TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COUNTER…
DESIGN STUDIO MEETS LETTERPRESS WORKSHOP
As a complement to our brand work at Counter Studio, we also run The Counter Press: a typographic workshop focussing on traditional hand set letterpress typography with a contemporary approach to design. It’s an opportunity for us to experiment, question and explore creatively away from the constraints of client briefs and timelines by creating limited edition posters, broadsides, newspapers and books. These explorations have always inspired and informed our design work once we’re at the studio side of things, a creative virtuous circle.
Almost since we started Counter Studio, the design studio and the letterpress workshop have been in separate locations – and with Covid and a relocation west, we’ve actually been largely separated from the workshop for the best part of two years. But now, after some pretty heavy lifting and a lot of work, the two are finally together in the same place in our new purpose built studio workshop, located between the beautiful cities of Bristol and Bath. This means we can work seamlessly between the two spaces, moving from pixel perfect precision to precision proofing presses as we need. And as far as we know, it means we’re the only branding agency with a built-in fully fledged letterpress workshop.
It also means we can finally begin to run letterpress workshops again (Covid permitting, of course…) for creative teams that want to get off the computer and get ink under their fingernails. Drop us a line at workshops@thecounterpress.co.uk to find out more.
