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ST Y L E N O W.
CLOCKWISE FROM
LEFT Nick applies ink
to the type on the bed
of the press; Nick and
Ellen in their Bristol-
based workshop;
a coloured layer is
added to a poster.
started making journeys on my Mainz in Germany, the place
bicycle about 10 years ago and where Johannes Gutenberg
I began to record the stories invented printing with
of people that I met along the moveable type in 1450.
way; their work and their lives.
I’m really excited as we’ve just What has been the proudest
printed a book about one of my moment of your career so far?
journeys on a printing press Two things really. One is the ever done. In January, I’m
bicycle from Land’s End to pride that I have in Ellen and exhibiting at the Devon Guild
John O’Groats. It’s called watching her become an of Cra"smen in Bovey Tracey,
Journeyman and tells the story amazing le!erpress printer showcasing the stories of other
of makers I met along the way. over the past six years – I’m makers in pictures and audio.
sure she will print now for the It will be quite a moment for
Tell us more about the rest of her life. The second is me. I never intended to set this
le!erpress bicycle telling the stories of the place up or to become a
It came about because a friend makers that I’ve met through le!erpress printer, but it’s
and I were intrigued as to my journeys on the bicycle. happened and I take it one
whether you could put a step at a time.
printing press on the back of a Any future plans?
bike. He made the bicycle and Everything we do, we try and Discover Nick and Ellen’s work at
we cycled from Bristol to make it the best thing we have thele!erpresscollective.org
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