The Salvage Press is the imprint of artist & designer Jamie Murphy. Graduating with an honours degree in The History of Art & Design and Visual Communication (NCAD, 2006), he spent several years working on his own and with the design studios of others before completing his MA in Design (NCAD, 2012). Following this he moved to the UK where he worked with Justin Knopp at the newly established letterpress workshop, Typoretum. Returning to Ireland he worked as an understudy to master printer Seán Sills in Distillers Press at the National College of Art & Design. He began as Designer in Residence there in 2013 before being appointed Printer in 2015. His focus with students is on typographic research and experimentation. Through collaboration, The Salvage Press works with creatives from many disciplines producing projects which are mainly of Irish interest. Jamie's award winning books reside in private, public and institutional collections across the globe.
Awards
Irish Creative Advertising and Design Awards (Dublin, 2019, 2021)
Institute of Designers in Ireland (Dublin, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020)
The One Show (New York, 2020)
D&AD Awards (London, 2020)
Epica Awards (Paris, 2019)
Clio Awards (New York, 2019)
Cannes Lions (Cannes, 2019)
100 Archive of Irish Graphic Design (Dublin, 2012—2019)
The Type Directors Club (New York, 2018)
The Fine Press Book Association (Oxford, 2015, 2018)
The British Book Design & Production Awards (London, 2017)
The Irish Print Awards (Dublin, 2013)
The Royal Dublin Society Print Award (Dublin, 2012)
The National University of Ireland Art & Design Prize (Dublin, 2012)
Collaborators
Frances Breen (calligrapher)
Simon Brett (wood engraver)
Andrew Carpenter (scholar)
Steve Cole (scholar)
Ruairi Conaty (assistant)
Guy Cresswell (assistant)
Dorothy Cross (artist)
Tom Duffy (bookbinder)
James Earley (artist)
Elizabeth Ellis (printer)
Brian Fitzgerald (printmaker)
John FitzGerald (author)
Anne Fogarty (scholar)
Conor Foran (assistant)
Rainer Gerstenberg (type founder)
Mike Gibbs (paper maker)
Nick Gill (type founder)
Rich Gilligan (photographer)
Stanley Gontarski (scholar)
Lisa Griffith (scholar)
Kate Holland (bookbinder)
Jordan Huysmanns (assistant)
Craig Jensen (bookbinder)
Justin Knopp (printer)
Pavels Lavrinovics (assistant)
Jemma Lewis (paper marbler)
Brian Maguire (artist)
Alice Maher (artist)
David Marshall (printer)
Phelim McGovern (assistant)
Niamh McNally (assistant)
Jordan McQuaid (printer)
Laura Murphy (compositor)
Annemarie Ní Churreáin (author)
Doireann Ní Ghríofa (author)
Suzannah O’Reilly (printmaker)
David O'Kane (artist)
Sarah O'Neill (assistant)
Tim O'Neill (calligrapher)
Max Phillips (type designer)
Mary Plunkett (printer)
Robert Pratley (printer)
David Rooney (illustrator)
Louis Scully (assistant)
Madison Shackel-York (illustrator)
Sean Sills (printer)
Michael Simpson (assistant)
Michael Smith (author)
Gerard Smyth (author)
Haein Song (bookbinder)
Eleanor Swan (ceramicist)
Bobby Tannam (type designer)
Colm Tóibín (author)
Donald Teskey (artist)
Jessica Traynor (author)
Velké Losiny Mill (paper makers)
Rachel Ward-Sale (bookbinder)
Barbara Wilson (hand photo printer)
Neil Winter (type founder)
Collections
National Irish Visual Arts Library, Dublin
National Library of Ireland, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin
Yale University, Connecticut
Áras an Uchtarán, Dublin
Arizona State University, Temple
Auburn University, Alabama
Bank Of Ireland, Dublin
Boston Athenaeum
Boston College
Boston University
Buffalo University, New York
Codex Foundation, California
Columbia University, New York
Crawford Gallery of Art, Cork
Dublin City Library
Edward Worth Library, Dublin
Emory University, Atlanta
Florida State University, Tallahassee
Glucksman, Cork
Grolier Club, New York
Harry Ransom Centre, Austin
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Health Service Executive, Dublin
Indiana University, Bloomington
Keough-Naughton Institute, Dublin
Letterform Archive, San Francisco
London Centre for Book Arts
Library of Congress, Washington
Marsh’s Library, Dublin
National Print Museum, Dublin
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
National University of Ireland, Dublin
National University of Ireland, Galway
Newberry Library, Chicago
Northwestern University, Chicago
Office of An Taoiseach, Dublin
Princeton University, New Jersey
San Francisco Centre for the Book
San Francisco Public Library
Stanford University, California
Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania
Texas A&M University, College Station
The Bodleian Library, Oxford
The British Library, London
The Getty Research Institute, California
The Typographic Hub, Birmingham
University College, Dublin
University College, Cork
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of East Anglia, Norwich
University of Manchester
University of Miami
University of North Carolina
University of Notre Dame
University of Otago, Dunedin
Washington University in St. Louis
Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg