1. Makeready 2020. A virtual Symposium for Letterpress Educators. 20-24.07.
2. Typographics is a design festival for people who use type. The annual event series, now in its 6th year, is focused on contemporary typography and where its future may lie. This year’s events will be hosted online.
3. An online tribute to Milton Glaser hosted by Eye magazine.
4. Check out the Hamilton Hangs - link
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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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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
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.
More info - link
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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
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1. United in isolation. Online letterpress festival featuring Phil Gambrill (Fresh Lemon Print, AUS), Sergei Besov (Demon Press, RU), Myrna Keliher (Expedition Press, USA). Saturday 18th of April 2020. Starting 19:00 CEST - link
2. iBookbinding decided to try a podcast/video chat format and invite some of the bookish people to discuss their recent projects, book industry news, and reply to some of your questions. The first guest next week will be Benjamin Elbel, owner of the Elbel Libro Bookbinding (NL) - link
3. Inky rebels weekly print challenge - link