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Random Acts of Bookcraft. Fine Feats of Letterpress. Custom albums, guest books and notebooks. Just ask me.

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Recent commission. Client is a photographer mate who loves his Leica and takes photos of brutalist architecture. No clues there then. That's a Leica M9 on the front in cloth inlay and some… instagram.com/p/BrnjLWVB-Uv/…

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Treated myself on Friday to a day out in that there London. After an aperitif of the fascinating I Object exhibition curated by Ian Hislop at The British Museum, it was next to the Anglo… instagram.com/p/BsTieNVB1gz/…

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Printing some greetings cards using lovely @lymebaypress fluorescent inks and thought I'd make my own sunflower first. #letterpress #vintageprint #vintage #letterpressprinting @ Bradford… instagram.com/p/BuEczeZh9ST/…

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The sewn boards book block I posted last week became a bespoke Travel Journal gift for my old mate John - , companion around Northern India in the 1980s, Glastonbury stewarding and… instagram.com/p/BuJmz1fhKDF/…

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There's nothing better than finding a couple of nice looking fabrics and turning them into covers for notebooks. I am very selective about what I use and look for fairly classy repeating… instagram.com/p/Bu4FVzflhDC/…

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Recent commission. Somebody somewhere is as we speak filling up these beauties with thoughts, doodles and illustrations on a daily basis. You know who you are. Paper is the 1937 Harold… instagram.com/p/Bu6lHeXlh8R/…

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Got featured in Bath Life last week. #shoplocal #bradfordonavon #craftbusiness #impostersyndrome #bookcraft #bookbinding @ Bradford on Avon instagram.com/p/BvMlxFShZeO/…

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Catching up on posting about stuff I've made recently. Here's a clamshell box to house a first edition of The Observer's Book of Cacti made as a birthday present for my mate Robin who, when he's not restoring lost… instagram.com/p/ByN7zIzBOWR/…

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Recent commission. Some Save the Dates. Client was uber fussy. Intensive and prolonged negotiations over font choice (at least 14 variations tried), font styles (thank God for small caps), illustration (who draws a… instagram.com/p/BybCdKphRUd/…

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Not been posting much product recently, what with all these legends and holidays so here's something I've been working on recently. Insta albums - specially designed retro looking old school photo albums to organise… instagram.com/p/Bz-uW50BLCF/…

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More new stuff. Letterpress Notecards. Mixture of type and linocuts. Available singly or in a set of five in a little handmade box. Also spent far too long designing a cloth covered display case for them that showed… instagram.com/p/B0A_ZciBrJE/…

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Great evening thanks to Toppings Bath listening to my school contemporary Stephen Morris talk about his early days in Macc joining the embryonic Joy Division and how Manchester gig-going formed his musical… instagram.com/p/B0D2S_XBbnd/…

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Finally got round to joining the @bpsnetuk Publishing Group after promising to do so for far too long and now all this wonderfully random letterpress stuff keeps arriving through the post. Mine's the one on the left… instagram.com/p/B0gh49aBNUd/…

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Really pleased to find four of my photos being exhibited in @arnolfiniarts alongside those of Martin Parr (well…in the same room…plus others of course). I took part in the St Paul's Carnival Popup event and you can… instagram.com/p/B08ziD7BBXU/…

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Bit late to the party on this one, but now I'm back posting, thought I'd catch up with a couple of exhibition thingies I've been involved in this summer. First off is the wonderful Show of Hands - an exhibition of… instagram.com/p/B3mliQkBgzk/…

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Another exhibitiony thingy I got involved in. My first very faltering attempts at something approaching a "designer binding". The bookbinding group I am part of were tasked last year to have a go at coming up with a… instagram.com/p/B3w2MukBiHX/…

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Here's a commission made just before Christmas. It was a follow up to the Leica notebook I made a year ago for a mate who's also into simple and classic design and one of his heroes is Dieter Rams, the influential… instagram.com/p/B7BYwLJhY38/…

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Thought I'd use the time afforded by the lockdown to show a llittle love to this otherwise neglected gem. It's a Charlton Cropper Improved Peerless Number 6670 with a platen that takes an 8x5 chase and Adana rollers.… instagram.com/p/B-en5brBSld/…

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So, got some of that printin' done this week. This is a piece I'd been planning in my head to submit to the BPS Publishing Group back in April but what with one pandemic and another, never got to it until now. Cut… instagram.com/p/CAkhApjBE-s/…