Despite the cancellation of the Letterpress Workers event in Milan due to ‘we all know what’ it was still decided to make a publication, as it was happening every year. This time it will be a box gathering letterpress printed works by the participants accompanied by a booklet. The theme ‘New Beginnings’ became a kind of reaction to the events surrounding us for the last couple of months. I embraced the idea of 'new beginnings', a fresh start. An opportunity to experiment with materials and genuinely have fun while printmaking. For me it all has started…from a CD. And not only because I've discovered a box of old (non-working) CD's and was looking for good use of it, but because music is playing a very important role in my life: music unites, music heals even when physical separation is trying to ruin the party.
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1. ‘From futura to the future. International Letterpress Workers.’ The exhibition shows selected works by international typographers, graphic designers and calligraphers. For the first time, an overview of the eight years of intensive typographic-artistic collaboration is presented in the Museum of Printing Art of Leipzig - link
2. Pills, Potions & Points: Letterpress Art in Science with Elisabeth Fraser. 21.07 - link
(please note that this talk will be happening online via Zoom)
3. Art Book Berlin 2020. Registration for the artists' book fair in Berlin is open. The fair is organized by Hanneke van der Hoeven and Corn.elius Brändle. 20-22 November, ‘Kunstquartier Bethanien’, Mariannenplatz, Berlin/Kreuzberg.
4. The Daily Heller: Belgium’s Vital Modernism - link
G is for Gouda
After being in lockdown for a few months I was looking forward to escaping the city of Ghent (even though I love my city). So when a friend of mine, active in the field of typewriter art, suggested accompanying her during a short trip for a little repair job for one of her typewriters to the city of Gouda, I immediately said 'yes!'. On Sunday morning, armed with map and cookies we left Antwerp and drove to Wie van Zoet Hout store in Gouda, the place to buy and repair typewriters. After arriving at the industry zone near the city of Gouda called GOUDasfalt and enjoying a cup of coffee with a cool name 'Man met bril koffie' and a delicious home-baked cake we headed to the blue warehouse.
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1. Makeready 2020. A virtual Symposium for Letterpress Educators. 20-24.07.
2. Typographics is a design festival for people who use type. The annual event series, now in its 6th year, is focused on contemporary typography and where its future may lie. This year’s events will be hosted online.
3. An online tribute to Milton Glaser hosted by Eye magazine.
4. Check out the Hamilton Hangs - link
The reissue of a typographic masterpiece. Aldo Novarese: Alfa-Beta.
The first edition of Alfa-Beta reviewed the evolution of writing systems and typography from their advent up to the present day. The first edition was published in 1964 by Progresso Grafico and distributed by G.B. Paravia & C. The book showcases a very specific point of view: it is one of very few works on the history of type originally written in Italian, and one of even fewer to have been written by a type designer rather than a historian or academic. It also marked the public debut of Novarese’s own typeface classification system.
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1. ‘Take a tour of my collection: vintage typewriters’, by Dr Vaibhav Singh, University of Reading (UK). Did you know that the idea of the keyboard itself is a legacy of a very different era of the communications. Before it took its current form, the keyboard was literally a musical instrument adapted to the letters of the alphabet. Have you ever wondered why we use a ‘keyboard’ for typing? What do typewriters without a keyboard look like? Vaibhav Singh takes us on a tour of his collection of vintage typewriters, exploring how we have thought about text and technology, how the keyboard we use today has been one of many alternatives and how the processes and tools for writing have been adapted, modified and challenged.
2. Opportunity for local artists to exhibit in TYPA gallery during the month of July 2020.
3. The Dafi Kühne Printing Show™ is a series of educational letterpress printing videos. Poster designer, educator and letterpress printer Dafi Kühne is sharing his most secret printing recipes. Hot off the press. Go ahead and start cooking right away! 5 brand new episodes are coming up in summer 2020!
4. Awayzgoose is coming! Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum will partner with the American Printing History Association (APHA) for this year's Wayzgoose. Plans are under way for a dynamic and diverse, online "AWAYzgoose" to be held the first week of November 2020. More details and registration opening soon!
image by Tipoteca Italiana
25x25. Tipoteca 25.
As “birthday gift” for the first 25 years (1995–2020), Tipoteca Italiana asked 25 designers and printers, from all over the world, to design and print a poster. The project 25×25. Tipoteca 25 was conceived in this way. Starting from Sunday, June 21, the twenty-five posters will be shown in the Gallery (plus an “extra” poster made by Tipoteca) in a temporary exhibition open until October 2020. I’m so grateful to be part of it and looking forward to visiting this amazing place anytime soon!
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