After visiting the Paper mill Herisem we headed to the National Bank museum in Brussels. Founded in 1982 the museum has an impressive collection of numismatic items, documents, books etc.
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Paper mill Herisem (BE)
MIAT. Wood type
Spent a lovely day printing specimens with Stan Van Steendam at the MIAT museum.
Emigre n°16
Got very lucky last weekend and added Emigre magazine n°16 (in very good condition) to my growing collection. The "Sound Design" issue has a letterpress printed cover designed and printed on chipboard at Independent Project Press by Bruce Licher.
Cyrillic wood type
Opificio della Rosa
"The Opificio della Rosa is dedicated to low environmental impact techniques whilst facilitating traditional and innovative methods of printmaking. The project is hosted at the Medieval Castle of Montefiore Conca."
This place is absolutely perfect if you want to follow printmaking workshop. Wonderful location, great view and fully equipped printing studio. Check out the pictures from the latest workshop given by Nick Morley (UK).
Letterproeftuin workshop
Graphic Design Festival Breda (NL) is a biannual festival taking place from 19 to 23 of September. The program of the festival is quite broad, it is a mix of exhibitions, lectures, workshops, urban interventions and parties. And if you want to get your hands dirty you can take part in a traveling letterpress workshop organized by Letterproeftuin.
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