As part of London Design Festival Greengaged recently ran a competition offering two lucky designers the opportunity to take part in a one day letterpress workshop, run by Alex Cooper and Ross Gridneff of (the aptly named) Workshop in Hackney… and Matt Mear, one of our print design team, was lucky enough to win!

Matt spent the day with fellow attendees working collaboratively to produce a two colour poster which will be printed in a limited edition of 500 and given away at the Crafting Mass Production event on September 24th. Attending the workshop alongside Matt were Natt Hunter (Airside), Anna Gerber, Sara De Bondt, Anna Fidalgo, Crispin Finn, Sanky Sankarayya (All of Us), Lawrence Zeegan and fellow competition winner Holly Webber.

Matt had this to say: ‘I really enjoyed the whole process and appreciated learning a new skill from experts in the field. From proofing, cutting, pasting, overlaying to making a print on the press, letterpressing by it’s very nature makes you slow down and really think about what you’re designing.’

Here’s Matt getting to grips with letterpress: