Strange Types & Odd Sorts

I shot the cover for this wonderful new publication from Fighting Words in collaboration with the National Print Museum Ireland.

A team of Fighting Words mentors worked with volunteer compositors and printers from the National Print Museum to document memories of lives lived in apprenticeships, jobbing houses, newspapers, binderies, and a now utterly transformed world of printing.

The cover shot is made up of wood block type set on compositing sticks, which was then set in a form and placed on a Vandercook press to print the dust jacket for the publication.

The book was designed by Philip Elliot, with Mary Plunkett designing and setting the type for the cover.
For more information about the project and to buy a copy please visit; National Print Museum