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Critical approaches to typography: an international summer school
From 2 to 6 September 2019, the Plantin Institute of Typography and the University of Antwerp are organizing an international summer school about Critical approaches to typography. Nowadays we can choose between a long list of fonts; professional documents can be delivered with only a small effort. Due to the continued development in desktop publishing…
St Bride Printing Library to have new librarian
Good news for the St Bride Printing Library. The St Bride Foundation has announced the appointment of Sophie Hawkey-Edwards as Foundation Librarian. The appointment signals the Board’s ongoing commitment to the maintenance and development of the unique, world-class collection of the St Bride Printing Library. The St Bride Foundation Printing Library contains one of the…
Discover the Banknote Museum of the Ionian Bank, Corfu (Greece)
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The daily miracle: finding magic inside The New York Times’s printing plant
In its March 26th edition the The New York Times Magazine published a splendid photoreportage entitled 'The daily miracle: finding magic inside The Times’s printing plant'. The photos – which were taken by Christopher Payne who spent two years shooting The Times’s printing operation in College Point, in the Queens district of New York –…
Conference: Post-war printing
[Call for papers/conference] Post-war printing 10 & 11 October 2019 Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom When the first post-war printing trade show opened its doors in 1955 the organisers enthusiastically declared: ‘man is on the threshold of a new age of technological development’. This excitement was reflected on the show floor, which…
Alphabet magic: Gudrun & Hermann Zapf and the world they designed
An exhibition and symposium at the Grolier Club New York February 20 - April 27, 2019 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of both Hermann Zapf and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. Hermann Zapf’s contribution to type design and calligraphy is immeasurable. His typographic work alone has greatly expanded the language of letterforms through…
Identification of a 2-rod torsion iron handpress
Can anyone help...? Jens Jørgen Hansen, a member of the AEPM, is trying to identify a recently acquired 2-rod torsion iron handpress. This is the press. Many of the details are similar to those of Dingler presses but I have not yet been able to find an exact match – and many other details would…
International Senefelder Foundation prize 2020
Call for candidates Closing date: 1st October 2019 Since 1975, the Senefelder Prize has been awarded in honour of Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography. It is one of the most coveted awards for artistic printmaking. For the year 2020 the International Senefelder Foundation (ISS), with the support of the Federal Association of Visual Artists…
AEPM 2019: outline conference programme now online
Transmitting intangible heritage. Passing on printing techniques to future generations 23-25 May 2019 Nationaal Museum van de Speelkaart Turnhout, Belgium The provisional programme of the next AEPM annual conference is now on-line at: https://www.aepm.eu/conference-2019/programme/ Full details of the speakers and subjects will be posted shortly after the closure of the call for papers on the…
7th International Conference on Typography & Visual Communication
Challenging design paths Main Conference, 19–21 June 2019 Workshops, 17–18 June 2019 The 7th ICTVC will take place from 19 to 21 June 2019 in Patras, Greece. The conference will be organised by the Institute for the Study of Typography & Visual Communication in collaboration with the Library & Information Centre of the University of…
Technologies of print in South and Southeast Asia
A conference on South and Southeast Asian printing history will be held at the Royal Asiatic Society, London, on Tuesday 26 March 2019. Technologies of print in South and Southeast Asia Histories of print in South and Southeast Asia often touch on production technologies in broad, cursory ways that conform to predetermined ideas about their…
Call for papers: Post-war printing
10 - 11 October 2019, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, United Kingdom A two-day international conference organised by the Centre for Printing History & Culture, in conjunction with the Printing Historical Society and the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. This interdisciplinary conference will be of interest to practitioners, independent researchers, established scholars and postgraduates working…
A quick practical guide to manual and photomechanical printing processes
Relief or planographic? Line engraving or drypoint? Lithography, but which: chalk or crayon? Three or four colour halftone? Or is it simply laser or inkjet printed? Identifying image reproduction and printing processes can be difficult, especially if you are looking at documents printed in the nineteenth century or later. And if the identification of historical,…
Deutsches Technikmuseum reopens its printing section after refurbishment
On the 25 January the Writing and Print Technology section of the Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Museum of Technology) reopened after a year of refurbishment work. Exhibits include a hand typesetting workshop, an 1835 Stanhope press from a Berlin book printing firm, a Columbian Press (Edinburgh 1835), a Hamm cylinder press built in Frankenthal in 1895,…
Newseum to sell its current premises after strategic rethink of its future
[Washington, USA] Newseum to sell its current premises after strategic rethink of its future The Freedom Forum – the creator and primary funder of the Newseum – has has just anounced that it intends to sell the museum's spectacular premises in central Washingon to Johns Hopkins University which will use the building as a new center…
Identification of photomechanical prints
[Berlin, Germany] A two-day seminar on the identification of photomechanical prints In cooperation with IADA (International Association of Book and Paper Conservators) Seminar, in English, to be held in Berlin, Germany on the 13-14 June 2019. Lead by Hildegard Homburger. The number of participants is limited to 8. The subject Within the total number of…
Denise Müller at the Casa da xilogravura
[Campos do Jordão, Brazil] Exhibition of woodcuts by Denise Müller New temporary exhibition at the Casa da Xilogravura. The artist will be at Casa da Xilogravura on March 2, 2019, at 2.30 pm to meet the public. Casa da Xilogravura Av. Eduardo Moreira da Cruz, 295 Campos do Jordão, Sao Paolo, Brazil 26 January -…
A real virtual printing museum
A virtual printing museum in Johannesburg, South Africa Does it make sense to talk about a virtual printing museum in Johannesburg? Or anywhere else for that matter. By definition, virtual museums are nowhere. Or in the cloud (poetic version), or on a GAFAM server (much less poetic). In the present case, the museum is both…
Chroniques: three artists at the Centre de la gravure et de l’image imprimée
[Exhibition: La Louvière, Belgium] Chroniques Frédéric Penelle, Thierry Lenoir and Daniel Nadaud at the Centre de la gravure et de l'image imprimée Until 3 March 2019 Rue des Amours, 10 7100 La Louvière, Belgium To celebrate the twin anniversary of the 30 years of the Centre de la Gravure and the 150 years of…
Safeguarding intangible heritage. Passing on printing techniques to future generations
AEPM annual conference 2019 Safeguarding intangible heritage. Passing on printing techniques to future generations 23-25 May 2019 Nationaal Museum van de Speelkaart Turnhout, Belgium. The four decades since the 1980s saw the creation of a large number of printing museums and heritage workshops as letterpress printing gave way to offset litho, desktop publishing and digital…