with MAKE Southwest Maker Member Emma Hogbin, Princetown Press
Monday 2 November 2026, 10am - 11am
FREE
Venue: Online / Broadcast
Suitable for: Ages 11 - 19
Book your tickets: www.futuresforall.org
Discover how traditional craft can become a career with maker Emma Hogbin of Princetown Press. Explore freelance creative work, running a craft business and the art of letterpress printing through a live demonstration.
Ever wondered how crafting can become a career? Join Emma Hogbin, Maker and Owner of Princetown Press, for a behind-the-scenes look at the world of letterpress printing and traditional craft.
Emma will share her journey as a freelance maker, exploring what it’s like to build a creative career, run your own business and turn a passion for craft into a living. There will be a live demonstration so you can see what goes into creating handmade prints. Explore why skills like letterpress are at risk of disappearing and why preserving traditional crafts is so important.
NOTE: MAKE Southwest are advertising this event in partnership with Futures for All for national Creative Careers month. Bookings are placed and managed through Futures for All.
Creative Careers Month - November 2026
The Creative Industries are one of the UK’s fastest-growing sectors, offering stable and rewarding careers that go far beyond the stage or screen. Behind every game, film, TV show or app are thousands of professionals with a wide range of skills - from problem-solving and organisation to design, technology and communication.
Discover Creative Careers helps young people from all walks of life, learn about these roles and the many accessible routes into the sector - from local college courses, to apprenticeships and work experience.
Discover creative careers that are not only exciting, but secure and achievable.
Encourage young people you know to explore where their interests could lead by clicking this link: Discover Creative Careers.
About Princetown Press
The history of the world is captured below our feet. From undisturbed soil and the beds of lakes, palaeoecologists retrieve microscopic records of bygone eras. On Dartmoor, the story of the land is told at the scale of people and the story is not always aligned with the scientific findings. Princetown Press makes objects from that gap: letterpress printed, botanically inked, rooted in the moor we live and work on.
Emma Hogbin and Jon Palmer bring degrees in Environmental Science and Sustainable Product and Furniture Design to a practice that most people arrive at through the printing trade. The botanical inks are foraged from the sites the work documents; the text is printed in traditional synthetic letterpress ink, a deliberate contrast between the permanent and the fugitive. The text is hand-set, character by character, on presses that once served the newspaper industry. Our oldest press, Betty, is cast iron powered by treadle and built in Halifax in 1910. The presses are not museum pieces, they are an integral part of our business.