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
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
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1. United in isolation. Online letterpress festival featuring Phil Gambrill (Fresh Lemon Print, AUS), Sergei Besov (Demon Press, RU), Myrna Keliher (Expedition Press, USA). Saturday 18th of April 2020. Starting 19:00 CEST - link
2. iBookbinding decided to try a podcast/video chat format and invite some of the bookish people to discuss their recent projects, book industry news, and reply to some of your questions. The first guest next week will be Benjamin Elbel, owner of the Elbel Libro Bookbinding (NL) - link
3. Inky rebels weekly print challenge - link
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1. Fear/Hope - Una mostra di Letterpress Workers! Exhibition at BASE Milan.
2. Last spots for Dafi Kühne s wonderful summer program - link.
3. Lithography Schnellpresse anno 1904. Let's move a 114 year old 7.5 ton heavy lithography Schnellpresse from Switzerland to its new home in Southern Sweden - link.
4. Calling all Printmakers! Submissions are open for our National Original Print Exhibition, all forms of printmaking are eligible and successful entries will be exhibited Bankside Gallery from 19-30 September. Deadline 28 June.
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1. 'Old But Bold. It's Letterpress' - 7th Letterpress Workers Summit, 28-30.06.2018, Milan (IT).
2. Bookbinding is a unique and essential reference guide for designers, explaining industrial bookbinding techniques with a focus on the design and conception of print products.
3. Where Printed Words Transcend Time and Communicate What Can't Be Said - link.
4. A day at The Type Archive. 12.05.18, London (UK) - tickets.
Print Me Baby One More Type or LpW 2017
Just got back from Letterpress Workers Summit in Milan, 4 days filled with the joy of meeting like-minded people, learning from printmakers from all over the world, visiting museums and being genuinely inspired by what I saw. Even though this year I arrived one day later, missed the first day of the event and the 'Type and Ink' PechaKucha night, I've enjoyed every bit of it. The theme of this LpW edition was 'Resist', so each day the printmakers (approx. 40) divided into groups of 3 or 4 were producing some irresistible pieces of printwork using wood type and proof presses provided by Novepunti.
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