Since 2013 Martijn van der Blom and Roy Scholten have been using LEGO bricks to create their printmaking art. October 2023 sees the release of a special bi-lingual publication representing the results of ten years of printing and playing.

Martijn van der Blom started using LEGO bricks to build printable compositions. A collaboration with Roy Scholten produced the first series of works: the Dino cards.

This project was the starting point for the many hundreds of prints they would produce in the following years. Print & Play. The Art of LEGO Letterpress showcases six projects. They illustrate the characteristics of printing with LEGO bricks and showcase how this can be applied to producing more personal works.

50 Birds
One of the eye-catching series is the 50 Birds project by Roy Scholten. Using LEGO bricks, he is printing fifty bird species that can be found in The Netherlands. The wide range of shapes, colours and patterns make this a subject ideally suited for exploring the opportunities of LEGO Letterpress. Currently, forty-seven of fifty birds have already been printed.

QUNZ
In 2016, Martijn van der Blom started work on a typeface that would eventually be named the QUNZ. Martijn uses an architectural approach. Each character is like a building. The compositions that he built for each character are not broken down but kept in a typecase, just like the other letters in the printmaking studio. The QUNZ characters make regular appearances in his other works.

Print & Play. The Art of LEGO Letterpress has been launched during the Drukkunstbeurs (Printing arts fair) in Amersfoort on Saturday, October 28. The publication appears in an edition of 250 and can be purchased through www.tacit.studio.

The Hilversum Method. Exhibition at Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.

The Hilversum Method presents selected works from ten years of prints made using LEGO Letterpress.

An exhibition will accompany the book Print & Play. The Art of LEGO Letterpress. The original works that can be found in the book will be on the show. Martijn and Roy also collaborated on a new series of prints for the exhibition.

The opening is on Sunday, November 19 at 3 pm.
The exhibition runs till Sunday, February 3 at Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.

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