1. Jaroslav Benda 1882–1970. Typographic designs and letterforms. Extraordinary book about one of the important figures in the history of Czech Republic - link
2. In case you’ve missed the first episode of ‘Letterpress United. An online letterpress festival’ you can check it out the first episode here - link
3. В рамках параллельной программы к выставке «ВХУТЕМАС 100. Школа авангарда» в Музее Москвы 15 декабря пройдет онлайн-лекция «Типографика ВХУТЕМАСа», которую прочитает издатель, преподаватель школы дизайна РАНХиГС, выпускающий редактор журнала «Шрифт», сокуратор выставки Рустам Габбасов - link
4. TYPA is joint winner of the ILUCIDARE Special Prizes 2020 - link
St Bride Library 125th Anniversary. Help to share the power of language & secure their future!
St Bride Foundation is an independent cultural institute which cares for an internationally significant collection covering print, design and typography whilst working with the creative industries locally, nationally and internationally. Help to reopen their building and celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Library. read more
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1. The Plantin-Moretus Museum has an extraordinary collection of 14,000 woodblocks. 14,000 examples of true craftmanship, drawings masterly cut in wood. Be impressed! - link
2. ‘The Secret History of Writing’ documentary by BBC - link
3. Piano variations on Jesus Christ Superstar by Stefano Bollani printed at Opificio Della Rosa. Original woodcut by Umberto Giovannini - link
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1. Woodblock Webinar. Monday 07 December 2020 from 16:00 to 19:00. In this webinar Museum Plantin-Moretus will present the process and results of the woodblock project (2019-2020). Invited speakers will also give insight into specific research topics dealing with woodblocks. Check it out! link
2. ‘The Canary Islands to Leipzig & back again’ by Matthias Beck - link
3. Whittington Press will begin shipping Matrix 36 mid-November - link
4. Voter Mobilization prints are available from Affiliates around the United States for $11.03 (plus local taxes, and shipping and handling where applicable). All posters are available for free download on the condition you spread them far and wide and credit the artist - link
From Futura to the Future. Leipzig.
In the first week of October Letterpress Workers will be holding an event at the Museum of Printing in Leipzig called “From futura to the future: International Letterpress Workers”. There will be a live printing session as well as a curated exhibition of prints produced by Letterpress Workers over the years. Delighted to be part of it! These two posters are going to Leipzig (and hopefully I would be going there too ;) ) The exhibition will be open for public from 4.10.20 til 15.11.20.
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Let it all begin!
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