#28 Make great things again in 2025

The card is printed letterpress in gold ink on a Boston platen at our letterpress workshop HackingGutenberg. Set in 48p EDE caps, 24p Akzidenz Grotesk Halbfett and 9p Ludlow Garamond. I forgot to photograph/scan a good print before they had all been mailed, so the reproduction above doesn’t do it justice. While gold is fun to print letterpress, it doesn’t like being photographed.

After we moved from the very big (400sqm – 4000sq ft) workshop to a much smaller one (95sqm) right next door, Hacking Gutenberg is only slowly getting back to work. The website needs a total redesign – mainly because the photographs need to show the new space – and the cases of type are split between the studio space on the groundfloor and the cellar. We’ll have to decide between type – metal and wood – that we need frequently for workshops and all my favourite type that is too delicate, rare or weird for anybody else to touch, let alone use.

Originally, Spiekileaks was meant to be just for my private rumblings (I simply couldn’t resist the name …), the much older Spiekerblog was my original blog, and then there is Hacking Gutenberg, the shop and the workshop. All done at different times with different tools for different purposes. Every time I open the older blog, I will have forgotten how this particular system works. Perhaps time to consolidate? ★