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1. Call for entry: Laissez les bons temps rouler! Receiving dates: November 28 – December 4, 2021. Exhibition dates: December 12, 2021 — February 20, 2022 - link
2. Marcel Broodthaers. Industrial Poems, Open Letters. 10.09.2021 - 09.01.2022 - link
3. Conference. Vernacular Books and Reading Experiences in the Early Age of Print. Leiden University Library, 25.08 - 27.08.2021 - link
4. Riso kids workshop at the Design Museum Brussels - link
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1. 2021 ATF Conference. 31.07 - 1.08 (via Zoom) - registration link
2. Graphic heritage institutions and the irresistible rise of graphic design - link
3. Save Our Bacon - Australian Letterpress Collection. Help preserve this historic letterpress collection and help build a mobile printmaking studio, housed in a custom 40" shipping container - link
4. Pressing Matters issue n°16 is out - link
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1. A museum in Charmont-sous-Barbuise (FR), run by a few enthusiasts - link
2. The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum 13th Annual Wayzgoose is coming to you on Friday and Saturday, November 5 and 6, 2021 — plus a week of workshops leading up to the event itself. Registration for Wayzgoose is now open! - link
3. PRESS + PLAY festival of print. A five-week celebration of the finest in contemporary and traditional printmaking, including screen printing, linocut, lithography, drypoint, monotype, risograph, letterpress and more - link
4. Nebiolo Type Foundry, 1878–1978: New critical assessments. International Symposium. Torino, Castello del Valentino, 16–17.09.2021 - link
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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