1.New Impressions. Call for entries. Deadline: January 18, 2022 - link
2. Celebrating London’s Libraries. 20 January 2022. 7–9 pm (GMT). Online via Zoom.
Tickets: £3–5 - link
3. Typoteka. The Index of Polish Typefaces - link
4. Pick up skills and inspiration through PiP’s letterpress printing classes and workshops — no matter where in the world you live - link
Born in Armenia, grew up between Russia and the Netherlands and now living in Belgium chasing my graphical madness.
Proud to be a part of this series of designers portraits (Dutch-spoken), filmed by Sebastiaan Vandierendonck (Walbaum Brothers) at the Museum of Industry (Ghent) this summer. Here is my short story about being born in Yerevan (Armenia), moving to Moscow (Russia), spending my childhood at the Embassy of the Soviet Union in The Hague (Netherlands). Speaking four languages, having a stammer and which influence it had on my professional life (spoiler: it is OK ; ). About my graphical journey in Belgium where I live for the last 18 years, my graphic design heroes and the importance of typesetting with wood/metal type and letterpress printing for future graphic designers.
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Sunday type walks in Bookish Talks by iBookBinding
Get Impressed. The Revival of Letterpress and Handmade Type.
The Museum of Industry. Textile Posters.
Posters for the MIAT
Das es straffe kaffee
Nog een potse truust
Museum Night at the MIAT. 01.12.16
Letterpress Workshop by Thomas Gravemaker (LetterpressAmsterdam) at the MIAT
DRUKOPSTRAAT 7. 4-5.05.2019. Museum of Industry. Gent
Winter links or what to do during holidays.
1. The last Ukiyo-e masters: Japanse prenten uit de 2e helft van de 19e eeuw. tentoonstelling Japanse houtsnede en prenten. 5.12 - 6.02.22. Expo + demo's Japanse houtsnede + workshops + rondleidingen door Vladimir Ivaneanu - link + workshops
2. De ABC kamer. Met de gloednieuwe expo De ‘ABC kamer’ werpt Villa Verbeelding een nieuwe blik op het alfabet. Maar liefst 26 (inter)nationale illustratoren ontwierpen speciaal voor deze expo een letter. Het resultaat is een verbluffend abc waar je niet op uitgekeken raakt - link
3. Marcelle Hanselaar in Museum De Rede (Antwerp) - link
4. ‘Lines and Tracks’ exhibition showcasing 150 posters from NMBS at Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée in La Louvière - link
5. Explore the 15th century of the region through the images, stories and characters from the Library of the Dukes of Burgundy at KBR (Brussels) - link
6. ‘Mode De Vie’ exhibition by Ines Claus at Rufus Gallery (Ghent) - link
7. ‘Kassa Kassa!’ or ‘Ka-Ching!’ exhibition at the Museum of Industry (Ghent). Discover the history of consumption and distribution and be surprised by objects, stories and sounds from the little-known world behind the familiar display window - link
8. Stuck in lockdown or in quarantine, then check out iBookBinding for podcasts and live streams - link
Quick links
1.Have you already thought about your Christmas gift for your favourite printmaker? Check out the Arteina website - link. Arteina is a manufacturer and distributor of material for fine arts, tools for engraving, lithography, woodcut, linocut, screen printing etc.
2. Een compacte selectie uit ontwerpwerk van G.Dooreman is te bekijken in de bibliotheek van Wevelgem - link
3. Call to Artists. RSA residencies for Scotland 2022 - link
4. If you missed the AEPM’s 2021 annual conference, you can now catch up on all or part of it on the Klingspor Museum’s YouTube channel - link
David Armes. Artist's talk from the Museum of Industry in Ghent. Monday 06.12.2021.
For the coming week David Armes from Red Plate Press (UK) will be an artist in residence at the printing department of the Museum of Industry in Ghent. Discovering the collection and making some new work. Looking forward to see the results and enjoy the artist's talk David will be giving on Monday 6 December at 16 o’clock.
