Programme · Studio Diploma
Print & Type
In short
- Length
- 2 years, full time
- Next intake
- September 2026
- Fee per year
- £7,800
- Studio
- The print shed
- Group size
- 12 students
Two etching presses, a Vandercook proofing press, a wall of wood type and a screen room. You learn every process by hand before you decide which one is yours.
What you will do
- Relief
Lino and woodcut, from the first cut to an edition of thirty that matches.
- Intaglio
Hard ground, soft ground, aquatint. The press is heavy and the results are slow.
- Screen
Stencils, photo emulsion and printing on paper, cloth and the odd wall.
- Type
Setting metal and wood type by hand, then a book printed and bound in the studio.
Your tutor · Head of Print & Type
Yusuf Achterberg
Letterpress printer and publisher of small, loud books. Has ink under every nail.
“Print thirty. The twenty-ninth is the one you will keep.”
From this studio
Applications open
Pin your work up with us
Applications for September close on 30 April. Send a few images of what you make, then come in for a conversation.
