Letterpress Workshops in Somerset
The resurgence of Letterpress over the last few decades has triggered a passionate respect for the craft of Typography & has reinforced its position in the visual arts. Letterpress has evolved as a natural ally to the graphic arts & identified itself as an exciting process to express ideas & an extraordinarily thorough process to examine language & typography.
As an antidote to the immediate — often dispensable nature of modern technology — the slow articulation of the technical side of Letterpress allows the designer to immerse themselves in the focus of the craft & revel in the simple joys of making.
Conceived & directed by leading typographic practitioner Mr Smith: Smith’s Rules is running a series of typographic & letterpress classes at the Bruton workshop. From April to October we offer one & two-day classes each month as well as two intense four-day Summer Schools.
The courses offer art directors, artists, designers, printmakers & students the opportunity to study typography & work closely with wood letter & metal type, letterpress materials & printing equipment.
Some documentation of the London Classes can be seen here.
The One-Day workshop is £200 per person
Saturdays Spring to Autumn 2025
Gift Vouchers for 2025 here
19 July
16 August
27 September
The Two-Day workshop is £350 per person
Fridays & Saturdays
Gift Vouchers for 2025 here
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15/16 August
12/13 September
3/4 October
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Late Summer School
Tuesday 16 — Friday 19 September 2025
The Summer Schools are £700 per person
BOOK & PAY
[Re] Covering — a Typo/Graphic Intervention
October 2025
[Re] covering
a Typo/Graphic Intervention
Upstairs at Bailey Hill Bookshop
Castle Carey / Somerset
Launching in the bookshop in late October 2025
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some lists
some categories
some covers
some re ordering
some re: covering
some type
some typography
some printing
Begun in earnest in the summer of 2024 the modest idea of re covering and re designing some second hand books evolved into a substantial systematic re categorising & re wrapping of every book upstairs at the Bailey Hill Bookshop in Castle Carey.
To allow the opportunity to make this an effective, interesting & thorough intervention, we would need to re design, re print and re wrap 80 dust jackets. The process is underway the substantial amount of work involved will take some time to complete — launching in the bookshop in late October 2025.
*Something possessing a value or beauty that is not immediately apparent, which therefore has received far less recognition than it deserves.
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