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June 19, 2023

1.Book presentation. Letterpress Printing: Past, Present, Future - link
2. Letterpress Workers 2023. Printers with dirty hands. 22-24.06.2023, Milan (IT) - link
3. RHok Expo. 24-26.06.2023, Etterbeek (BE) - link
4. Sign the petition to save the Gerstenberg type foundry in Darmstadt (DE) - link

Three-day workshop for Kalamazoo Book Art Center students at the Museum of Industry

June 15, 2023

Summer is on its way but before taking a well-deserved holiday, we had an interesting activity to look forward to: a three-day workshop for 11 students from Kalamazoo Book Arts Center who came from Michigan under the supervision of Jeff Abshear. The workshop, taught by Thomas Gravemaker and yours truly, took place at the printing department of the Museum of Industry in Ghent, equipped with proofing presses and a large collection of wood and metal type.

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June 9, 2023

1.Opendeurdag van de bookbinderij in het Wittockiana. 25.06.2023 - link
2. Summer workshops at the Atelier Blauwhof - link
3. Zomersalon 2023: buy local #3 at the Kunsthal. 14.07-13.09.2023 - link
4. Double expo at the Tandemm Grafik. 10.06-09.09.2023 - link

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June 1, 2023

1. Teambuilding workshops in het Industriemuseum gaan door! Bundel de krachten met je collega's of vrienden voor deze teambuilding. Duik in de lettercollectie van het museum en ontwerp en druk in kleine groepjes een eigen affiche op A3-formaat. Ideaal om nadien op te hangen op de werkplek - link (kan elke dag geboekt worden tijdens de openingsuren)
2. Slowres book by Tipos en su tinta - link
3. Joh. Enschedé Fellowship - link
4. Middeleeuws ontbijt en typowandeling - link

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May 18, 2023

1.Artist Residency 2024 in Frans Masereel Centrum - link
2. Zine Happening 8 in Kunsthal Gent. 20-21.05.2023 - link
3. Armenian Calligraphy: History and Modernity [iBB Live #47] with Ruben Malayan - link
4. Shipley Wayzgoose. 10.06.2023 at the Kirkgate Centre - link

3 days of printing fun or making posters at the Atelier t.

May 15, 2023

On Thursday 27 April, armed with my backpack and a large map full of letterpress printed posters I headed to Atelier t in Bierbeek. To prepare everything for a three-day workshop and run some tests before everyone arrives.

Letterpress learning programme 2023. Atelier t.

April 24, 2023

As the Easter holidays was approaching it was time for the second meet-up for our Meester-leerling project, led by Thomas Gravemaker with Niels Goovaerts and yours truly as exemplary students. This time our 3-day course took place at the Atelier t in Bierbeek. A newly built studio with 3 proofpresses and a large collection of metal and wood type seemed like a perfect playground for our next assignment: setting text. A long piece of text.

October 31, 2026

Time for a Birthday Calendar

This year, the Industriemuseum celebrated its 50th anniversary. With the museum shop recently redesigned, it felt like the perfect moment to create something special: a birthday calendar, typeset entirely by hand using wood type and ornaments from the museum’s rich collection, and printed on a Heidelberg KSBA cylinder press.

October 2, 2026

Type walk in Ghent. Before & after. Oudburg.

When walking through Oudburg in Ghent, which I do quite often, I have noticed a number of small changes over the years. Signs disappear. Façades are repainted. Businesses move on. New lettering takes their place.

None of these changes is particularly dramatic. But together they tell us something about how the visual identity of a street evolves.

July 5, 2026

Type Walk in Ghent. Before & After. Looking up: the fading letters of Cockney's Distillery.

A couple of weeks ago, during the annual flea market on Lange Violettestraat, I found myself doing what I probably do too often: looking up.

While most people were browsing records, ceramics and old books, my attention drifted towards the façades. That's when I noticed it. Barely visible beneath layers of age and weather, a painted sign slowly emerged from the brickwork.

May 24, 2026

Type walk in Ghent. Before & after. 90 years of Dossche Sport.

Dossche Sport is one of the symbols of Ghent’s rich cycling heritage — a business rooted in professional racing history, family tradition, and nearly a century of dedication to the bicycle culture of the city.

March 28, 2026

Type walk in Ghent. Before & after. Marchandises & stories.

Tucked away near Sint-Jacobsplein in Ghent once stood a place that many locals still remember with a certain nostalgia: Marchand’10. The name Marchand’10 (Marchandise) — French for “merchant” — suited the place perfectly. This was never just a shop, but a world of its own. It felt more like wandering into a densely packed cabinet of curiosities.

January 18, 2026

Type walk in Ghent. Before & after. Only “Beerhouse” remains.

Het Waterhuis aan de Bierkant is one of Ghent’s most recognizable cafés. With its large beer selection and sunny terrace along the water, it attracts locals and visitors from all over the world. But this is more than just a place to have a drink—it’s a building with a long and surprising history.

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