\u003cpicture style=\"--image-width: 1840px; --image-ratio: 1840 / 1036\" data-source-width=\"1840\" data-source-height=\"1036\" data-width-cap=\"1440\" data-height-cap=\"1036\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/avif\" srcset=\"/upside-down-left-to-right-the-letterpress-revival/Upside-Down-Letter-Press_hu_e3fbf03670f7ae9e.avif 480w, /upside-down-left-to-right-the-letterpress-revival/Upside-Down-Letter-Press_hu_3ef20061144b3137.avif 960w, /upside-down-left-to-right-the-letterpress-revival/Upside-Down-Letter-Press_hu_15c6e349f297dc6f.avif 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/webp\" srcset=\"/upside-down-left-to-right-the-letterpress-revival/Upside-Down-Letter-Press_hu_1cb06f090ebd31bc.webp 480w, /upside-down-left-to-right-the-letterpress-revival/Upside-Down-Letter-Press_hu_c7ad3631a25909af.webp 960w, /upside-down-left-to-right-the-letterpress-revival/Upside-Down-Letter-Press_hu_f5fd47f48b057fa2.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg src=\"/upside-down-left-to-right-the-letterpress-revival/Upside-Down-Letter-Press_hu_cf270f13109b78b1.jpg\" srcset=\"/upside-down-left-to-right-the-letterpress-revival/Upside-Down-Letter-Press_hu_5852ed895f568b51.jpg 480w, /upside-down-left-to-right-the-letterpress-revival/Upside-Down-Letter-Press_hu_7f357da843a71014.jpg 960w, /upside-down-left-to-right-the-letterpress-revival/Upside-Down-Letter-Press_hu_cf270f13109b78b1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\" width=\"1440\" height=\"811\" alt=\"Upside Down Letter Press\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\n\u003c/picture\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eUpside Down Letter Press\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\nVia \u003ca href=\"http://www.penslingers.com/?p=359\"\u003epenslingers.com\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\nOld-school ways of printing, like screen printing, are currently re-experiencing another revival with artists, using those very technical and manually adjustable proceedings to create limited print editions with a rough and sometimes vintage style...\n\nRegarding Paul Collier, another of these revival experiencing printing techniques is letterpress printing. When I stumbled upon the nice and intimate *Upside Down, Left to Right* letterpress film by [Danny Cooke](http://www.dannycooke.co.uk/2012/01/26/upside-down-left-to-right/), I immediately felt like a small kid watching his grand-dad working! I’m a big letterpress fan, mainly because of that certain feeling you have by stroking the printed surface and the knowledge of how difficult creating good letterpress prints can be, for what reason I really loved this short film.\n\nMake sure to check it out and probably you’ll soon be part of the letterpress revival by going to print your next flyer, invitation or whatsoever in the next letterpress printing studio!\n\n![Upside Down Letter Press](\u003chttps://www.urbanartcore.com/upside-down-left-to-right-the-letterpress-revival/Upside-Down-Letter-Press.jpg\u003e)\n\nUpside Down Letter Press \nVia [penslingers.com](http://www.penslingers.com/?p=359).\n","tags":["Typography","Documentary Film","Print"],"title":"Upside Down, Left to Right: The Letterpress Revival","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/upside-down-left-to-right-the-letterpress-revival/"}