1. Printing in Offenbach: the art of a craft and the craft in the art. Annual (online) conference of the Association of European Printing Museums. 20-22 May 2021 - link
2. Camiel Van Breedam in Bibliotheca Wittockiana - link (+pictures)
3. “Around the world” is a collective project, a shared and ideal journey - link
4. Interesting article by Carl Middleton about wood type and so much more - 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. Tipoteca Talks #02 – David Pearson. 18.03.2021 - link
2. An online talk by Paul W. Nash for the Oxford Bibliographical Society. 04.03.2021 - link
3. An Unscripted Look at a Script Type. A conversation with Matthew Carter about the origins of Snell Roundhand. 02.03.2021 - link
4. David Wolske - Letterpress in Creative Cloud 20/27.03.2021 - link
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1. Online classes by Brody Neuenschwander - link
2. Linocut contest by TYPA museum in Tartu (EE) - link + rules
3. The last trained typecaster in Europe, Rainer Gerstenberg has announced his retirement by the end of this year - link + video
4. Hamilton Wood Type& Printing Museum online poster gallery - link
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1. 7th edition of the International Engraving Competition ON PAPER CONTEST 2021. The works of selected artists will be exhibited at the invisible Tinta Gallery in Barcelona. Deadline for registration: April 1, 2021.
2. Here is the Cafe Cliché - link
3. ToCall for submission - link
4. Tibetan Typeforms: the Historical Development of Tibetan Typefaces. 26.02.21. Event registration - link
Jo De Baerdemaeker will present his in-depth research regarding the origin, development, and typographical use of typefaces for the Tibetan writing system and how the Tibetan script evolved from woodblock to pixel. In addition to an introduction to Tibetan script characteristics, the chronological evolution of Tibetan type designs and typographic techniques, Jo will provide a rare insight into the motives behind the manufacturing of multiscript printing types at established polyglot printing houses.
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1. Meet Myrna Keliher. A Q&A with the artist behind the letterpress prints for season two of Poetry Unbound - link
2. Let's Get Printing (F-PRESS). A Kickstarter project by Tim Boulton - link
3. BBC Documentary - Bauhaus 100 - 100 Years of Bauhaus \ Walter Gropius - link
4. Explore the 15th century in our region through the images, stories and characters from the Library of the Dukes of Burgundy. KBR (BE) - link
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1. Inspired by St Bride. With Becky Chilcott, Dave Crossland, Tom Etherington, Alistair Hall, Sophie Hawkey-Edwards, Andrew Long, Simon Loxley, Sarah Pasquali, Vaibhav Singh and Kath Tudball.
14 January 2021. 7–9pm. Online via Zoom.
Tickets £5, £3 for concessions/students/Friends of St Bride - link
2. Reverting to Type 2020 is an exhibition of contemporary letterpress protest posters. These are artworks with something to say: sounding a warning signal about the global climate crisis, railing against fake news and surveillance capitalism, calling out racism, sexism and fighting for equal opportunities and, of course, reacting to the coronavirus pandemic.
This website serves as a digital record of the physical exhibition held at Standpoint Gallery in London, UK which displayed 200 posters from 105 artists in 16 countries.
Curated by Richard Ardagh and Graham Bignell of New North Press the project marks 10 years since their first Reverting to Type exhibition. As well as showcasing the work of the global letterpress community, New North Press have also produced twenty-six collaborative prints especially for the exhibition (cats A–Z) with invited artists, designers, poets, comedians, asylum-seekers, adults with learning disabilities and young people. Check out the full tour of the exhibition - link
3. Helmut Salden Uncovered 1:1 is the first international monograph on Helmut Salden (1910–96), exploring his original sketches and working drawings. The material spans the years 1939 through 1970. In those years, Salden was the most celebrated Dutch lettering artist. All drawings are reproduced at actual size and reveal in detail his pursuit of the ultimate form - link
4. Archivio Tipografico Online Store - link