Get Impressed. The Revival of Letterpress and Handmade Type.

Happy to have my work featured in this publication by Sandu Publishing Co., Ltd. from China. I’m looking forward to receiving the book and meeting old and new ‘faces’ on the pages filled with ink and wood type.

Here is a short info about the publication:

Get Impressed. The Revival of Letterpress and Handmade Type

Letterpress, an old-world invention, forever changed the face of communication and the speed in which information could pass from person to person. It gave birth to the “press”. Today letterpress is in a full-blown revival and widely used in printing books, posters, bespoke stationery like invitations, name cards, letterheads and so on. Letterpress designers carve out their names in the computer-generated design world with beautifully composed types.

190 mm × 250 mm, 240pp
Hardcover, English
ISBN: 978-84-17656-37-9 (Oversea market)
ISBN: 978-988-74493-5-5 (Chinese market)
Contact sales@sandupublishing.com to purchase

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My submission for this publication was the design for an LP sleeve (gatefold) and CD cover+booklet for the ‘Pockets Full of Change’ album by ‘People in Houses’ music band from Ghent. Together with the band we decided to use crafty approach: the illustrations were made from linocut, I printed and scanned the wood type to be used for the titles and the back side of the wood type for the textures. The letterpress printing took place at my studio Letterpress Corner and offset printing at Deepgrooves (NL).

Get Impressed
The Revival of Letterpress and Handmade Type
190 mm × 250 mm, 240pp
Hardcover, English
ISBN: 978-84-17656-37-9 (Oversea market)
ISBN: 978-988-74493-5-5 (Chinese market)
Contact sales@sandupublishing.com to purchase

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HANDS-ON TYPE | typography event in Porto/Portugal | 14—17 September 2021

A series of workshops and conferences on the letterpress heritage, with three super-guests: Alan Kitching (UK) | The New Typography Workshop; Dafi Kühne (CH) | Babyinktwice; Rick Griffith (US) | Matter.

Alan Kitching (UK) | The New Typography Workshop — One of the world's leading typography and handprint designers (The New Typography Workshop), recognized for his expressive use of wood and metal types in the creation of his graphic works. He is an honorary member of The Royal College of Art, visiting professor at the University of the Arts London, and a member of the Alliance Graphique International.

Dafi Kühne (CH) | Babyinktwice — Designer, printer and professor, known for the wild mix of analogue and digital tools to produce posters for music, art and architecture, theatre, films and also products. He is the author of the publication True Pint (2016), the video series The Dafi Kühne Printing Show (2020) and the typographic project Wood Type Now! (2009).

Rick Griffith (US) | Matter — Designer, visual artist, printer, teacher, writer and activist. His creative practice results in a collage of form, color and grammar, with an autoethnographic focus. His works can be found all over the world, integrating museums and collections in the United States.

WORKSHOPS | 15—16 SEP [9:30 am–5:30 pm]

14 SEP | Alan Kitching (UK)
15 SEP | Dafi Kühne (CH)
16 SEP | Rick Griffith (US)

CONFERENCES | 17 SEP [10 am–06 pm]

11:00 am | Alan Kitching (UK)
02:30 pm | Dafi Kühne (CH)
04:00 pm | Rick Griffith (US)

REGISTRATIONS
handsontype.esad.pt

FEES
· workshops: 140€ (w/ lunch + goodie bag)
· conferences: 40€ (w/ lunch + goodie bag)
· pack 3 workshops + conferences: 400€ (w/ lunch + goodie bag)
· ESAD community: 30% discount

WHERE
ESAD/ Typography Workshop
ESAD/ Auditorium
Organisation: esadidea, Research in Design and Art + ESAD, College of Art and Design
Support: Direção-Geral das Artes
Partners: I2ADS, ID+, Imprensa Nacional–Casa da Moeda, uniMAD + Fedrigoni, Grafopel, Maiadouro, Tecnimprensa, Viarco

Typographic Surprises! 26.02.2021

First of the Typographic Surprises! webinar series organised by Printing Historical Society. An online event not to be missed.

Dr Alexandra Franklin

A surprising journey to the third dimension

Librarians make every effort to keep things flat. When is it OK to go 3D? We will take a behind-the-scenes and inside-the-lines look at often-neglected collections of printing surfaces in one library, the Bodleian in Oxford. These testify to the three-dimensional history and nature of the printed page.

Alexandra is Co-ordinator of the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book and the Bodleian Bibliographical Press. She is the author of 'Woodcuts,' in Book Parts (2019) and of 'Casting Off: a journey in five starts,' in the journal Inscription 1, 2020.

Patrick Goossens

What came after punch cutting

At the outset of printing in the west, it is (almost) generally accepted that type was made via a steel punch driven in a copper matrix. The advent of the nineteenth, with its hankering for speed, efficiency and de-skilling, brought new technologies to the old trade. Pantographic punch and matrix cutting were one of them. Patrick will take us inside his Antwerp engraving room for a look at some of the different punch and matrix engraving equipment he has gathered over the last decades with a brief explanation and demonstration of the processes.

Born in Antwerp, the home-town of the Plantin-Moretus Museum, Patrick studied history at the University Antwerp and Louvain. Mesmerised by the Museum’s press room he started to collect and research historical printing and typecasting equipment. This collection has allowed him to research the tangible and intangible sides of printing history for his ongoing doctoral thesis on the dissemination of innovative printing technology in the nineteenth century, focusing on Belgium. Patrick has presented some of his preliminary findings, worldwide.

Martin Killeen

What is the use of a book without pictures?

This presentation will provide some perspectives on the illustration of early printed books including a brief comparison of the relatively few illustrated books of native literature published in England before 1700 compared to Continental Europe, especially Italy.

Martin Killeen, recently retired Rare Books Librarian at the Cadbury Research Library, spent more than thirty years exploiting the rich resources of the repository (printed books, archives and manuscripts) to support teaching, learning and research across all the disciplines within the University and beyond. This included delivering talks and presentations and using original materials to lead seminars and classes (which often cover themes relating to print and publishing history and physical bibliography). Martin also publishes papers based on the Cadbury Research Library's holdings.

Date And Time
Fri, 26 February 2021
19:00 – 21:00 CET
Register (free) - link

Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters

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This winter, New North Press is holding an exhibition of letterpress artworks with something to say. Marking 10 years since the last Reverting to Type exhibition, 2020’s show will be of letterpress protest posters. As before, this will be an international exhibition showcasing progressive letterpress artwork from presses around the world, alongside the work of students and specially-invited collaborators. I’m proud to have two of my works selected for this exhibition and I wish I could attend the opening.

Exhibition launch
3 December 2020
Live-streamed broadcast on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook

Exhibition dates
4 December 2020 – 29 January 2021 (restrictions allowing)

Location
Standpoint Gallery
45 Coronet Street
London N1 6HD
UK