1. TYPA's annual Linocut Contest comes once again, this year's theme being 'time'. The contest is open to all artists and non-artist from all over the world and all ages. With the contest also comes an exhibition in TYPA gallery that ends with announcing the winners of the contest in three categories. More information and the regulation can be found here.
2. The Bodleian Libraries invite applications from experienced printers and book artists for a residency of one month, during academic year 2020-21. Deadline: 3 April 2020 - link
3. St Bride Foundation Wayzgoose 17.05.2020 - link
4. Join the Cult of Type. Typographic summer programme with Dafi Kühne - link
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1. Edinburgh Printmakers are delighted to announce the first-ever EP Graphics and Illustration Fair, housed in Castle Mills, the largest centre for print in Europe and a beautifully restored heritage building. Deadline - 12 - 25 February 2020 - link
2. Verjaardagsfeest Christoffel Plantin, 15.03.20, Museum Plantin-Moretus - link
3. KBR launches BelgicaPeriodicals. The website BelgicaPeriodicals gives you access to a selection of journals and periodicals published over two centuries, from 1813 to the present day. Thanks to the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) process, you can now perform a full-text search in 470.617 pages of periodicals that are preserved in the General Reading Room and the Music Department. link
4. Amazing specimen from the St. Petersburg printing house from 1870: apart from regular type examples they had “Our father in heaven” written in 325 languages from all over the world - link
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1. TYPA Artist in Residence 2020 - link
2. Limited Edition Art Fair Hosted by Villa Empain - Fondation Boghossian. 14-16.02.20 - link
3. Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters - link
4. The importance of place: printing in the context of history and society. The annual conference of the Association of European Printing Museums. Offenbach, Germany. 28-30.05.20. Organised by the Klingspor Museum and the Haus der Stadtgeschichte (Offenbach Local History Museum) - link (cancelled)
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1. Papier Carbone n°4 festival. 08-09.05.20, Charleroi (BE) - link
2. Atelier Zeven. Opening of the new art studio in Ghent (BE). 07.02.20 - link
3. David Pearson on hand-setting type for Oliver Jeffers’ new book - link
4. The Burgundian Summerhouse - Eliza Pepermans at the Rufus Gallery. 08.02.20.
Unfold the wrinkles of time.
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.