1. Hooksmith is a film about Russell Frost, a New Zealand born, former fly fisher who now runs Hooksmith Press, producing letterpress prints in his workshop based in East London.
2. International Summer Courses – Printmaking And Textile Art (PATA) - Łódź, Poland, 2017 are designed for beginners and experienced artists - website & Facebook page
3. Ladies of Letterpress is teaming up with Firecracker Press and Central Print Studios to bring you a combined letterpress event in St. Louis, MO, September 28-October 1, 2017 - link
4. Shipley Wayzgoose, 03.06.2017 at Kirkgate Center (UK) - link
The program of Drukdrukdruk graphic arts festival is online. 06-07.05.2017
In one of my previous posts I've mentioned Drukdrukdruk graphic arts festival organised by KUNSTWERKT during the weekend of 6 & 7th of May. During this weekend more than 50 printmaking artists/studio's, museums and art schools in Flanders and Brussels will be reflecting the full spectrum of graphic techniques including screen printing, lino, litho, etching, monotype, letterpress printing and will be offering an activity, such as demonstration, guided tour, workshop, etc.
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1. Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, &c.: The 1874 Masterpiece of Colorful Typography, a new book from Rizzoli will be available for sale from May 16, 2017
2. BLOCD Typesetting - Candy Movable Types, a concept by BLOCD (Barcelona)
3. The National Original Print Exhibition is open for submissions until 20.06.17. Enter here
4. W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design. Written & designed by Bruce Kennett. The first comprehensive biography of one of the most innovative designers of the 20th century. Support the project on Kickstarter.
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1. Bookbinders' Fair, Sunday 9 April 2017, Sint Niklaas, Belgium
2. BABE 2017: Bristol Artists Book Event. The sixth biennial festival of artist book making, featuring the work of bookmakers and small presses from around the world. 01 -02.04.2017
3. Full Programme of AEPM annual conference 11-14 May 2017 at The Museum of Typography, Chania, Crete (Greece)
4. Printing the ancient way keeps Buddhist texts alive in Tibet - link
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1. On the Lower East Side of Manhattan, single volumes are trimmed and glued by hand as they have been in this tiny workshop for the last 50 years - link
2. DADA ist 100 exhibition is currently on display at the Museum der Arbeit in Hamburg
3. Librarium is an archive of hundreds illustrated publications Russian emigration did between World Wars I and II curated by Fiodor Soumkine
4. Vernissage druk druk druk grafiek expo in Wide screen gallery in Gent, 31.03-31.05.17
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1. Print enthusiasts from across the UK are traveling to Clyro on Saturday 1st April for the inaugural Baskerville Wayzgoose. FB event page - link
2. Green Door Printmaking Studio heartily invite national and international printmakers to participate in their 9th annual exchange (IPE 2017)! Deadline: 31 August 2017
3. we ♥ paper is a new platform that allows printers to promote their workshops and users to find and book them - link
4. 'Typographic Summer Program' with Dafi Kühne is an intense 2 week summer program in Switzerland for international graphic design students. Check it out!
Christmas Cards Exchange 2016
Participating in the Christmas Cards Exchange project has already become a good tradition by now. The project is organized by the group of enthusiastic letterpress printers from the UK, but the participants are coming from the whole of the Europe & US and it is an absolute joy to receive the letterpress printed Christmas cards from fellow designers/ printers. Thank you! Check out all cards here.
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