1.Paper Trail takes you on a journey through worlds created on/with paper: fragile, tangible, and full of traces of hands, thoughts, and time, 30.01.25 - 15.03.2026, Oever Gallery, Oostende - link
2. The Art of the Alphabet in Northern Italy, June 22–July 3, 2026. Taught by Rory Sparks, Dan Rhatigan, and Riccardo Olocco and Mitch Blessing. This session includes 12 workshop days, including studio time at Tipoteca Italiana and day trips throughout the region - link
3. Mini-Expo // Lang leve de zwarte kunst. Van 24 januari tot 23 februari 2026 presenteren de deelnemers van de jaaropleiding ‘Lang leve de zwarte kunst’ hun werk in een mini-expo. Een jaar lang verdiepten ze zich onder begeleiding van ervaren rotten Thomas Gravemaker, Armina Ghazaryan en Niels Goovaerts in de kunst van het letterzetten. In de expo tonen ze, naast eigen werk, ook het eindwerk dat ze maakten als slotopdracht. 24.01.2025 - 23.02.2026, Industriemuseum - link
4. Atelier in beeld is terug! Doe je ook mee? De inschrijvingen gaan open op 6 januari - link
5. International Open Call for artists and publishers to exhibit their work at Helsinki Central Library Oodi as part of the Helsinki Analog Festival in April 2026. Deadline: 21.12.2025
6. The 7-day Short Session is ideal for graphic design and poster lovers. Similar to the Full Session the workshop combines analog design and production tools with contemporary typographic poster design. It is the perfect opportunity for a one-week dive into letterpress poster design with Dafi Kühne in his vast letterpress studio in Näfels. Session I: February 1–7, 2026 - link
Quick links
1.MAGRAFICA’25, vernissage, 15.05.2025 - link
2. Collage workshop, 05.06.2025, Industriemuseum (BE) - link
3. Letterpress printer and designer Dafi Kühne (SU) visits Amsterdam for the Dutch presentation of his new book Poster Cult. 13.06.2025, GWA (NL) - link
4. International typographic project PoeTry 2025. Deadline for submissions 27.06.2025 - link
Quick links
1.ToCall for submission, No.21 Autocracy, deadline 31.01.2025 - link
2. Podcast met Jo De Baerdemaeker, een letterontwerper en letterontwikkelaar - link
3. Exhibition ‘Workshop Show’ with Dafi Kühne in Gewerbemuseum (CH), 20.09.2024 - 16.03.2025 - link
4. The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade Conference 2025 is organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, and Northumbria University as part of the FWO research project ‘Partners in Innovation. Women Publishers as Knowledgeable Agents in the Low Countries' Book Trade (1550-1750)’. Call for papers, deadline 31.03.2025 - link
Typographic Summer Program with Dafi Kühne in Switzerland
"Typographic Summer Program" with Dafi Kühne is an intense 2-week summer program in Switzerland for international graphic design students and professionals. It started in 2016 with one summer session over 2 weeks and established over the last 3 years to a 2 session summer program.
The workshop’s goal is to bridge the gap between analog design and production tools and professional contemporary typographic posters. Students will go through a number of analog tasks to experience the layout qualities of simple type-only layouts. All the experiments and layout exercises will be realized with traditional letterpress printing presses and physical type. Through this very slow but accurate analog process, students will learn to put emphasis on concept and micro typography.
This program is a great opportunity for students to see and learn first hand from one of the few internationally successful contemporary letterpress poster designers. Besides of a lot of process results, sketches and small experimental prints, students will collaborate to produce each a letterpress printed typographic poster printed with
a variety of possible production tools like physical type
(wood & lead), chipboard, laser cut MDF, linoleum,
hand cast Ludlow type lines, and many more…
Every aspect of the design process that is taught and intensely trained with the tutors in an analog way will be easy to translate to the contemporary design practice for
the students' future career.
Dates/Schedule 2018
Session 1: From June 17th until June 30th.
Session 2: From August 5th until August 18th.
Applications for both sessions are open until March 30, 2018.
Check out the details here.