We've been busy recreating the billings poster that inspired John Lennon to write Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite for the Sgt Pepper album. Peter Dean, who commissioned the print, brought us a photograph of Lennon standing next to the poster, from which we were able to match our types – wherever possible – to those used in the original. The result is a thing of lovingly-recreated beauty.

Taking inspiration from the Olympic Committee’s strict rules regarding the use of words relating to this summer's Games, we have been setting the recent participants of our workshops an Elephant in the Room project to describe the indescribable. Some of the groups' innovative outcomes will be on display at The Art of Winning exhibition at Boxpark in Shoreditch from 5th July.

We've been working with pupils from Holy Trinity Primary School in Hackney and poet Adisa on a project about the appreciation of libraries. The pupils, who were 10 years old, showed amazing proficiency at type setting and were thrilled to see the words they had written published by their own hands. The prints will be displayed in libraries across the borough until the end of the summer.

One of the many projects that has been keeping the press busy lately is coming to fruition: <tangible txts> is an exhibition of text message-inspired letterpress prints and homewares. It has been organised by Live In Print, a group set up by graphic designers Christian Holland & Josh Riley, internet developer Darren Clark and New North Press' founder Graham Bignell.

We are thrilled to have prototype wood blocks for a new ornamented typeface, courtesy of Nigel Bents' BA Graphic Design Communication students at Chelsea College of Art & Design. The font has already been employed in a poster edition by our talented placement student, Kaia Moore from Mossbourne Academy in Hackney. I Think of You in Colours That Don't Exist is available from our online shop.

Our program of monthly Introduction to Letterpress workshops began this month with an enthusiastic group of partakers who produced a great collaborative print on the subject of an upcoming global sporting event, with the considerable restriction of adhering to the stringent brand guidelines forbidding almost all words relating to the occasion.

We are proud to announce the completion of Reverting to Type Portfolio 1: Ten typographic collaborations, featuring work from Phil Baines, Vikram Seth, Fraser Muggeridge Studio, David Pearson, Catherine Dixon, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Stevey Scullion, Beatrice Bless, OPX Design
and Peter Ashton Jones.

We are currently exhibiting in Imaginary Menargerie, a show exploring language's tongue-tripping and unpronounceable labyrinths at text/gallery. In the run-up to Christmas we will also be taking part in an interior-themed group show, Hatchet and Helve at Standpoint Gallery (where Reverting to Type was held this time last year). And finally, congratulations to design agency OPX who have won an ISTD award for the Look Mum No Hands! corporate branding designed with a font from our type library.