Keeping ourselves busy.
From top left clockwise: Vivienne Westwood words (in the shop); a collaboration with Chuffed and Claire Cartwright; Own the means of the production poster (in the shop); packaging for Wright’s; Progress (in the shop); labels for Wilding Cider.
It goes without saying that it hasn't been quite the year that we were expecting. We are very grateful to everyone that has supported us either by commissioning work or by visiting and buying from the shop. We've not had a workshop in over a year and considering that they have been 50% of our work and income for eight years, it's no surprise that we've had to change and adapt to get by. We've continued to print for other people as well as design and print things that we care about. The shop has seen a lot of new editions from this work. We have also had time to plan and work on projects that hopefully will see the light of day sometime soon.
Workshops on the horizon.
We are excited to welcome people back into the workshop. Running workshops have always been a key part of what we do here. We're hoping to start from mid-April, we will put dates on the website in the next week or so. Please email you have any questions. Workshop gift vouchers are available in the shop. If you are a family, group of friends or business that would like to arrange your own workshop, we'd love to hear from you.
More Printing Bike adventures.
Most of us have been thinking about the first place we'd like to travel in a month or two when we can leave these city walls once more. I've been starting to plan another printing adventure on the brilliant bicycle that my good friend Robin Mather made back in the carefree world of 2015. Since then there have been several thousand miles worth of hills, and many a postcard printed and posted from the far flung hills of Britain, France and Germany.
The new adventure will be to cycle from library to library, 100 in total around the country and print 10,000 bookmarks. The idea is to work with writers and artists to create beautiful bookmarks. In doing so I'll cycle 1000 miles carrying the lovely little Adana press up and down many a hill (much like the one about which is on the England Scotland border). It's still in the planning (and funding) stage, so if you have a favourite library or any ideas for such a hair brained caper, please email me your thoughts.
Thank you for your ongoing support. Please visit the website to hear more about our projects and share the link for the shop with friends – there are many treasures to be found and it's a great way of supporting us. We hope to see you very soon.
