Alphabet of Opportunity: Pop Press Hand Printed Shop, St James Street (and order online!)

Featured image: Pop Print Hand Press

Nottingham and Newcastle fire many fantastic careers: they’re similar, with a heritage that just won’t shut up. Both cities have a strong and creative industrial history, encouraging insightful experimentation because there’s a respect for people and the past that’s challenging yet respectful.
As you may know, Nottingham is the Unesco City of Literature, let’s not forget though, it’s the to-ing and fro-ing across the city and the world that has given us this imprimatur.

Trained at Newcastle in bespoke print design, Ming and Steve went straight into making and selling beautiful hand printed works. The course and city did more than enable them to understand their profession but made them realise that there are many different routes to understanding why they loved design. Steve took further training in electronic publishing and Ming trained as a dietician.

Moving to Nottingham with children, the dream of creating a community hub for traditional printing was something they privately worked towards, doing Illustration Fairs  

The first living museum of Illustration, the House of Illustration opened in 2014 in London.

The chicken and the egg of whether it is all the dreams and imaginations and manifestations of literary wonder in everyday life here that lead to lovely realisations like Ming and Steve’s (Chungand Dunn’s), Pop Press on St James Street anyway or whether the sunrise of Unesco status has changed everything in Nottingham forever is up to you to decide.

Their shop is my dream of great 21st century commerce on the John Lewis  model. Fantastic offer in the store combined with online!)

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