1. Earliest Hangeul metal movable type blocks excavated in Seoul - link
2. Grafiek Leeft! Expo ‘Kruisbestuiving 2.0’, Antwerpen, 25.07 - 29.09 - link
3. An Elaborate Paper Replica Recreates the Heidelberg Letterpress at Full Scale - link
4. The Papier Carbon Festival Summer Exhibition in BPS22, Charleroi (BE), 19.06-12.09.21. Created in 2016 in Charleroi, the Papier Carbone festival comprising a fair and different event, aims to showcase artists, publishers and collectives working with the printed image and desk-top publishing. Cancelled for the second year running, Papier Carbone has become a summer festival and is now Été Carbone - link
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1. Thomas Gravemaker - portrait of a letterpress guru, by Pauline Walzak. A lovely portrait of the master printer Thomas Gravemaker/Letterpress Amsterdam. Be sure to pay him a visit when you are in Amsterdam! - link
2. As part of her final project, Morgane Van Torre (FR) created a woodblock typeface in collaboration with Type High Design (UK). Megh contains 225 pieces including alternates, extension modules and ligatures.
3. 'About tyranny' is a book by historian Timothy Snyder. Inspired by Snyder's lessons, Brazilian designers created posters at Oficina Tipográfica São Paulo that represented the author's views and the views their own. The result was exposed at the National Conjunto in São Paulo - link
4. Hamilton Hang: Angelina Lippert from Poster House, 16.07.2021 - link
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1. Hamilton Hang: London Centre for Book Arts. 25.06.2021 - link / register
2. Letterpress in the Time of Covid. With Ane Thon Knutsen, Ben Blount, Naomi Kent, Michelle Yu, New North Press, Peter Gibbons, and more to be announced shortly. 12.07.2021, 7–9pm (BST). Online via Zoom. Tickets: £3–5 - link / register
3. Tour of Howard Iron Works (Online). On Saturday, July 17th 2021 the C.C. Stern Type Foundry will take a virtual tour and hear about the ongoing work at Howard Iron Works in Oakville, Ontario (Canada) - link
4. Hamilton Hang: Nick Loaring. 09.07.2021 - link / register
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1. Expo Shout. On show: Anthony Burrill (UK), Eike König (DE), James Joyce (UK), Marco Oggian (IT), Morag Myerscough (UK). 03.07 - 26.09.21, C-Mine (BE) - link
2. ‘4 Elements’ exhibition in Bibliotheca Wittockiana - link
3. Carmine Cervone is a letterpress printer in Naples who is proposing to create a type museum in an old church in Naples. His project is on the crowdfund site Buonacausa (good cause) where he plans to raise funds by reprinting Dante’s Divine Comedy 700 years after the poet's death - typeset using a Linotype machine - link
4. St Bride Foundation Virtual Wayzgoose. 11.07.2021 - link
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1. New home urgently needed for old Upper Hutt printing presses (NZ) - link
2. Tupigrafia. The 2000-2020 anthology. The English language anthology of the first and only Brazilian magazine on typography, lettering and calligraphy - link
3. Zomer Academie. Artistieke werkweek. 19-25.07.2021 - link
4. The Paper and Watermark Museum Fabriano finally reopens to the public - link
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1. Printing in Dutch. The Gallery at Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, UK. 8.05 – 21.07.2021 - link
2. This is an open call to any printmakers to get involved - a chance to have your artwork on our insert or featured in a showcase of creativity in the July edition of Pressing Matters magazine - more info
3. Virtual event. Rick Griffith, Evan Weissman, Stephen Brackett: Non-violence & Activism. 5.05.21 - link
4. Letterpress printing courses by Andy Kinnear - link
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1. Typographics conference, workshops and TypeLab. Typographics is a design festival for people who use type. Spread out between June 1 and July 1, 2021 - link
2. Meet the printmakers. Pressing matters & Atelier Indrukwekkend. 6 May - link
3. Making Printers’ Type. Man’s 500 Year Quest to Develop Better Methods - link
4. X - Censuur en Beeldcultuur. Nationaal Museum van de Speelkaart, Turnhout. 1 april tot 7 november 2021 - link