1. Duke Studios Evening Sessions with Anthony Burrill. 09.04.2020 - link
2. Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century. A film by Richard Kegler. This fascinating design documentary captures the personality and work process of the late Canadian graphic artist Jim Rimmer (1931-2010). Free rental until 24.04.2020 - link
3. ‘The Book Makers’ is a 1-hour documentary that pulls back the curtain on the people who are keeping books alive in the 21st century. Check out the trailer - link
4. A great collection of wood type specimens documented by Eric Nunes - link
Whittington Press Open Day. 07.09.2019.
It is been a while since I’ve heard about the annual Whittington Press Open Day, the event I absolutely wanted to visit but never had a chance to. So when Patrick Goossens from Letter-kunde Press (BE) kindly offered me a ride I said 'Great! I'm in!'.
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Quick links
1. ‘Los Ultimos’ (Endless Letterpress) - video
2. Music, typography & printmaking - Pinterest board
3. 50 people. 50 days. 50 paid projects - link
4. Filmmaker Gary Hustwit is streaming his documentaries free worldwide during the global COVID crisis - link
Letterpress Printing Videos
Stuck at home? Have some extra time? Check out my collection of carefully selected videos about letterpress printing. Stay safe. Wash your hands.
Quick links
1. Topo Copy presents ‘Knust, the pioneers of Riso Print’ [docu] + Kleurbekennen [talk]. 27.03.2020 - link (cancelled)
2. Appeal to save Birmingham’s iconic Bible - link
3. Derby Print Open call for submissions. Deadline 30.03.2020 - link
4. Shipley Wayzgoose will take place on Saturday 6th June at the Kirkgate Centre - link
Unfold the wrinkles of time.
Time for the slightly late New Year's card post. Usually each year I make time to design, typeset and print the cards to send to the fellow designers/printers. I'm sure many of you already got a few cards over the years, some of them in the form of newspapers, posters or…cards. Well, typesetting with wood and metal type, proofing, making corrections, letterpress printing are the things I enjoy the most (well, except the make-ready part which might take an extra hour). But this time I've done some typesetting for someone else: for a colleague letterpress printer Jozias Boone.
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Quick links
1. Boekkunstbeurs. 09-10.11.19, Leiden (NL).
2. ‘Expres per ongeluk’ exhibition by E.Schneider in a brand new Rufus Gallery in Ghent.
3. Displacement Prints Exchange. Call for submissions. Deadline 30.11.2019.
4. ‘A Show of Hands' celebrates one of printing's most famous visual icons: the printer's fist or ‘manicule’. 30.09 - 19.10.2019, Corsham Court campus, Bath Spa University (UK).