David Armes. Artist's talk from the Museum of Industry in Ghent. Monday 06.12.2021.

For the coming week David Armes from Red Plate Press (UK) will be an artist in residence at the printing department of the Museum of Industry in Ghent. Discovering the collection and making some new work. Looking forward to see the results and enjoy the artist's talk David will be giving on Monday 6 December at 16 o’clock.

And here is the link to follow the talk online - link
(it is free, no registration is required).

DAVID ARMES

Biography
David Armes is a visual artist from the north of England working with print, language and geography. His work is frequently site-specific and considers how experience of place can be represented. He has been working primarily with letterpress printing on paper for over 10 years and the final forms can vary in shape and size from large sculptural paper installations to small artists’ books. Through using what was once an industrial print process, he is interested in where the multiple meets the unique, where the ephemeral meets the archival. His recent commissions include work for The Poetry Society, Nordic Summer University and the University of Oxford’s Centre for Digital Scholarship and he is a current Visiting Fellow at the British Library. He travels regularly for residencies in the UK, US and across Europe and his work is held in collections such as the Bodleian Library (University of Oxford), Museum für Druckkunst (Leipzig, Germany) and the Fine Art and Design Library, University of Bergen Library (Norway).

Why I’d like to come to the Industriemuseum and what my plans are
I visited the Industriemuseum in 2017 and was immediately struck by the powerful stories held within the collection and building. I knew this was a place I wanted to revisit one day on a longer residency. For the past few years I have been creating a print and artist's book series called ’Text Landscapes’: pieces of typographic art that are a record of my response to a place. I will create a new iteration of this series during my residency, pulling together sources of oral history, conversations with people and my observations and photographs of the city. The history, and the present day, of printing and graphic arts in Ghent will be a wonderful inspiration.

Links:
www.redplatepress.com
www.redplatepress.com/prints.html
Instagram / Twitter / Facebook: @redplatepress

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Sunday type walks in Bookish Talks by iBookBinding.

Proud to be a part of this Bookish Talk by iBookBinding, discussing my 'unhealthy' interest for public lettering and typography. In case you are not familiar with it yet, iBookBinding is a podcast and blog about book arts and book history. They also have a shop offering a variety of tools.

Thank you Stepan & Pyotr for this opportunity to talk about my Sunday type walks in Ghent and abroad! Check out the video and enjoy the walks in the city of Ghent as I do ;)

Follow my Sunday type walks on Instagram
Video - link

Quick links

1.The Wit and Whimsy of W. A. Dwiggins, by Bruce Kennett. William Addison Dwiggins (1880–1956) is best known as a designer of printing types and books. His Caledonia and Electra types have been used to compose the text in countless thousands of books published since the 1930s. Dwiggins also established the visual style for Alfred A. Knopf and served for decades as their principal book designer. 31.03.22, St Bride Foundation - tickets
2. Boekkunstbeurs 2021 in Leiden in pictures - link
3. Save the date! AEPM annual conference 2022 at the the fabulous Atelier-Musée de l’Imprimerie in Malesherbes (FR). 5-6.05.22 - link
4. Expert class Boekontwerp – Patterns in Nature: 7 variaties - link

Quick links

1. ATypI Type Talks: ¿Letterpress? ¡¡¿En la era de Twitter?! Get ready for a fascinating conversation with Grendl Löfkvist (Letterform Archive/Type West, San Francisco) and Jesús Morentín (BunkerType, Barcelona). This conversation will be in Spanish.
23.11.21, free event - registration
2. Beatrice Ward Memorial Lecture - 50th Anniversary Good Types/Bad Types. With David Williams, Ellen Lupton, Erik van Blokland, Liron Lavi Turkenich, Martina Flor, Paul Barnes and Tré Seals. 18.11.21 - tickets
3. Textiles in Libraries: Context & Conservation series. Free event, booking required - link
4. Paula Scher in Madrid. The Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas presents a career-spanning exhibition of the designer in partnership with Madrid Gráfica 2021 - link

Quick links

1.NNP formula. A composite print of elements describing New North Press’ approach to letterpress - link
2. The Print Project Open Day, 16.10.21 - link
3. Partners in Print brings people together by using old printing presses to amplify new voices, share knowledge, and spark creativity - link
4. London Centre for Book Arts is Reopening! Help them to rebuild after Covid and create a new exhibition space dedicated to artist books and publishing - link

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1. Masterclass Linocut with Chrudoš Valoušek. Event by Czech Centre Brussels and Grafik. 02.10.2021 - link
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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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