1.OPEN CALL for TYPA residency 2023 - link
2. De Dikke Ziel pop-up during Gentse Feesten - link
3. Limited edition letterpress printed cards and posters for sale at the museum shop - link
4. De drukkerijafdeling van het Industriemuseum draait op volle toeren! Tijdens de drukdemo’s zie je gepassioneerde (oud-)drukkers aan het werk op de historische persen en letterzetmachines. Ter gelegenheid van de Feesten gaan ze aan de slag met typisch Gentse spreuken en historische Gentse Feesten-affiches uit de collectie van het Industriemuseum. Kom langs en ga naar huis met een Feestenposter! 19.07, 21.07 - link
Quick links
1.Thursday Late. Discover the Ghent Museums in the evening! Every first Thursday of the month, various Ghent museums open their doors to the general public. Enjoy the newest exhibitions and various museum collections until 10 pm. And don't forget to check out the printing department of the Museum of Industry as there will be demonstrations and you can print something yourself 😉 - link
2. Critical Approaches to Typography. Research into the interaction between typographic conventions and the digital age. Summer School | 22 - 26.08.22. This summer school will take place on location at the University of Antwerp - link
3. Artist Residency 2023 at Frans Masereel Centrum - link
4. Boekbindbeurs, Sint-Niklaas, 10.04.22 - link
'Ka-ching!' Posters for the Museum of Industry
To celebrate the opening of the new temporary exhibition 'Ka-ching!' at the Museum of Industry, 2 letterpress printed posters has been added to the museum shop.
Read More'This exhibition introduces you to contemporary purchasing behaviour, mass consumption and consumerism. You are also welcomed to a typical corner shop from the 1960s with stacks of cans, jars of candy and an old-fashioned balance scale on the counter. '
Born in Armenia, grew up between Russia and the Netherlands and now living in Belgium chasing my graphical madness.
Proud to be a part of this series of designers portraits (Dutch-spoken), filmed by Sebastiaan Vandierendonck (Walbaum Brothers) at the Museum of Industry (Ghent) this summer. Here is my short story about being born in Yerevan (Armenia), moving to Moscow (Russia), spending my childhood at the Embassy of the Soviet Union in The Hague (Netherlands). Speaking four languages, having a stammer and which influence it had on my professional life (spoiler: it is OK ; ). About my graphical journey in Belgium where I live for the last 18 years, my graphic design heroes and the importance of typesetting with wood/metal type and letterpress printing for future graphic designers.
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David Armes. Artist's talk from the Museum of Industry in Ghent. Monday 06.12.2021.
For the coming week David Armes from Red Plate Press (UK) will be an artist in residence at the printing department of the Museum of Industry in Ghent. Discovering the collection and making some new work. Looking forward to see the results and enjoy the artist's talk David will be giving on Monday 6 December at 16 o’clock.
And here is the link to follow the talk online - link
(it is free, no registration is required).
DAVID ARMES
Biography
David Armes is a visual artist from the north of England working with print, language and geography. His work is frequently site-specific and considers how experience of place can be represented. He has been working primarily with letterpress printing on paper for over 10 years and the final forms can vary in shape and size from large sculptural paper installations to small artists’ books. Through using what was once an industrial print process, he is interested in where the multiple meets the unique, where the ephemeral meets the archival. His recent commissions include work for The Poetry Society, Nordic Summer University and the University of Oxford’s Centre for Digital Scholarship and he is a current Visiting Fellow at the British Library. He travels regularly for residencies in the UK, US and across Europe and his work is held in collections such as the Bodleian Library (University of Oxford), Museum für Druckkunst (Leipzig, Germany) and the Fine Art and Design Library, University of Bergen Library (Norway).
Why I’d like to come to the Industriemuseum and what my plans are
I visited the Industriemuseum in 2017 and was immediately struck by the powerful stories held within the collection and building. I knew this was a place I wanted to revisit one day on a longer residency. For the past few years I have been creating a print and artist's book series called ’Text Landscapes’: pieces of typographic art that are a record of my response to a place. I will create a new iteration of this series during my residency, pulling together sources of oral history, conversations with people and my observations and photographs of the city. The history, and the present day, of printing and graphic arts in Ghent will be a wonderful inspiration.
Links:
www.redplatepress.com
www.redplatepress.com/prints.html
Instagram / Twitter / Facebook: @redplatepress
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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.
Read MoreLook ma, we're on TV!
Would you like to visit the Museum of Industry from the comfort of your couch? It's possible! Join Hilde Langeraert, curator of the Museum of Industry, on a tour through the permanent exhibitions 'About people and machines' and 'Three centuries of the graphic industry'. And if you look closely, you can even get a glimpse of the brand new textile department as well as the printing department! See you there ;)