1. ‘Take a tour of my collection: vintage typewriters’, by Dr Vaibhav Singh, University of Reading (UK). Did you know that the idea of the keyboard itself is a legacy of a very different era of the communications. Before it took its current form, the keyboard was literally a musical instrument adapted to the letters of the alphabet. Have you ever wondered why we use a ‘keyboard’ for typing? What do typewriters without a keyboard look like? Vaibhav Singh takes us on a tour of his collection of vintage typewriters, exploring how we have thought about text and technology, how the keyboard we use today has been one of many alternatives and how the processes and tools for writing have been adapted, modified and challenged.
2. Opportunity for local artists to exhibit in TYPA gallery during the month of July 2020.
3. The Dafi Kühne Printing Show™ is a series of educational letterpress printing videos. Poster designer, educator and letterpress printer Dafi Kühne is sharing his most secret printing recipes. Hot off the press. Go ahead and start cooking right away! 5 brand new episodes are coming up in summer 2020!
4. Awayzgoose is coming! Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum will partner with the American Printing History Association (APHA) for this year's Wayzgoose. Plans are under way for a dynamic and diverse, online "AWAYzgoose" to be held the first week of November 2020. More details and registration opening soon!
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25x25. Tipoteca 25.
As “birthday gift” for the first 25 years (1995–2020), Tipoteca Italiana asked 25 designers and printers, from all over the world, to design and print a poster. The project 25×25. Tipoteca 25 was conceived in this way. Starting from Sunday, June 21, the twenty-five posters will be shown in the Gallery (plus an “extra” poster made by Tipoteca) in a temporary exhibition open until October 2020. I’m so grateful to be part of it and looking forward to visiting this amazing place anytime soon!
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1. Glasgow Print Fair is coming to a sofa near you. You'll be able to purchase directly from each printmaker. Open on the 27th of June and close again on the 31st of July.
2. As “birthday gift” for the first 25 years (1995–2020), Tipoteca Italiana asked 25 designers and printers, from all over the world, to design and print a poster. The project 25×25. Tipoteca 25 was conceived in this way. Starting from Sunday, June 21, the twenty-five posters will be shown in the Gallery (plus an “extra” poster made by Tipoteca) in a temporary exhibition open until October 2020. I’m so grateful to be part of it and looking forward to visiting this amazing place anytime soon - link
3. United in isolation. an online letterpress festival. One more episode! S1E10 Saturday, 20 June 2020 Starting 19:00 CEST.
4. A novel by American writer Alix Christie about the 42-line Gutenberg Bible. The book was published by "Demon Press".
Alix Christie "Gutenberg’s Apprentice" (Аликс Кристи «Подмастерье Гутенберга»)
Translation from English by Maxim Nemtsov
Editor: Shashi Martynova
Proofreader: Natalia Gribenyuk
Design: Evgeny Grigoryev
Illustrator and engraver: Grigory Babich
Lettering for a dust jacket: Oleg Matsuev
Fonts: JAF Lapture (designer - Tim Arens, Cyrillic version - Oleg Matsuev), Gutenberg (Alter Littera)
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1. Schrift Publishers (Журнал и издательство «Шрифт») just published a brilliant and intimate interview by Rustam Gabbasov with an art historian, author, educator and the grandson of Alexander Rodchenko — Alexander Lavrentiev and his daughter, a teacher and historian of graphic design Yekaterina Lavrentieva.
2. Type specimens collected by Archivio Tipografico, a letterpress printshop and graphic design studio based in Torino, Italy - link
3. Printmaking podcasts by pine | copper | lime - link
4. Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters. New date! - link
David Armes & Andrew Honey. Webinar about printing and paper from The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. 23.06.2020
What’s beneath the words: a paper journey
Contemporary letterpress artist David Armes (Red Plate Press) and book conservator Andrew Honey (Bodleian Libraries) share their appreciation for paper and for the craft and art that goes into the making of books. Armes explains how he printed a new book on 'Oxford India Paper,' very thin but opaque paper used to print Bibles, encyclopaedias, and other lengthy works. The resulting work, Curses, exploits the paper's unique qualities. Find out how demanding this was, and hear about Armes's printing residency in Oxford, where he created the work 'Between Sun Turns,' a response to the environment and cityscape in and around the city. It has been thought that ‘Oxford India paper’ was locally produced at the Wolvercote Paper Mill; Andrew Honey discusses this idea, and reveals other historical paper research taking place at the Bodleian.
June 23, 2020. 03:00 PM (London time, BST) = 10:00 AM EDT
To register: link
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David Armes is an artist working with print, language and geography. His work is frequently site-specific and considers how sense and experience of place can be represented. He works primarily with letterpress printing on paper and, through using what was once an industrial process, he is interested in where the multiple meets the unique, where the ephemeral meets the archival. The final work varies in form and size from small chapbooks to large hanging scroll installations. He travels frequently for residencies and worked as artist-in-residence at Bodleian Libraries at University of Oxford (2019), Zygote Press fine art printmaking studio, Ohio (2018), BBC Radio Lancashire (2017) and Huddersfield Art Gallery (2016). He has recently shown work in the USA, UK and Germany, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Flourish Excellence in Printmaking award.
Andrew Honey is a book conservator at the Bodleian Libraries with a teaching and research role. He has recently completed the conservation and rebinding of the Winchester Bible and is the conservation advisor to The Mappa Mundi Trust. He has wide interests in the materiality of rare books and manuscripts, and a particular interest in historic paper. His paper research has ranged from the writing papers used by Jane Austen (Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts, Oxford 2018) to the faults found in the Shakespeare’s First Folio (‘Torn, wrinkled, stained, and otherwise naughty sheets’ – how should we interpret paper faults in seventeenth-century paper? link).
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Centre for the Study of the Book. Bodleian Library
University of Oxford
United in Isolation: An Online Exhibition. Letterpress Printers Respond to a Pandemic
Join your fellow letterpress printers from around the world in a virtual exhibition showcasing letterpress printers’ responses to the Covid 19 pandemic.
The exhibit is being organized by Peter Duffin and Samuel Larson from Animales de Lorca press in coordination with the United in Isolation team.
To be included in the exhibit, simply send Peter Duffin at PedroDuffin@gmail.com a good quality photo of the work you created in response to the pandemic (this could be a public service announcement ´Wash Your Hands!´ or a more poetic response to the sense of isolation created to this unique time in our history—all manner of responses are welcome). Some brief description will also be required.
The deadline for submissions is June 14, 2020 with online exhibit taking place in the summer of 2020. Peter and Samuel are hoping to organize a physical exhibit of this work too, this will be somewhat dependent government stay-in-place orders and the progress of the pandemic.
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United in isolation. An online letterpress festival
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1. A 25 minute documentary about poet, activist, artist, letterpress printer and one of Stroud's most cherished characters Dennis Gould by local filmmaker Alasdair Ogilvie - link
2. United in isolation. Online letterpress festival. Saturday 25th of April 2020. Starting 19:00 CEST - link
3. This is apparently the oldest printing press preserved in Armenia, exhibited at the Ethnographic Museum of Etchmiadzin - link
4. Letterform Archive. The online archive is now open to all - link