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Exhibition: Helmut Salden, book and type designer
[The Hague, Netherlands] Helmut Salden (1910-1996), book and type designer Exhibition 21 December 2018 to 24 March 2019 House of the book | Museum Meermanno Almost everyone has on their shelves a book designed by Helmut Salden. The new exhibitoon at the Museum Meermanno includes original type designs, more than a hundred award-winning books,…
A new series of publications on the printing arts
Call for essays Impressions, Vol. 2: Essays on the Art of Printing From the The Legacy Press The Impressions series encompasses all the printing arts: relief, intaglio, lithographic, serigraphic, and digital, as well as related arts, such as stamping, stenciling, and pochoir. Vol. 1 has filled, and we are taking essays for Vol. 2, which is open…
The Printing Museum (Whare Taonga Perehitanga)
The Printing Museum, Wellington, New Zealand Guest post by Jürgen Wegner. First published in The Shadowland Newsletter, n° 89, September 2018. PO Box 419, Eastwood NSW 2122, Australia. Republished by kind permission. The Printing Museum Inc. is a New Zealand printing museum which is located not far from the capital city of Wellington. It was…
Two new printing museums open in the space of one week!
New printing museums. After Malesherbes (France), Montepulciano (Italy) It must be a record - two new printing museums inaugurated in the space of one week! Two days after the official opening of the Atelier-Musée Imprimerie (AMI) at Malesherbes in France, the Museo del Libro e Officina della Stampa was inaugurated at Montepulciano in Italy. The…
First impressions of Europe’s newest printing museum
The biggest printing museum in Europe opens in Malesherbes, France See also the AEPM photo album devoted to the AMI ici. September 28 saw the arrival of a major new actor on the European printing museum scene with the opening of the Atelier-Musée Imprimerie (AMI) at Malesherbes, 70 kilometres South of Paris. The AMI is…
Roundtable on the history of print culture
[Leeds, United Kingdom] Moments of change: print and print culture Alumni Room, School of English University of Leeds 26 October - 3:30-5pm Featuring: Caroline Archer (Birmingham City University) Sheena Calvert (Camberwell College, University of the Arts) Will Hill, (Anglia Ruskin) Fiona Ross (University of Reading) Helen Smith (University of York) On 26 October the Centre…
Conference: The art of transient print
[Call for papers] Dregs dross and debris: the art of transient print Print Networks in conjunction with Liverpool John Moores University and the Centre for Printing History and Culture is pleased to announce the following call for papers. Dregs, dross and debris: the art of transient print 9-10 July, 2019 Liverpool John Moores University An…
Exhibition: Quentin Blake at the Museum Meermanno
Most comprehensive exhibition of Quentin Blake's work to-date House of the book | Museum Meermanno 6 October 2018 until 3 March 2019 From 6 October 2018 until 3 March 2019 the House of the Book will present the major exhibition Quentin Blake’s friends: Matilda, Mr Stink and the Minpins. The exhibition is a collaboration between…
Be open: an international conference of printing museums
Promoting the cause of printing heritage Representatives from fifty-five printing museums and similar organisations involved in printing heritage in twenty-one countries worldwide came together from 2-4 October for an international conference about printing heritage at the invitation of the City of Cheongju in South Korea. Cheongju is the home of the Early Printing Museum, which…
Latin American Network of Graphic Culture – RED-CG
Latin American Network of Graphic Culture - RED-CG Latin American Network of Graphic Culture - RED-CG is an initiative that seeks to strengthen the contact between institutions and professionals that are dedicated to the broad spectrum of topics, discourses and actions constituted around the history of the book and the preservation of the Latin American…
Baskerville in France
[Amiens, France] Centre for Printing History and Culture You are cordially invited to a two-day international conference organised by the Centre for Printing History and Culture (Birmingham) in conjunction with École supérieure d’art et de design (Amiens) with the support of the Ministère de la Culture, and the Bibliographical Society. Venue Ministère de la culture…
IADM annual conference 2018
IADM 2018 annual conference programme now on-line The programme of the annual meeting of the IADM (Internationalen Arbeitskreises für Druck- und Mediengeschichte) is now on-line. The conference will take place from 1st to 3rd November 2018 in the Gutenberg Museum (Mainz, Germany) on the theme: Johannes Gutenberg - the first 'engineer' of printing technology. New…
Call for participants: XiloPrint 2019 Brazil
[Campos do Jordão, Brazil] International exhibition: XiloPrint 2019 Brazil The Xylography Museum / Museu Casa da Xilogravura is looking for woodcut and wood engraving prints from all over the world. The Xylography Museum / Museu Casa da Xilogravura invites all the engravers of the world who do not live in Brazil to take part in…
Endless letterpress: the film!
Endless letterpress A feature-length film by Pablo Pivetta and Nicolas Rodriguez Fuchs As Mark Twain once said, so might have Gutenberg: 'The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated'. Hardly a day goes by but a new letterpress workshop opens somewhere in the world. And, surprise, surprise, they are usually run by young people,…
Atelier Musée de l’imprimerie to open in September
[Malesherbes, France] The biggest printing museum in Europe will open in September The eagerly-awaited opening of Europe's largest printing museum - the Atelier Musée de l'imprimerie - has been announced for September. The Museum, created by Chantal and Jean-Paul Maury of the major French printing group of the same name, is located 70 km south…
The Marcus Behmer Collection of the Klingspor Museum
[Offenbach, Germany] Delphine in Offenbach. The Marcus Behmer Collection of the Klingspor Museum Exhibition at the Klingspor Museum 12th July to 2nd September 2018 Opening on 11th July at 7 pm Marcus Behmer (1879-1958) is one of the most important book illustrators in the first half of the 20th century. He also worked as a…
Conference: Letterpress printing in the digital era
Letterpress printing: past, present, future University of Leeds, 19-20 July 2018 Organised by the Centre for the Comparative History of Print (Centre CHoP) and the Centre for Printing History and Cultures (CPHC) as part of the AHRC Research Network Letterpress Printing, this two-day conference explores the survival, legacy and relevance of letterpress printing in the digital…
A new look for the Print and Playing Card Museum of Luxembourg
[Grevenmacher, Luxembourg] Gutenberg revisited: new permanent exhibition on the history of print July 4th, 2018 marks the opening of a new permanent exhibition on the medium of print with new content in the Print and Playing Card Museum of Luxembourg. The exhibition entitled Gutenberg Revisited has been awarded the label 2018 Année Européenne du patrimoine…
AEPM 2018: like you were there!
AEPM 2018 annual conference on Flickr The photo album of the AEPM 2018 conference which was hosted by the Imprenta Municipal - Artes del Libro is now on-line.