After visiting the Paper mill Herisem we headed to the National Bank museum in Brussels. Founded in 1982 the museum has an impressive collection of numismatic items, documents, books etc.
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Letterproeftuin workshop
Graphic Design Festival Breda (NL) is a biannual festival taking place from 19 to 23 of September. The program of the festival is quite broad, it is a mix of exhibitions, lectures, workshops, urban interventions and parties. And if you want to get your hands dirty you can take part in a traveling letterpress workshop organized by Letterproeftuin.
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Out of print
"Out of Print" is an interactive installation which will run from 17-23 september as a part of Brompton Design District and London Design Festival 2012. The project, created by a group of London based designers, will explore the shift in communication technologies and printing techniques.
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Presstival
‘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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