The very first steamroller printing event organized by the MIAT museum and Topo Copy was a success. It took place this weekend at DOK, Ghent and it was great fun!
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Gentse Feesten 2012
Alongside with activities at the printing department, we did a little giveaway to announce the upcoming events at DOK, organized by Topo Copy and MIAT museum.This bookmark was given to the visitors of the museum during the Gentse Feesten. Printed at the museum and cutted on Poirier cutting machine from 1900 operated by hand (not an easiest task I must say).
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Gentse Feesten. Poster n°2
Spent this weekend typesetting poster n°2. The poster should inform about steamroller printing event organized by the museum during the Gentse Feesten in collaboration with Topo Copy. The idea is to make a typographic poster in combination with a linocut illustration of steamroller (which is nearly finished by now).
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Gentse Feesten 2012. Intertype.
Alfred Biliet operating an Intertype hot metal caster.
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Gentse Feesten. Poster n°1
To announce various activities at the MIAT museum during the Gentse eesten I'm making a couple of posters. The first poster is typeset from wood and metal type and for the second one I will make a linocut. Here are some 'work in progress' pictures of the first poster and as you can see I still have a lot of work to do:)
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Yerevan - World Book Capital
Exactly one month ago, Yerevan, the city where I was born, received the title of World Book Capital. On this significant occasion and to celebrate the 500 Years of Armenian Printing, the Ministry of Culture and Yerevan City Hall have organized various cultural events all over the Yerevan.
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Call for entries. 30th Anniversary Poster & Broadside Exhibit
image by Interrobang letterpress
"In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the founding of the LGNE, the Letterpress Guild of New England (1982-2012), it was decided to mount an exhibition to educate, entertain, and inform the public. What better form than the letterpress poster and broadside, mediums which have always served that purpose."
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exhibition
September 1st - 30th, 2012
The Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, Massachusetts