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Day of printing 2020 – update
[A word from the organisers...] Dear colleagues and others interested in taking part in the Day of printing 2020, The new project website for the Day of printing 2020 is now online here and with it the registration form. Around 30 events have already been registered in the first two days! The old inactive…
In memoriam: Alan Connell, founder of the Penrith Museum of Printing
Alan Connell, founder of the Penrith Museum of Printing in Australia, passed away on Saturday 11th January 2020. In 1939 Alan was indentured for five years to the printer J.S. Horton from whom he learned art and craft of hand composing and the operation of the linotype linecasting machine. He served the last two years…
News from the organisers of the Day of printing 2020
Dear colleagues, dear prospective organiser of events for the Day of Printing 2020, we hope you had a nice relaxed festive season! The highly successful Day of printing which was organised in the Spring of last year will take place again this year in the 15 March. And with the new year, our project website…
Two courses on the identification of image-making techniques
Identification of prints In cooperation with IADA (International Association of Book and Paper Conservators) Lecturer: Hildegard Homburger, Language: English Participants: 8 Dates: Berlin, 12.-13. October 2020 Registration: hombu@freenet.de Content Artistic and industrial printing techniques undergo constant development. Modern technology allows a great variety of relief, intaglio, lithography, screen and digital print. Therefore, the artistic prints…
The value of books: forthcoming Institut d’histoire du livre summer school
The Institut d'histoire du livre is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for this year’s Lyon Book History Workshop to be held 29 June - 2 July 2020. The Lyon Book History Workshop’s main purpose is to improve skills in the interpretation and understanding of specific fields relating to our written and…
The Klingspor Museum Offenbach opens its new permanent exhibition
Visitors to the Klingspor Museum can now discover its history and collections thanks to the new permanent exhibition which it recently opened. A selection of highlights are now on display has been selected with a view to providing a general overview of the Museum's extraordinarily rich collections. They are organised in three distinct galleries: the…
La Fondation Louis Jou to republish Andre Suarès
In 2018, under the auspices of the national Commemoration of André Suarès, the Louis Jou Foundation decided to republish his text The Art of the Book, designed, composed, laid out and printed by Louis Jou in 1928 in a print run of 37 copies. It very quickly sold out and became impossible to find. In…
Really bad news! Melbourne Museum of Printing collection to be sold off before the end of the month
Early in 2018 we posted a message from Michael Isaachsen, founder and curator of the Melbourne Museum of Printing indicating that the MMOP's collections and activities were under threat. Well, the worst has now come to the worst and the MMOP's entire collection is going to be auctioned off before the end of November. It…
AEPM closes its Flickr gallery of printing museums
The former Flickr museum photo albums are now all available directly on the AEPM's website As part of the redesign of the AEPM's website, the Association's Flickr gallery has been closed down and the photo albums have been incorporated into the Galleries section of the new-look site which now offers over forty photo albums of…
John Jarrold Printing Museum finds a new home
New location announced for the John Jarrold Printing Museum St Peter Parmentergate in King Street, Norwich, has been named as the new home for the John Jarrold Printing Museum. Currently vacant, the beautiful church in the care of Norwich Historic Churches Trust will, over the coming months, be turned into a fully working museum with…
Crowdfunding campaign to release ‘The Little Prince’ letterpress edition
TYPA (formerly the Estonian Print and Paper Museum) is currently running a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to support the printing of a limited letterpress edition of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The text will be cast on a Soviet version of the Linotype machine and pages printed on a Victoria Polygraph cylinder press…
Korrex Frankfurt Kraft
Call for information on a 1965 Korrex Frankfurt Kraft with blower Last week, I worked on the press in the Royal Library in Brussels and managed to get it all up and running again. I have, however, a few questions. Hopefully another owner of the Frankfurt Kraft will be able to help me further or…
Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum welcomes new director
Implementing strategic plans, fundraising and budgeting at the forefront The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum has announced the selection of Peter Crabbe, Ed.D to the newly created position of Executive administrative director. He will focus on providing leadership in the management of our dynamic non-profit organization. Dr. Crabbe will oversee refining, developing and implementing…
Card players in art – works from the National Lottery Collection
[Turnhout, Belgium] New exhibition at the National Playing Card Museum Museum van de Speelkaart (National Playing Card Museum) 26 October 2019 – 30 April 2020 Everyone knows the National Lottery with its popular products such as Lotto or Win for life. Less well-known is that the Lottery also manages an extensive art heritage collection. In…
[Conference] Post-war printing history: technologies, processes, products
A conference organised by the Printing Historical Society, the Centre for Print History & Culture, and the Centre for the Study of the Book Bodleian Library, Oxford 10-11 October 2019 Tickets are now on sale from the event page on Eventbrite, where details of the final programme are also to be found. Conference registration is…
Typeface directory project – crowdfunding for diversity of fonts
Typorama houses and uses nearly 3,000 different sets of types for hand typesetting and Linotype, Monotype, Typograph and Ludlow composition. In order to be able to use this ever-growing variety of typefaces, the first volume of the Typorama typeface directory was completed in 2008. Each entry in the directory showed a sample word and a…
5th poster contest: Typography – window to the world
The Typography Museum of Chania launches its fifth poster competition Following the great success of the 4th International Poster Contest about Typography, with 570 entries from 51 countries, the Museum of Typography in Chania expands its field of interest and invites artists from around the world to participate in the 5th contest themed Typography -…
A crowdfunding project to help save collotype printing
Collotype is a unique technique, but unfortunately almost forgotten. There is a crowdfunding campaign in Germany with the aim of registering collotype with Unesco as a form of intangible cultural heritage in urgent need of preservation, and supporting the few active workshops still in existence. They have three days left to reach their target of…
The history of books and printing in Korea
Rare Book School is pleased to announce a new course: The History of Books and Printing in Korea (H-160). Join renowned curator Beth McKillop of the Victoria and Albert Museum July 28–August 2 at the Harvard-Yenching Library for a survey of books in Korea since 700 CE, with contextual references to developments in China and…
John Jarrold Printing Museum to be downsized, building to be demolished
[Norwich, United Kingdom] Following a decision by the City of Norwich's planning committee on 14th March the John Jarrold Printing Museum will soon cease to exist in its present form. By a narrow vote the City approved plans to develop the old Jarrold Print Works site where the Museum is located with the result that…