1. Help Ditchling Museum of Arts + Crafts take a 12.5-tonne vintage steamroller on a printing tour, creating massive works of art with artists, students and young people - link
2. Haiku txt in wood type - article
3. Unseen Hands: Women printers, binders & book designers - link
4. Early music printing. A brief video of how music was printed during the Renaissance, using pieces of type, from the Plantin workshop in Antwerp.
Quick links
1. InkMasters Cairns Inc invites all printmakers everywhere to submit entries to the InkMasters Print Exhibition to be held at Tanks Art Centre 29 Jul - 21 Aug 16 - link
2. Submissions are now open for KALEID 2016, Oslo - link
3. Print Exchange 2016 is open to printmakers worldwide - link
4. The Interrobang exhibition is open for submissions. Curated by Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft - link
Circus posters. Huis van Alijn
This tiny museum located just one street away from my house is a perfect place of tranquility in the historical center of Ghent. The Huis van Alijn tells a timeless story about the culture of
everyday life through ordinary objects and curiosities spread over 3 buildings which have been dated back to the 14th century. After being a hospital, shelter, chapel, and a carpenter shop the building started to decay and in 1941 it has been acquired by the city of Ghent and after restoration opened its doors as the Museum of Folklore/Huis Van Alijn in 1962.
Quick links
1. Colophon Type Museum (FR) - link & support page
2. The Saguache Crescent newspaper in Saguache, Colo., has been printing its news the same way since the 1800s. Lay the letters. Ink. Press. Publisher Dean Coombs’ family has had the business for three generations, and has helped print out the weekly broadsheet on a linotype since he was 12 years old. See how the news is made the hard way. Video
3. Historische Drukkerij Turnhout has announced its opening days for the year 2016.
Worth visiting, check it out - link
4. Christmas Cards Exchange 2015 - link
Type Journal in Belgium
It is been a while that I've been in contact with editors of Type Journal (Журнал «Шрифт»), an online journal devoted to type design, visual culture and typography in the RusÂsiÂan-speakÂing world. So at the beginning of the year, while being on holidays with friends in Berlin they've decided to visit Belgium for a few days. A perfect moment for a typographic meeting!
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Christmas Cards Exchange 2015
Don't you just love the smell of freshly printed ink in the morning? I certainly do!
For the second year in a row, I'm participating in the Christmas Cards Exchange project organized by the group of enthusiastic letterpress printers from the UK. The group of participants is growing every year (we were with more than 60 this year) and it is an absolute joy to receive the Christmas cards from Iceland, US, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, Argentina and so on. It is so inspiring. Thank you & Merry Christmas to you all! It was the best Christmas ever! Check out all cards here.
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