1. ‘From futura to the future. International Letterpress Workers.’ The exhibition shows selected works by international typographers, graphic designers and calligraphers. For the first time, an overview of the eight years of intensive typographic-artistic collaboration is presented in the Museum of Printing Art of Leipzig - link
2. Pills, Potions & Points: Letterpress Art in Science with Elisabeth Fraser. 21.07 - link
(please note that this talk will be happening online via Zoom)
3. Art Book Berlin 2020. Registration for the artists' book fair in Berlin is open. The fair is organized by Hanneke van der Hoeven and Corn.elius Brändle. 20-22 November, ‘Kunstquartier Bethanien’, Mariannenplatz, Berlin/Kreuzberg.
4. The Daily Heller: Belgium’s Vital Modernism - link
G is for Gouda
After being in lockdown for a few months I was looking forward to escaping the city of Ghent (even though I love my city). So when a friend of mine, active in the field of typewriter art, suggested accompanying her during a short trip for a little repair job for one of her typewriters to the city of Gouda, I immediately said 'yes!'. On Sunday morning, armed with map and cookies we left Antwerp and drove to Wie van Zoet Hout store in Gouda, the place to buy and repair typewriters. After arriving at the industry zone near the city of Gouda called GOUDasfalt and enjoying a cup of coffee with a cool name 'Man met bril koffie' and a delicious home-baked cake we headed to the blue warehouse.
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1. Makeready 2020. A virtual Symposium for Letterpress Educators. 20-24.07.
2. Typographics is a design festival for people who use type. The annual event series, now in its 6th year, is focused on contemporary typography and where its future may lie. This year’s events will be hosted online.
3. An online tribute to Milton Glaser hosted by Eye magazine.
4. Check out the Hamilton Hangs - link
The reissue of a typographic masterpiece. Aldo Novarese: Alfa-Beta.
The first edition of Alfa-Beta reviewed the evolution of writing systems and typography from their advent up to the present day. The first edition was published in 1964 by Progresso Grafico and distributed by G.B. Paravia & C. The book showcases a very specific point of view: it is one of very few works on the history of type originally written in Italian, and one of even fewer to have been written by a type designer rather than a historian or academic. It also marked the public debut of Novarese’s own typeface classification system.
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image by Tipoteca Italiana
25x25. Tipoteca 25.
As “birthday gift” for the first 25 years (1995–2020), Tipoteca Italiana asked 25 designers and printers, from all over the world, to design and print a poster. The project 25×25. Tipoteca 25 was conceived in this way. Starting from Sunday, June 21, the twenty-five posters will be shown in the Gallery (plus an “extra” poster made by Tipoteca) in a temporary exhibition open until October 2020. I’m so grateful to be part of it and looking forward to visiting this amazing place anytime soon!
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1. Glasgow Print Fair is coming to a sofa near you. You'll be able to purchase directly from each printmaker. Open on the 27th of June and close again on the 31st of July.
2. As “birthday gift” for the first 25 years (1995–2020), Tipoteca Italiana asked 25 designers and printers, from all over the world, to design and print a poster. The project 25×25. Tipoteca 25 was conceived in this way. Starting from Sunday, June 21, the twenty-five posters will be shown in the Gallery (plus an “extra” poster made by Tipoteca) in a temporary exhibition open until October 2020. I’m so grateful to be part of it and looking forward to visiting this amazing place anytime soon - link
3. United in isolation. an online letterpress festival. One more episode! S1E10 Saturday, 20 June 2020 Starting 19:00 CEST.
4. A novel by American writer Alix Christie about the 42-line Gutenberg Bible. The book was published by "Demon Press".
Alix Christie "Gutenberg’s Apprentice" (Аликс Кристи «Подмастерье Гутенберга»)
Translation from English by Maxim Nemtsov
Editor: Shashi Martynova
Proofreader: Natalia Gribenyuk
Design: Evgeny Grigoryev
Illustrator and engraver: Grigory Babich
Lettering for a dust jacket: Oleg Matsuev
Fonts: JAF Lapture (designer - Tim Arens, Cyrillic version - Oleg Matsuev), Gutenberg (Alter Littera)
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1. Schrift Publishers (Журнал и издательство «Шрифт») just published a brilliant and intimate interview by Rustam Gabbasov with an art historian, author, educator and the grandson of Alexander Rodchenko — Alexander Lavrentiev and his daughter, a teacher and historian of graphic design Yekaterina Lavrentieva.
2. Type specimens collected by Archivio Tipografico, a letterpress printshop and graphic design studio based in Torino, Italy - link
3. Printmaking podcasts by pine | copper | lime - link
4. Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters. New date! - link