‘Presstival’, otherwise known as the annual open day of The Whittington Press, will take place on Saturday 1 September 2012, from 1pm at The Whittington Press, Whittington Court, Whittington, nr Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL54 4HF.
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Gentse Feesten. Monotype.
Besides the demonstration of an Intertype type-casting machine given by Alfred Biliet, we had one more special event - typecasting with Monotype. The Monotype Super Caster was operated by Patrick Goossens and our special guest Ed Donovan who came over from UK for a couple of days.
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Steamroller Printing Event. Gentse Feesten 2012
Gentse Feesten 2012
Alongside with activities at the printing department, we did a little giveaway to announce the upcoming events at DOK, organized by Topo Copy and MIAT museum.This bookmark was given to the visitors of the museum during the Gentse Feesten. Printed at the museum and cutted on Poirier cutting machine from 1900 operated by hand (not an easiest task I must say).
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Gentse Feesten. Poster n°2
Spent this weekend typesetting poster n°2. The poster should inform about steamroller printing event organized by the museum during the Gentse Feesten in collaboration with Topo Copy. The idea is to make a typographic poster in combination with a linocut illustration of steamroller (which is nearly finished by now).
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Gentse Feesten 2012. Intertype.
Alfred Biliet operating an Intertype hot metal caster.
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Gentse Feesten. Poster n°1
To announce various activities at the MIAT museum during the Gentse eesten I'm making a couple of posters. The first poster is typeset from wood and metal type and for the second one I will make a linocut. Here are some 'work in progress' pictures of the first poster and as you can see I still have a lot of work to do:)
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