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. ‘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. Makeready 2020. A virtual Symposium for Letterpress Educators. 20-24.07.
2. Typographics is a design festival for people who use type. The annual event series, now in its 6th year, is focused on contemporary typography and where its future may lie. This year’s events will be hosted online.
3. An online tribute to Milton Glaser hosted by Eye magazine.
4. Check out the Hamilton Hangs - link
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1. ‘Take a tour of my collection: vintage typewriters’, by Dr Vaibhav Singh, University of Reading (UK). Did you know that the idea of the keyboard itself is a legacy of a very different era of the communications. Before it took its current form, the keyboard was literally a musical instrument adapted to the letters of the alphabet. Have you ever wondered why we use a ‘keyboard’ for typing? What do typewriters without a keyboard look like? Vaibhav Singh takes us on a tour of his collection of vintage typewriters, exploring how we have thought about text and technology, how the keyboard we use today has been one of many alternatives and how the processes and tools for writing have been adapted, modified and challenged.
2. Opportunity for local artists to exhibit in TYPA gallery during the month of July 2020.
3. The Dafi Kühne Printing Show™ is a series of educational letterpress printing videos. Poster designer, educator and letterpress printer Dafi Kühne is sharing his most secret printing recipes. Hot off the press. Go ahead and start cooking right away! 5 brand new episodes are coming up in summer 2020!
4. Awayzgoose is coming! Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum will partner with the American Printing History Association (APHA) for this year's Wayzgoose. Plans are under way for a dynamic and diverse, online "AWAYzgoose" to be held the first week of November 2020. More details and registration opening soon!
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1. Glasgow Print Fair is coming to a sofa near you. You'll be able to purchase directly from each printmaker. Open on the 27th of June and close again on the 31st of July.
2. As “birthday gift” for the first 25 years (1995–2020), Tipoteca Italiana asked 25 designers and printers, from all over the world, to design and print a poster. The project 25×25. Tipoteca 25 was conceived in this way. Starting from Sunday, June 21, the twenty-five posters will be shown in the Gallery (plus an “extra” poster made by Tipoteca) in a temporary exhibition open until October 2020. I’m so grateful to be part of it and looking forward to visiting this amazing place anytime soon - link
3. United in isolation. an online letterpress festival. One more episode! S1E10 Saturday, 20 June 2020 Starting 19:00 CEST.
4. A novel by American writer Alix Christie about the 42-line Gutenberg Bible. The book was published by "Demon Press".
Alix Christie "Gutenberg’s Apprentice" (Аликс Кристи «Подмастерье Гутенберга»)
Translation from English by Maxim Nemtsov
Editor: Shashi Martynova
Proofreader: Natalia Gribenyuk
Design: Evgeny Grigoryev
Illustrator and engraver: Grigory Babich
Lettering for a dust jacket: Oleg Matsuev
Fonts: JAF Lapture (designer - Tim Arens, Cyrillic version - Oleg Matsuev), Gutenberg (Alter Littera)
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1. Schrift Publishers (Журнал и издательство «Шрифт») just published a brilliant and intimate interview by Rustam Gabbasov with an art historian, author, educator and the grandson of Alexander Rodchenko — Alexander Lavrentiev and his daughter, a teacher and historian of graphic design Yekaterina Lavrentieva.
2. Type specimens collected by Archivio Tipografico, a letterpress printshop and graphic design studio based in Torino, Italy - link
3. Printmaking podcasts by pine | copper | lime - link
4. Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters. New date! - link