Piccolo Press was delighted to be chosen by Country Life as a showpiece for their article “Printing that’s a cut above” in their magazine of 15 August. With four pictures of Piccolo’s work shown in full colour, plus an excellent description of the engraving and die-stamping process, the article by Jonathan Self, gave a very good synopsis […]

It has been surprisingly difficult to get really clear artwork of the “Dolphin” pin, worn with great pride by submariners in the United States Navy.  But our wonderful skilled hand engraver has produced a beautiful steel die, with all the detail and sculpture needed to allow us to die stamp stationery of the highest quality. 

Piccolo has recently printed two A5 posters, on 100% cotton “Somerset” . THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE are the wonderful words of Beatrice Ward, typographer to the Monotype Corporation about the unique importance of printing to civilisation, and set as a broadsheet in 1932, using Eric Gill’s Perpetua typeface. (The words are cast in bronze

Piccolo Press is being kept very busy by the many orders coming through from British Embassies for receptions to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen. Whilst some of these events combine the annual Queen’s Birthday Party (QBP), we are seeing many additional receptions to celebrate this her Diamond Jubilee Year.  We are

A recent design of round business cards, printed by letterpress has been a huge success with a local Antiques Company, who have now followed up with a second order. The cards are printed on a 750gsm white card and then die cut to 75mm in diameter. The cards are small enough to be carried in

As a result of a request from a school in Aberdeenshire, Piccolo Press has produced some special bookplates to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen.  The bookplates are in full colour with the Diamond Jubilee Logo and are printed onto a peel back sticky paper.  It is suggested that these will make

Since Piccolo Press appeared in the FT Magazine issue of January 7th, we have inundated with requests for Correspondence Cards and lined tissue envelopes.  These items of stationery are already a best seller and we have a gallery of cards within our “Personal” section on our web site.

With the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee to celebrate this year,  Piccolo Press has commissioned a special hand engraved steel die to print/diestamp the Jubilee Logo in burnished gold. The die was hand engraved by an ex Engraver to the Bank of England. Piccolo Press is also able to produce the full colour version of the Jubilee

Best wishes to all for New Year and 2012. Whilst we are answering your emails, the Press Room does not start again until Thursday 5th January. To show you what the Piccolo Printshop looks when put to bed for the holiday I have posted a picture of the general workshop, and one of the bank

I have chosen, as invitation card of the month, one we produced for Mr Dominic Reid, OBE, who was celebrating his role as Pagentmaster of the Lord Mayor’s Show for twenty years.An intricate die had to be hand engraved in steel, incorporating the Lord Mayor’s Carriage and Heraldic items.  There were very fine lines on