While visiting the annual AEPM conference in Madrid I had made some time free to visit Familia Plómez which I knew a lot about but never got a chance to visit.
So I gladly accepted the invitation of Roberto Gamonal Arroyo to visit Familia Plómez , a cultural association whose objective is to preserve the printing presses and letterpress printing techniques. Familia Plómez is not a one-man show, it is a collective of more than 10 designers/printmakers who’s goal is to teach and foster the knowledge of typesetting, typography and whatever is related with the letter, printed, written or drawn. The collective of Familia Plómez primarily produces posters because it’s the most expressive form to show the visual power of typography.
Quick links
1. Fear/Hope - Una mostra di Letterpress Workers! Exhibition at BASE Milan.
2. Last spots for Dafi Kühne s wonderful summer program - link.
3. Lithography Schnellpresse anno 1904. Let's move a 114 year old 7.5 ton heavy lithography Schnellpresse from Switzerland to its new home in Southern Sweden - link.
4. Calling all Printmakers! Submissions are open for our National Original Print Exhibition, all forms of printmaking are eligible and successful entries will be exhibited Bankside Gallery from 19-30 September. Deadline 28 June.
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1. A complete reprint of the revolutionary Gutenberg Bible “B42” - link.
2. A fabulous set of photos of the Caslon Type Foundry at the beginning of the twentieth century - link.
3. Françoise Pétrovitch at the Centre de la Gravure (BE). This exhibition is a mix of prints, sculptures, wall drawings and a video installation entitled ' The wolf and the wolf ' - link.
4. The voice of the people before Twitter? The protest poster worldwide from 1968 to 1973.
"Get Up, Stand Up!", changing the world with posters! 400 posters, 30 countries, 5 continents. 09.05.2018 - 30.09.2018, MIMA museum (BE).
Quick links
1. The next annual conference of the AEPM will be hosted by the Imprenta municipal – Artes del libro, Madrid, Spain from the 24-26 May 2018. The theme of the conference is:
'After printing: bookbinding as cultural heritage'.
2. MABB2018-Malmö Artists Book Biennial, first international artist's book fair in Sweden, a fair and exhibition about art based on the book as a phenomenon. 20.04.18.
3. GAA drukt door in Grote Kerk in Alkmaar. 22.06-22.07.18.
4. 'The Letterpress Printer', a lovely short film about Nick Hand from Bristol. The first in a new on-going collection of short films that explore the human relationship with passions, occupations and obsessions.
Typographic Summer Program with Dafi Kühne in Switzerland
"Typographic Summer Program" with Dafi Kühne is an intense 2-week summer program in Switzerland for international graphic design students and professionals. It started in 2016 with one summer session over 2 weeks and established over the last 3 years to a 2 session summer program.
The workshop’s goal is to bridge the gap between analog design and production tools and professional contemporary typographic posters. Students will go through a number of analog tasks to experience the layout qualities of simple type-only layouts. All the experiments and layout exercises will be realized with traditional letterpress printing presses and physical type. Through this very slow but accurate analog process, students will learn to put emphasis on concept and micro typography.
This program is a great opportunity for students to see and learn first hand from one of the few internationally successful contemporary letterpress poster designers. Besides of a lot of process results, sketches and small experimental prints, students will collaborate to produce each a letterpress printed typographic poster printed with
a variety of possible production tools like physical type
(wood & lead), chipboard, laser cut MDF, linoleum,
hand cast Ludlow type lines, and many more…
Every aspect of the design process that is taught and intensely trained with the tutors in an analog way will be easy to translate to the contemporary design practice for
the students' future career.
Dates/Schedule 2018
Session 1: From June 17th until June 30th.
Session 2: From August 5th until August 18th.
Applications for both sessions are open until March 30, 2018.
Check out the details here.
Quick links
1. Grand Mots Grands Moyens, an exhibition at Le Musée de l’imprimerie in Nantes,
21.03-30.04.18
2. Printing Colour 1700-1830 conference, 10-12.04.18, London.
3. Cataloging the Enquirer collection at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.
4. Printing Revolution and Society 1450-1500 - Fifty Years that Changed Europe Congres.
19-21.09.18, Venice.
Quick links
1. Artbook Berlin 2018 - 16-18.11.2018. Open for submissions until 30.04.2018.
2. Typosium XIIII. Save the date! 1 September 2018.
3. Haute Lecture by Colard Mansion. Innovating text and image in medieval Bruges - link.
4. The Type Collection – Preserving British Printing History.