I really like to visit all kinds of art & design fairs and exhibition, but I never been to Art Up! yet, an annual art fair which is taking place next week from 25 to 28 February in Lille (FR). And as it is only an hour drive from Gent I think I will be heading to Lille next weekend.
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1. Letterpress workshop G.G.G. (Geschreven, Getekend, Gedrukt) by Casimir Franken and Elise Verstraete during Festival Digital at the Kopergieterij in Gent - link
2. On the night of Easter Sunday 1916 in the basement of Liberty Hall, Dublin, Christopher Brady, William O’Brien and Michael Molloy printed 2,500 copies of Ireland's best known historical document, the 1916 Proclamation - video
3. Art up! Contemporary Art Fair in Lille (FR), featuring various printing workshops & demonstrations - link
4.Letterpress Chocolate - link
Typographic letterpress poster workshop with Dafi Kühne
Have you ever wanted to spend your summer vacation printing posters using wood/lead type with Dafi Kühne at his spacious workshop in Näfels? Well, that's your chance!
Typographic Letterpress Poster Workshop (June 20th – July 2nd, 2016) with Dafi Kühne is an intense 2-week summer program in Switzerland for international graphic design students. The workshop’s goal is to bridge the gap analog design and production tools and professional contemporary typographic posters.
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1. New Impressions. Juried Exhibition by Hamilton Wood Type & Printing museum.
Entry submission due 01.03.2016 - link
2. Call for Art: The Pull of Print, a printmaking exhibition. Deadline 01.03.2016 - link
3. Printing machinery catalogues from Historische Drukkerij Turnhout collection - link
4. Call for artists: Small Prints 16 - link (US only)
Letterpress Printing Videos
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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.