Time for the slightly late New Year's card post. Usually each year I make time to design, typeset and print the cards to send to the fellow designers/printers. I'm sure many of you already got a few cards over the years, some of them in the form of newspapers, posters or…cards. Well, typesetting with wood and metal type, proofing, making corrections, letterpress printing are the things I enjoy the most (well, except the make-ready part which might take an extra hour). But this time I've done some typesetting for someone else: for a colleague letterpress printer Jozias Boone.
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1. A short documentary film about the memorial artwork created to celebrate the work of Edward Johnston, creator of the typeface used across Transport for London - link.
2. 'Tracing The Spirit' commission 2020 by David Armes / Red Plate Press (UK).
3. Music movable types kept at the Päivälehden museo in Helsinki (found via @musicaltypography) + book about printing in Finland: “Kirjapainotaidon oppikirja” (1923) with a comprehensive section regarding music typesetting - link.
Very like a whale. 200th anniversary of Herman Melville's birth.
To mark the 200th anniversary of Herman Melville's birth the Bodleian Library invited contributions to the collective edition of 'Extracts' from Herman Melville's 1851 novel, Moby-Dick. I’m proud to be one of the contributors.
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1. Boekkunstbeurs. 09-10.11.19, Leiden (NL).
2. ‘Expres per ongeluk’ exhibition by E.Schneider in a brand new Rufus Gallery in Ghent.
3. Displacement Prints Exchange. Call for submissions. Deadline 30.11.2019.
4. ‘A Show of Hands' celebrates one of printing's most famous visual icons: the printer's fist or ‘manicule’. 30.09 - 19.10.2019, Corsham Court campus, Bath Spa University (UK).
Open doors days at the Letterpress Corner. 28-29.09
On Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 of September we will open the doors of Letterpress Corner in Ghent. You are all welcome between 10 am and 5 pm for a nice chat, a guided tour in the studio, demonstrations, info about the upcoming workshops and explanation about the use of the studio for your own projects.
Btw, if you register for any of our workshops during the open door days, you will receive a 10% discount;)
I’m looking forward to welcoming you!
Armina
Letterpress Corner
Dok-Zuid 23
9000 Ghent
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1. Open Doors Days at the Letterpress Corner. 28-29.09, Ghent.
2. Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair is the only fair in London to deal solely in contemporary printmaking. 07-10.11, London.
3. Very Like a Whale. This display marks 200 years since the birth of Herman Melville with 21st-century prints inspired by his most famous fictional creation, Moby-Dick.
18.10.19-05.01.20, Oxford.
4. A limited edition of "The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, using historic letterpress technology at the TYPA studio, Tartu, Estonia.