“Alphabets of Wood. Luigi Melchiori and the history of Italian wood type”, written by James Clough and Chiara Scattolin and published by Tipoteca Italiana is the first publication about the history of wood type in Italy.
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Pastabodoni (or Manuale Pastagrafico)
To mark the 200th anniversary of Bodoni's death November 1813 Lino's Type (Verona, IT) and Flowers and Fleurons (Brighton, UK) initiate a collaborative letterpress book.
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Art During The Great War
"Art During The Great War" is an exhibition in Antwerp (BE) built around six central figures, Rik Wouters, Emile Verhaeren, Cyriel Buysse, André de Ridder, Jules Schmalzigaug and Paul van Ostaijen. It explores how each was affected by the Great War.
Inspired by Paul van Ostaijen's work graphic designers Tom Hautekiet en Herman Houbrechts created a typographic poster for the exhibition and printed it at the Frans Masereel Centrum. Nice!
French type specimens
Recently discovered this online resource of French type specimens. It is incredible! There goes my evening:)
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To help 'Hamilton Wood Type & Print Museum' facilitate an unplanned and forced move, Mama's Sauce came up with a project called Love Letters - a set of 7 letterpress printed alphabet coasters.
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Ben Joosten. 04.02-27.05.12
From February 4 until 27 May 2012 the Museum Het Valkhof will hold an exhibition of Dutch artist Ben Joosten - ‘Naar de letter – prenten in boekdruk’ (To the letter - letterpress prints).
The museum will display a selection of typographic prints as well as the documentary film ‘Naar de letter’ (To the letter) by Hanne van der Woude. I couldn't find info about of this documentary (or trailer) but found some 'making of' pictures and I'm curious about this documentary.
Meat Collective
Recently discovered this experimental multilayered letterpress printed posters by Meatcollective from Bologna. I absolutely love it!
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