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February 20, 2020

1. Edinburgh Printmakers are delighted to announce the first-ever EP Graphics and Illustration Fair, housed in Castle Mills, the largest centre for print in Europe and a beautifully restored heritage building. Deadline - 12 - 25 February 2020 - link
2. Verjaardagsfeest Christoffel Plantin, 15.03.20, Museum Plantin-Moretus - link
3. KBR launches BelgicaPeriodicals. The website BelgicaPeriodicals gives you access to a selection of journals and periodicals published over two centuries, from 1813 to the present day. Thanks to the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) process, you can now perform a full-text search in 470.617 pages of periodicals that are preserved in the General Reading Room and the Music Department. link
4. Amazing specimen from the St. Petersburg printing house from 1870: apart from regular type examples they had “Our father in heaven” written in 325 languages from all over the world - link

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February 9, 2020

1. TYPA Artist in Residence 2020 - link
2. Limited Edition Art Fair Hosted by Villa Empain - Fondation Boghossian. 14-16.02.20 - link
3. Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters - link
4. The importance of place: printing in the context of history and society. The annual conference of the Association of European Printing Museums. Offenbach, Germany. 28-30.05.20. Organised by the Klingspor Museum and the Haus der Stadtgeschichte (Offenbach Local History Museum) - link (cancelled)

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January 23, 2020

1. Papier Carbone n°4 festival. 08-09.05.20, Charleroi (BE) - link
2. Atelier Zeven. Opening of the new art studio in Ghent (BE). 07.02.20 - link
3. David Pearson on hand-setting type for Oliver Jeffers’ new book - link
4. The Burgundian Summerhouse - Eliza Pepermans at the Rufus Gallery. 08.02.20.

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January 5, 2020

1. Post-Digital Letterpress Printing Conference. 30-31.01.20 Porto (PT) - link
2. ToCall for submissions. Deadline 25.01.20 - link
3. Derby Print Open. Call for submissions 2020 - link
4. Book launch: Nikolaas Demoen — Labyrinth. Kunsthaal Gent, 07.02.20 - link

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December 27, 2019

1. A short documentary film about the memorial artwork created to celebrate the work of Edward Johnston, creator of the typeface used across Transport for London - link.
2. 'Tracing The Spirit' commission 2020 by David Armes / Red Plate Press (UK).
3. Music movable types kept at the Päivälehden museo in Helsinki (found via @musicaltypography) + book about printing in Finland: “Kirjapainotaidon oppikirja” (1923) with a comprehensive section regarding music typesetting - link.

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October 10, 2019

1. Boekkunstbeurs. 09-10.11.19, Leiden (NL).
2. ‘Expres per ongeluk’ exhibition by E.Schneider in a brand new Rufus Gallery in Ghent.
3. Displacement Prints Exchange. Call for submissions. Deadline 30.11.2019.
4. ‘A Show of Hands' celebrates one of printing's most famous visual icons: the printer's fist or ‘manicule’. 30.09 - 19.10.2019, Corsham Court campus, Bath Spa University (UK).

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September 13, 2019

1. Open Doors Days at the Letterpress Corner. 28-29.09, Ghent.
2. Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair is the only fair in London to deal solely in contemporary printmaking. 07-10.11, London.
3. Very Like a Whale. This display marks 200 years since the birth of Herman Melville with 21st-century prints inspired by his most famous fictional creation, Moby-Dick.
18.10.19-05.01.20, Oxford.
4. A limited edition of "The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, using historic letterpress technology at the TYPA studio, Tartu, Estonia.

October 2, 2026

Type walk in Ghent. Before & after. Oudburg.

When walking through Oudburg in Ghent, which I do quite often, I have noticed a number of small changes over the years. Signs disappear. Façades are repainted. Businesses move on. New lettering takes their place.

None of these changes is particularly dramatic. But together they tell us something about how the visual identity of a street evolves.

July 5, 2026

Type Walk in Ghent. Before & After. Looking up: the fading letters of Cockney's Distillery.

A couple of weeks ago, during the annual flea market on Lange Violettestraat, I found myself doing what I probably do too often: looking up.

While most people were browsing records, ceramics and old books, my attention drifted towards the façades. That's when I noticed it. Barely visible beneath layers of age and weather, a painted sign slowly emerged from the brickwork.

May 24, 2026

Type walk in Ghent. Before & after. 90 years of Dossche Sport.

Dossche Sport is one of the symbols of Ghent’s rich cycling heritage — a business rooted in professional racing history, family tradition, and nearly a century of dedication to the bicycle culture of the city.

March 28, 2026

Type walk in Ghent. Before & after. Marchandises & stories.

Tucked away near Sint-Jacobsplein in Ghent once stood a place that many locals still remember with a certain nostalgia: Marchand’10. The name Marchand’10 (Marchandise) — French for “merchant” — suited the place perfectly. This was never just a shop, but a world of its own. It felt more like wandering into a densely packed cabinet of curiosities.

January 18, 2026

Type walk in Ghent. Before & after. Only “Beerhouse” remains.

Het Waterhuis aan de Bierkant is one of Ghent’s most recognizable cafés. With its large beer selection and sunny terrace along the water, it attracts locals and visitors from all over the world. But this is more than just a place to have a drink—it’s a building with a long and surprising history.

January 6, 2026

Type walk in Ghent. Before & after or from lace to lunch: the changing story of Kraanlei 33.

It’s been quite a while since I started my Sunday type walks. What began as a simple stroll through the city—my only free day as a self-employed graphic designer—quickly became a way to move, clear my head, and indulge my long-standing fascination with typography in all its forms. Whenever I arrive in a new city, I instinctively take a type walk; the streets are full of hidden typographic gems, waiting to be discovered.

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