Workshop
PROGRAMME
GET YOUR
HANDS DIRTY
GET YOUR
HANDS DIRTY
Have you forgotten what it feels like to use your hands? Step away from the screen and into our inky Brunswick East studio, where you’ll rediscover what it feels like to create something that can’t be undone, edited or deleted.
Our workshops are designed for four to eight people, so you can team up with your studio or join up with friends for a day of creativity, collaboration and experimentation in our inky Brunswick East studio.
Slow down for the day, print on our incredible antique machinery and take home a set of posters or notebooks that you will letterpress print yourself.
Wood Type Poster Edition Workshop
- Explore our antique collection of wood type and create your own compositions, manifestos or overprinting experiments on our hand-fed press.
During this letterpress workshop we’ll guide you through composing, setting up and letterpress printing century-old wood type on our hand-fed Asbern Proof Press, circa 1960.
- Letterpress print up to 100 prints
- Create multiple wood type compositions
- Choose one or two Pantone ink colours
- Size: 350 x 500mm (or smaller)
- Paper: Wild 300gsm (35% cotton)
Participants: Ideally 4–8 people
Time: 3–4 hours
Day: Weekdays preferred, weekends subject to availability.
Location: 71 Nicholson St, Brunswick East, Melbourne
Modern Letterpress Poster Edition Workshop
- Craft your own limited edition prints with a modern twist on traditional letterpress.
We’ll transform your artwork into a custom plate and guide you through the inky, hands-on process of bringing each piece to life on our hand-fed Asbern Proof Press (circa 1960), one print at a time.
- Letterpress print up to 100 prints
- One Pantone colour
- Artwork size: 330 x 482mm (one kind of artwork per workshop)
- Paper size: 350 x 500mm (or smaller)
- Paper: Wild 300gsm (35% cotton)
Participants: Ideally 4–8 people
Time: 3–4 hours
Day: Weekdays preferred, weekends subject to availability.
Location: 71 Nicholson St, Brunswick East, Melbourne
Custom Letterpress Notebook Workshop
- Create your own limited edition notebooks, with covers beautifully letterpress printed in vintage wood type or your custom artwork.
In this workshop, we’ll letterpress print the covers either our hand-fed Asbern Proof Press, circa 1960, or our hand-fed and foot-treadled Chandler & Price, which over 100 years old. Then you’ll hand-collate the pages while we carefully sew and trim each notebook to size. Finish them off with a satisfying turn on our round-cornering machine for that final, tactile touch.
- 60 notebooks with 64 internal pages
- Cover letterpress printed in one Pantone colour
- Notebook size: 130 x 185mm
- Cover paper: Colorplan 270gsm
- Internal paper: Revive Laser 100gsm (100% recycled post-consumer waste, carbon neutral and Australian made) with offset printed dots, lines or blank
Participants: Ideally 4–8 people
Time: 5–6 hours
Day: Weekdays preferred, weekends subject to availability.
Location: 71 Nicholson St, Brunswick East, Melbourne
Linocut & Letterpress Workshop
This beginner friendly workshop will introduce you to the craft of linocut and letterpress printing techniques.
You’ll carve an ‘Illuminated Letter’ of your choosing and letterpress print it in two colors using a reduction technique.
No linocut, design or print experience is necessary, this workshop is created for beginners who have a keen interest in the world of typography, linocutting and letterpress printing.
During the first day of the workshop we will explore different design options, walk through how to transfer your design to the lino and begin carving.
Once your carving is finished, we’ll guide you through setting up and letterpress printing the first colour on our hundred year old Chandler & Price printing presses.