The People Powered Press is the largest letterpress printing press of its kind in the world. The team are printing a giant Christmas mural, with a mental health focus, to go up on the Big Mural Wall in the garden of Salts Works, facing the (very busy) Saltaire Road – and they'd like your help.

Drop in during the afternoon to have a go yourself – no need to book, stay as long as you like, children very welcome – and find out why poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan described using the People Powered Press as "a joyful experience."

The photo below, featuring a poem written for this year's Saltaire Festival, will give you an idea of the kind of scale we're talking about!

Tutor(s): 
Oli Bentley
Oli Bentley has worked as a graphic designer since he set up Split whilst a music student in 2007, opening the studio of the same name 3 years later. He works extensively in the music, arts and non-profit sectors, also creating self initiated work as a designer/graphic artist, letterpress printer and type designer. Born from his award-winning exhibition and book, These Northern Types, Oli is the founder of the People Powered Press and designed its large steel typeface — Graft. More recently he has created the Brico type system in collaboration with Anthony Burrill and Thomas Mayo — created to work with community groups on large-scale murals and so that anyone might share in the joy of type designing at a massive scale.
http://www.split.co.uk