Natalie Tyler

Here’s a fascinating little film for a Friday afternoon. Who knew so much work goes into making ink? How do these guys keep their hands so clean? And why do I now want to eat it after watching this? Probably raises a few more questions than it answers but it’s totally worth watching just to see just how much passion and craftsmanship goes into making the inks that many of us rely on t…

I love my feed reader and today it unearthed this gem from the ever awesome swissmiss blog. Feast your eyes upon The Museum of Letters (or Buchstabenmuseum if you’re a local Berliner). / The Museum of Letters is devoted to preserving and documenting letterforms. We are currently in the process of putting together our permanent collection and are actively searching out outstanding letterform…

It’s been a long time since I found myself in an art space without a single computer in sight so a couple of weeks ago I took the plunge and signed up for a letterpress taster day at Ink Spot Press in Brighton (UK). Early Saturday morning, I ventured out of my mole hole without so much as a sideways glance at my laptop, popped some driving tunes in the CD player and headed off down the A23 …

I’m sure loads of bubblers experience periods of time when the day job takes over both thoughts and energy levels and creating art seems to slip way down the list of life’s priorities. Sleep, spending time with neglected nearest and dearest or putting the brain on ice at the end of the day just seems more important and we slip into some sort of accidental hiatus from creativity. It ha…