1. Printing in Dutch. The Gallery at Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, UK. 8.05 – 21.07.2021 - link
2. This is an open call to any printmakers to get involved - a chance to have your artwork on our insert or featured in a showcase of creativity in the July edition of Pressing Matters magazine - more info
3. Virtual event. Rick Griffith, Evan Weissman, Stephen Brackett: Non-violence & Activism. 5.05.21 - link
4. Letterpress printing courses by Andy Kinnear - link
Quick links
1. Typographics conference, workshops and TypeLab. Typographics is a design festival for people who use type. Spread out between June 1 and July 1, 2021 - link
2. Meet the printmakers. Pressing matters & Atelier Indrukwekkend. 6 May - link
3. Making Printers’ Type. Man’s 500 Year Quest to Develop Better Methods - link
4. X - Censuur en Beeldcultuur. Nationaal Museum van de Speelkaart, Turnhout. 1 april tot 7 november 2021 - link
Quick links
1. Leipziger Typotage 2021 - link
2. Hamilton Hang: Chris Chandler - Neu Haus Press. 23.04.2021 - link
3. Impact 11 International Printmaking Conference - link
4. RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection preserves Hebrew wood type - link
Camiel Van Breedam in The Bibliotheca Wittockiana.
As travelling abroad remain restricted at the moment, we (me and my art-loving friend) are travelling every month within Belgium to visit museums we've never been to yet. Well, you can be a tourist in your own country, aren't you?
On Saturday morning, following our passion for books and discovering that we haven't been to The Bibliotheca Wittockiana yet, we took a train and started our journey. Upon arrival in Brussels, we decided to take a walk and enjoy the beauty of the city, soaking in the warm morning sun. So unusual for this time of the year.
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The Museum of Industry. Textile Posters.
After being absent from printshop for more than 2 months due to 'we all know what’ I'm happy to be back! As many of you might know my printshop 'Letterpress Corner' is currently closed for the public and I'm back at work at the printing department of the Museum of industry. Actively involved in the life of the printing department, as well as designing and typesetting posters from wood and metal type using a rich collection of the museum.
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Typographic Surprises! 26.02.2021
First of the Typographic Surprises! webinar series organised by Printing Historical Society. An online event not to be missed.
Dr Alexandra Franklin
A surprising journey to the third dimension
Librarians make every effort to keep things flat. When is it OK to go 3D? We will take a behind-the-scenes and inside-the-lines look at often-neglected collections of printing surfaces in one library, the Bodleian in Oxford. These testify to the three-dimensional history and nature of the printed page.
Alexandra is Co-ordinator of the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book and the Bodleian Bibliographical Press. She is the author of 'Woodcuts,' in Book Parts (2019) and of 'Casting Off: a journey in five starts,' in the journal Inscription 1, 2020.
Patrick Goossens
What came after punch cutting
At the outset of printing in the west, it is (almost) generally accepted that type was made via a steel punch driven in a copper matrix. The advent of the nineteenth, with its hankering for speed, efficiency and de-skilling, brought new technologies to the old trade. Pantographic punch and matrix cutting were one of them. Patrick will take us inside his Antwerp engraving room for a look at some of the different punch and matrix engraving equipment he has gathered over the last decades with a brief explanation and demonstration of the processes.
Born in Antwerp, the home-town of the Plantin-Moretus Museum, Patrick studied history at the University Antwerp and Louvain. Mesmerised by the Museum’s press room he started to collect and research historical printing and typecasting equipment. This collection has allowed him to research the tangible and intangible sides of printing history for his ongoing doctoral thesis on the dissemination of innovative printing technology in the nineteenth century, focusing on Belgium. Patrick has presented some of his preliminary findings, worldwide.
Martin Killeen
What is the use of a book without pictures?
This presentation will provide some perspectives on the illustration of early printed books including a brief comparison of the relatively few illustrated books of native literature published in England before 1700 compared to Continental Europe, especially Italy.
Martin Killeen, recently retired Rare Books Librarian at the Cadbury Research Library, spent more than thirty years exploiting the rich resources of the repository (printed books, archives and manuscripts) to support teaching, learning and research across all the disciplines within the University and beyond. This included delivering talks and presentations and using original materials to lead seminars and classes (which often cover themes relating to print and publishing history and physical bibliography). Martin also publishes papers based on the Cadbury Research Library's holdings.
Date And Time
Fri, 26 February 2021
19:00 – 21:00 CET
Register (free) - link