pinky winky doodle doodle dum dumm
July 11, 2018 12:05 pm Leave your thoughtsWhen a colleague recently offered Philippa six Enid Blyton editions from the 50s she jumped at the chance to take... View Article
Categories for typography
lost property
June 28, 2017 10:45 am Leave your thoughtsPhilippa would like to thank the gentleman at BABE 2017 who gave her the idea for this book… Lost &... View Article
greetings to nyc
May 26, 2017 6:51 pm Leave your thoughtsThis week we heard from Angie Butler who shared the good news that the letterpress animation made from LENvention 1 in 2013, of... View Article
type tells tales
May 8, 2017 4:32 pm Leave your thoughtsMany, many months ago we were approached by someone working for Steven Heller to see if we were interested in... View Article
blogging the blog
April 16, 2017 12:50 pm Leave your thoughtsEye magazine recently uploaded a post about Barrie’s Typographic Dante.The piece talks about the starting point for the project – which... View Article
the lure of the caseroom
March 14, 2017 5:44 pm Leave your thoughtsIn complete contrast to the beautiful and impressive exhibition of Barrie’s in Dublin, Philippa has been doing some small projects... View Article
dante in private
February 15, 2017 5:33 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Private View for the Typographic Dante took place at Dublin’s National Print Museum last Thursday.Brenda Dermody is a graphic designer, and... View Article
fond farewells
October 5, 2016 9:06 am Leave your thoughtsBy comparison to Barrie’s recent blog post and the nine year saga of Utopian Tales, the collaborative project between Philippa... View Article
utopia (at long last)
August 10, 2016 9:52 am Leave your thoughtsAfter more years than Barrie would like to admit to, Utopian Tales/Utopische Märchen is finally in print, and copies are... View Article
LENvention 4
June 30, 2016 6:21 pm Leave your thoughtsLENvention is an annual workshop for letterpress practitioners and was established by Angie Butler and Hazel Grainger in 2013. This... View Article