And here is the link to follow the talk online - link
(it is free, no registration is required).
DAVID ARMES
Biography
David Armes is a visual artist from the north of England working with print, language and geography. His work is frequently site-specific and considers how experience of place can be represented. He has been working primarily with letterpress printing on paper for over 10 years and the final forms can vary in shape and size from large sculptural paper installations to small artists’ books. Through using what was once an industrial print process, he is interested in where the multiple meets the unique, where the ephemeral meets the archival. His recent commissions include work for The Poetry Society, Nordic Summer University and the University of Oxford’s Centre for Digital Scholarship and he is a current Visiting Fellow at the British Library. He travels regularly for residencies in the UK, US and across Europe and his work is held in collections such as the Bodleian Library (University of Oxford), Museum für Druckkunst (Leipzig, Germany) and the Fine Art and Design Library, University of Bergen Library (Norway).
Why I’d like to come to the Industriemuseum and what my plans are
I visited the Industriemuseum in 2017 and was immediately struck by the powerful stories held within the collection and building. I knew this was a place I wanted to revisit one day on a longer residency. For the past few years I have been creating a print and artist's book series called ’Text Landscapes’: pieces of typographic art that are a record of my response to a place. I will create a new iteration of this series during my residency, pulling together sources of oral history, conversations with people and my observations and photographs of the city. The history, and the present day, of printing and graphic arts in Ghent will be a wonderful inspiration.
Links:
www.redplatepress.com
www.redplatepress.com/prints.html
Instagram / Twitter / Facebook: @redplatepress
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The Museum of Industry. Textile Posters.
Camiel Van Breedam in The Bibliotheca Wittockiana.
Visiting Chalcography department in Brussels. 11.07.19.
Visiting Bodoni Museum in Parma. 28.06.19.
Visiting Familia Plómez in Madrid
Trip to Amsterdam. Makers Match & GWA.
Museum 't Aloam
Zomertyposium 2017 / 2018
Letterpress Amsterdam
Print Me Baby One More Type or LpW 2017
Visiting the London College of Communication
St Bride Foundation Wayzgoose 2017
Trip to Barcelona. Part I. Lauren Press
Trip to Barcelona. Part II. BunkerType
Bookbinders' Fair. Sint- Niklaas, Belgium
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Quick links
1.The Wit and Whimsy of W. A. Dwiggins, by Bruce Kennett. William Addison Dwiggins (1880–1956) is best known as a designer of printing types and books. His Caledonia and Electra types have been used to compose the text in countless thousands of books published since the 1930s. Dwiggins also established the visual style for Alfred A. Knopf and served for decades as their principal book designer. 31.03.22, St Bride Foundation - tickets
2. Boekkunstbeurs 2021 in Leiden in pictures - link
3. Save the date! AEPM annual conference 2022 at the the fabulous Atelier-Musée de l’Imprimerie in Malesherbes (FR). 5-6.05.22 - link
4. Expert class Boekontwerp – Patterns in Nature: 7 variaties - link
Quick links
1. ATypI Type Talks: ¿Letterpress? ¡¡¿En la era de Twitter?! Get ready for a fascinating conversation with Grendl Löfkvist (Letterform Archive/Type West, San Francisco) and Jesús Morentín (BunkerType, Barcelona). This conversation will be in Spanish.
23.11.21, free event - registration
2. Beatrice Ward Memorial Lecture - 50th Anniversary Good Types/Bad Types. With David Williams, Ellen Lupton, Erik van Blokland, Liron Lavi Turkenich, Martina Flor, Paul Barnes and Tré Seals. 18.11.21 - tickets
3. Textiles in Libraries: Context & Conservation series. Free event, booking required - link
4. Paula Scher in Madrid. The Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas presents a career-spanning exhibition of the designer in partnership with Madrid Gráfica 2021 - link