PRIMARY RESEARCH IDEAS - COP

For my context of practice project I will need to contact various different people in order to get their views on what relevance letter press has to graphic design in today's society and the reasons why they use the age old hands on method. I hope by doing this research it will help to get a few different opinions for people that use it for different reasons.

Here are a few I have come across. These are just a selection out of a larger list of institutions and printers etc.

Institutions who teach letter press

Camberwell College : http://www.camberwellpress.org
Leeds College of Art : http://www.leeds-art.ac.uk/ 
Central st Martins : http://www.arts.ac.uk/csm/
The Manchester School of Art : http://www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/resources/print/letterpress/

Letterpress workshops / studios

DO YOU PUNCTUATE - Leeds : http://www.doyoupunctuate.com/ 
THE PRINT PROJECT - Bradford : Nick http://theprintproject.co.uk/
ARTCADIA LETTER PRESS - Shrewsbury : http://www.artcadia.co.uk
GLASGOW PRESS - Glasgow : http://glasgowpress.co.uk/
GENERATION PRESS - Brighton : http://generationpress.co.uk/
FIRE CRACKER PRESS - St Louis : http://www.firecrackerpress.com/  
DOWNEY & CO - http://www.downey.co.uk/

Graphic Designers 

Kerr Vernon: http://www.kerrvernon.co.uk/
Anthony Burrill : http://www.anthonyburrill.com/ 

Helen Ingham : http://www.hi-artz.co.uk/


I think I will talk to amber about anyone else that she might recommend to help me with my research. I want to try and interview graphic designers who regularly produce letter pressed work and find out the reasons they do this and also their views on letter press in the 21st century.

From here I need to write up interview / questionnaires in order to send off to each of the organizations on my list. I also would like to organize some kind of studio visit to get photos and also see how things are done etc. This will be perfect for my research.