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
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1.Namaak-Atelier. Valse boeken, valse covers, valse papieren. Het Namaak-atelier dompelt u onder in een fascinerende wereld waar afkeuring en bewondering samengaan, 12.10.2024 - 02.02.2025, Wittockiana (BE) - link
2. 10th Antwerp Academy Art Book Fair. 12.10.2024 - link
3. Expo. Marnix Everaert. De Schaduw van de Maan. 05.10 - 20.10.2024, Pijpketel - ruimte voor kunst, Zottegem (BE) - link
4. Workshop ‘kerstkaartjes drukken’, 29.10.2024, Industriemuseum, Gent (BE) - link
5. ‘Release Me’. Verborgen parels uit de collectie, tot 25.11.2024, Museum De Reede (BE) - link
6. ‘Bij ons in het museum’ van Museumdrukkerij IJzer & Lood (NL) - video
7. The Museum Plantin-Moretus presents the exhibition Ensor's States of Imagination about Ensor's remarkable graphic adventure, 28.09.2024 - 19.01.2025. Experiment with the intaglio technique to create your own print just like Ensor did - link
8. BoekAmbachtBeurs, 02.11.2024, Pieterskerk, Leiden (BE) - link
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1. Bezette Stad 100! Ga terug in de tijd en dompel je onder in de wereld waarin Van Ostaijen en zijn vrienden leefden en werkten. Van Antwerpen als bezette stad tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog naar Berlijn tijdens de roaring twenties waar de iconische bundel 'Bezette Stad' geschreven werd. Zaterdag 27 maart 2021 tot zondag 27 juni 2021 van 10:00 tot 17:00 - link
2. Stop Typographic Pollution! Typographic summer school with Dafi Kühne. Update: Dates for 2021 are out now! A detailed schedule will follow. Stay safe - link
3. Huis vol creatief talent. Dubbelexpo ‘Impressed by Plantin’ & ‘Papieren Stad’.
Zaterdag 13 maart 2021 tot zondag 11 april 2021 van 10:00 tot 17:00 - link
4. Can you identify fonts?
The National Museum of American History would be grateful for your help. Many thousands of fonts/batches of type and matrices in the collections need your expertise to identify them.
Can you spare a few hours or a few days?
Go to the Smithsonian Collections search page at: https://www.si.edu/Collections and plug in the word “matrices,” “type, font of” and “type, batch of,” and “wood type.” Some of the fonts don’t have identifiers or have a filler name like “Sans serif, Black letter, Roman letter.”
If you find any that you can identify or have suggestions about, for possible font names, please email your results to: boudreauj@si.edu (Joan Boudreau, Curator, Graphic Arts Collections, National Museum of American History).
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1. Short film about Jesse Marsolais who works in old ways – traditional methods of letterpress printing and letter carving in stone and wood - link
2. Christmas is coming! Pressing Matters magazine is offering 10% off all subscriptions taken out before the end of the year - link
3. The Plantin-Moretus Museum once again engaged creative talent to work with the collection of wood blocks. Twenty designers took part in The Print Project. From 105 strong candidates, a jury chose 20 artists who created a print inspired by the museum's impressive collection of woodcuts - link
4. Save the paper collection of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Den Haag) - link
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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
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1. The theme of ATypI: Association Typographique Internationale 2018 conference is 'Type Legacies: honouring the heritage, designing type today'. By honouring our heritage, we reflect on the rich tradition of type to gain insights into the contemporary practice and inspire the future. September 11–15, 2018, Antwerp, Belgium.
The call for presentations for ATypI 2018 is now open.
Deadline for submissions is Monday, April 30, 2018.
2. The 5th Bangkok Triennale International Print and Drawing exhibition - link.
3. A look inside Dafi Kühne Swiss Alps-based, mindblowingly vast letterpress studio, by AIGA, (image by Daniel Infanger)
4. Drukken, bladwijzers maken of een velletje papier marmeren in Plantin-Moretus museum tijdens de Erfgoeddag, 22.04.