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Industrial Heritage at Nottingham Industrial Museum

Nottingham Industrial Museum

Nottingham Industrial Museum The Smallprint Co. has been working recently with Nottingham Industrial Museum in a small way, in offering advice and support on their Albion and Cropper presses, which…

Derby Book Festival 2017

Derby Book Festival 2017 We’re very proud to announce that we’re partnering the Derby Book Festival this year with a programme of events related to all things bookish! The Derby…

Wood Engravings by Rob Chapman

Working with illustrator Rob Chapman

Working with illustrator Rob Chapman Many of you will already be familiar with the work of artist and illustrator Rob Chapman through our Herb Garden and Farmyard greetings card collections.…

Reading With Mother Print

National Stationery Week 2017 – Why handwriting and letterpress go hand in hand

National Stationery Week 2017 Why handwriting and letterpress go hand in hand Here at The Smallprint Company we love letterpress, but we also love stationery. We take great pride in…

Farhad Berahman, photographer

Full Swing: Format Festival 2017

Full Swing: Format Festival 2017 It’s been a very busy few weeks for The Smallprint Co, working on commissions, a business trip to the beautiful city of Prague and hosting…

Format Festival 2017 – Habitat

The Smallprint Co is a host venue for this year’s international photography event, Format Festival

Coptic Binding Workshop

Bookbinding workshops in The Creative Space

Bookbinding workshops in The Creative Space NEW for 2017! Beginners Bookbinding workshops Our Beginners Bookbinding workshops are run once a month on a Saturday afternoon and are already proving popular.…

Derby Makers Project with Daniel Dytrych

Derby Makers Project At the end of last year we welcomed Daniel Dytrych to the studio for a photographic interview that is featured in his latest project, the Derby Makers Project. Dan’s…

Shakespeare: Sonnet XLVIII Letterpress Composition

The Bodleian Library and Shakespeare

The Bodleian Library and Shakespeare Earlier this year the Bodleian Libraries’ Centre for the Study of the Book announced its ‘Sonnets 2016’ project to commemorate the 400th year since the…

Mail Art Project

Mail Art Project We have a call out for a new Mail Art project with a nice long deadline (so don’t panic!). Based upon the new dictionary definition ‘post-truth’, we…

Anna Johnson, Seventy Years

Anna Johnson, Seventy Years The Smallprint Co. is pleased to bring Seventy Years by Anna Johnson (Printmaker) to The Gallery, kickstarting our exciting exhibitions programme for 2017. The exhibition shows self portraits by…

The Gallery 2017

  The Gallery 2017 We’re looking forward to announcing a full schedule of exhibitions to run throughout 2017 in The Gallery, following on from Rob Chapman’s Wood Engravings. The intention…