Projects
Since the Smallprint Company launched in 2013 we have had the opportunity to work with some amazing organisations. With our knowledge and experience in printmaking, bookbinding and especially letterpress we have been developing creative workshops that have added value to a variety of projects and events.
We are always happy to discuss ways that we can adapt our workshops to fit a particular event and audience. These can be designed to be short drop-in style workshops or more interactive sessions that can be developed over several days/weeks.
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- Pirate Wanted Posters
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- Milford, Treacle City poster
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- The Ominous Times
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- Milford, Treacle City poster
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- Pirate Wanted Poster
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- The Ominous Times
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- Made by Me Poster for the Museum of Making, Derby
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- Manchester Fringe Festival
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- Derby Mini Maker Faire
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- Belper Games
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- Assemble, at the Museum of Making, Derby
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- The Ominous Times
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- Printing the Ominous Times at the National Justice Museum
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- Pirate Posters! Furthest From The Sea, 2018
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- Pirate Posters! Furthest From The Sea, 2018
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- Pirate Posters! Furthest From The Sea, 2018
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- We Bleed Black and White print
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- Derby: 300 Years of Making
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- We Are Derby fine art print
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- Office for Revised Futures, part of Format Festival 2019
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- DMMF sign
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- Industrial Heritage at Nottingham Industrial Museum
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- Composition
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- Shakespeare: Sonnet XLVIII
Who we have worked with
Level Centre Youth Collective workshops - 2024
We worked with the Level Centre Youth Collective exploring printmaking through letterpress and mono-printing. The was eventually displayed as an exhibition at Bakewell Old House Museum.
"LEVEL Centre Youth Collective is a creative group for young people who are neurodivergent, have autism or ADHD. ‘Water and Wellbeing’ is a two-year funded programme supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The LEVEL Centre Youth Collective are exploring local Derbyshire Dales heritage, and celebrating traditional craftsmanship in their own thoroughly modern way."
https://levelcentre.com/cows-are-wet/
Kelham Island Museum - Stephenson Blake consultation workshops 2024
In 2024 we were invited to run a couple of pop-up print sessions as part of Sheffield Museums consultation on the proposed relocation of the Stephenson Blake collection to Sheffield.
MAD Fest at Littleover Community School
In 2023 and 2024 we ran workshops with Littleover Community School in partnership with MAD//fest and the. You can read more here.
National Justice Museum (Nottingham) - Ominous Times broadsheet workshops
The 'Ominous Times' is a broadsheet style newspaper where participants can get their name in the headlines. Using our collection of Victorian era fonts and wood engravings we are able to create an authentic design that people can take away with them.
Wilderness Manifesto - Towards an Urban Commons Charter 2020
Working with Keele University we helped to develop a Manifesto poster and Urban Commons Charter leaflet as part Urban Wilderness CIC.
Energetic/Utopia 'Stories of Change' - 2016
In 2016 we were invited to run a letterpress printing workshop as part of 'Stories of Change'. These were at The Museum of Making, Derby, and then a further workshop at Somerset House, London.
Book Barge workshop - 2014
A letterpress workshop on a barge. This has to be one of the most unusual of locations for a workshop but was great fun. Fing out more about the Book Barge and Sarah Henshaw.
Royal Shakespeare Company - 2016
A pop up letterpress poster workshop at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Bodleian Library
Extracts from Moby Dick - 2019
Libraries and literary institutions around the world in 2019 marked 200 years since Herman Melville’s birth with readings and conferences appreciating his work. At Bodleian Special Collections we took the opportunity to call again on letterpress printers around the world, who provided Shakespeare’s Sonnets in 2016, to celebrate Melville in similar fashion.
Shakespeare's Sonnets - 2016
In 2016 contributions of individual sonnets by Shakespeare, whether in English or in translation, were welcomed from printers, created by hand, using any means of relief printing. Selected submissions, forming at least one complete collection of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, was added to the Bodleian’s permanent collection.
Katie Smith artist
Luddite poster
Furthest From the Sea - 2018, 2019,
Wanted Posters - This has been a long running collaboration with Furthest From the Sea.
They host an annual Pirate themed event with like music and workshops across the weekend. We create a 'Wanted Poster' that participants can customise with their own name. We use original moveable letterpress type to give the posters a really authentic feel. Family friendly inky fun.
Manchester Fringe - 2019
Organised by Furthest From the Sea, we produced a commerative poster for a live music and performance event held at The Kings Arms, Salford
Milford Church Beam Arts workshop - 2019 Broadsheet
Exploring the local heritage of Milford, Derbyshire we produced a letterpress poster around the town's nick name 'Treacle City'
Derby Museums -
Saturday Art Club
Introduction to letterpress
Assemble
Derby Mini Maker Faire - 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
Art Gallery - Make It session 2016
World Cultures Sharing Day - 2018
Launch event - Museum of Making
Meet the Maker - Museum of Making 2016
Nottingham Industrial Museum workshop - 2017
A pop up workshop using the Nottingham Industrial Museums Albion press.
Chesterfield College - 2018
H&M new shop launch event
Gallery Top - exhibition launch workshop
Winterbourne House Birmingham University - consultancy 2019-2020
Haddon Hall - workshop print 2015
Derby Book Festival - 2015/2016/2018
Derby Poetry Festival
Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum, Lichfield - Workshop
A pop up workshop printing postcards with some of Samuel Johnson's original dictionary definitions.