1. Woodblock Webinar. Monday 07 December 2020 from 16:00 to 19:00. In this webinar Museum Plantin-Moretus will present the process and results of the woodblock project (2019-2020). Invited speakers will also give insight into specific research topics dealing with woodblocks. Check it out! link
2. ‘The Canary Islands to Leipzig & back again’ by Matthias Beck - link
3. Whittington Press will begin shipping Matrix 36 mid-November - link
4. Voter Mobilization prints are available from Affiliates around the United States for $11.03 (plus local taxes, and shipping and handling where applicable). All posters are available for free download on the condition you spread them far and wide and credit the artist - link
From Futura to the Future. Leipzig.
In the first week of October Letterpress Workers will be holding an event at the Museum of Printing in Leipzig called “From futura to the future: International Letterpress Workers”. There will be a live printing session as well as a curated exhibition of prints produced by Letterpress Workers over the years. Delighted to be part of it! These two posters are going to Leipzig (and hopefully I would be going there too ;) ) The exhibition will be open for public from 4.10.20 til 15.11.20.
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Let it all begin!
Despite the cancellation of the Letterpress Workers event in Milan due to ‘we all know what’ it was still decided to make a publication, as it was happening every year. This time it will be a box gathering letterpress printed works by the participants accompanied by a booklet. The theme ‘New Beginnings’ became a kind of reaction to the events surrounding us for the last couple of months. I embraced the idea of 'new beginnings', a fresh start. An opportunity to experiment with materials and genuinely have fun while printmaking. For me it all has started…from a CD. And not only because I've discovered a box of old (non-working) CD's and was looking for good use of it, but because music is playing a very important role in my life: music unites, music heals even when physical separation is trying to ruin the party.
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Quick links
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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Quick links
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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