The Brazilian Museum of Xylography is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year The Xylography Museum, founded at 1987 in Campos do Jordão, Brazil, has completed thirty years of activities. It has grown from the original three exhibition rooms to the present thirty rooms. Its collections now include more than a thousand artists from Brazil and…
Blocks plates stones: matrices/printing surfaces in research and collections 21 September 2017, Courtauld Institute of Art, London (reception at British Academy) Details and programme: bit.ly/BlocksPlatesStones-Register Convenor: Dr Elizabeth Savage (Institute of English Studies) A deeply interdisciplinary conference, BLOCKS PLATES STONES will survey the state of research into cut woodblocks, intaglio plates, lithographic stones, and other matrices/printing surfaces.…
[Now online] Niki Sioki Outside the printing museum: printed ephemera in Cyprus local museum collections The talk which Niki Siokis gave at the last AEPM annual conference, organised by the Museum of Typography at Chania last May, is now online HERE. Niki Sioki is Assistant Professor at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, where she teaches typography, print…
Patrick Goossens Collecting and the true craft of historic printing technology The talk which Patrick Goossens gave at the AEPM’s annual conference, Making history: collectors, collections and the cultural role of printing museums, hosted by the Museum of Typography in Chania in May, is now online HERE. Patrick Goossens has been closely involved with the Plantin-Moretus…
[Leros, Greece] Small is beautiful: Μουσείο Λεριακου Τύπου Printing museums can turn up in the most unexpected places. This one is to be found on the beautiful Greek island of Leros in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean, just off the Turkish coast. It’s part of the Bellenis Museum of local history in the small seaside town of…
Yannis A. Phillis: Printing museums – records of civilization If you didn’t make it to Chania for this year’s annual AEPM conference, Yannis A. Phillis’ talk is now available on-line HERE. Yannis A. Phillis received his diploma in electrical and mechanical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1973 and his Ph.D. in…
Kars Veling opens ‘political’ exhibition ‘Declaring reason’ in Museum Meermanno| House of the book On Friday afternoon, 2nd of June, philosopher Kars Veling, former head of ProDemos and Member of Parliament, opened the exhibition ‘Declaring Reason – KABK Graphic Design Students Decipher Political Books’. Kars Veling, who is also a member of the museum’s supervisory…
Interested in exchanging posters from your collections? PosterArc in Amsterdam with total holdings of 120,000 international posters on political-social issues, theatre, film, the Cold War, European integration process, global health and HIV/AIDS, etc. has de-accessioned about 20,000 duplicates from most of these thematic collections and is interested to discuss exchanging them with other institutions who…
A printing museum unique of its kind The Book Art Museum is a venue moving your imagination and mind. Trespassing the threshold a following question is usually asked: „where is the museum?” “Wait a minute. It will come” – this is what the hosts, “the mobile monuments of the past epoch”, usually answer and bring…
Rare 15th-century printed pages by Caxton discovered by researcher Posted by Charles Hull. This article is by Tania Mason, Tuesday 09 May 2017 – the Copyright of PrintWeek magazine is acknowledged. Thank you for use of this information. A librarian at the University of Reading has unearthed one of the oldest surviving pages ever printed,…
5th Type Festival at the Offizin Haag-Drugulin Dresden 17 – 18 June 2017 Only seven days left until the traditional Type Festival (Schriftenfest) will take place at Offizin Haag-Drugulin in Dresden. Types by Justus Erich Walbaum and the topic legibility are in focus this year. Registration for this event is still open at our website…
[Island of Syros, Greece] The history of printing on the island of Syros If you happen to find yourself on Syros, capital of the Cyclades, between now and mid-August be sure to take the time to visit the Industrial museum of Hermoupolis which is currently showing an exhibition about the history of printing on the island.…
The photo album of the AEPM’s recent annual conference at the Museum of Typography in Chania (Crete) is now online in our Flickr gallery. https://www.flickr.com/photos/printing-museums/sets/72157684391080846
Call for papers: deadline 30 June Blocks, plates, stones: matrices/printing surfaces in research and collections 21 September 2017 (Senate House, London; reception at British Academy) Deadline: 30 June 2017, via http://bit.ly/BlocksPlatesStones-Submit Details: http://bit.ly/BlocksPlatesStones Convenor: Dr Elizabeth Savage (Institute of English Studies) Keynote roundtable Dr Richard S Field (Yale) Prof James Mosley (Institute of English Studies) Dr Ad…
What has the AEPM been up to lately? The minutes of the annual general meeting of the AEPM which was held in Chania (Crete, Greece) on the 13th May are now online at https://www.aepm.eu/archive/annual-general-meeting-2017-chania-greece/.
Making (printing) history in Crete: the annual conference of the AEPM The 2017 edition of the AEPM’s annual conference was hosted by the Museum of Typography in Souda, next to the historic town of Chania in the North West of Crete. From 11-14 May, it brought together fifty-five participants from eleven countries including South Korea.…
In this workshop, you will learn everything you need to know to operate the Linotype, identify its most important parts and fix faults. Some small disassembly work is carried out so that you can apply the knowledge later on your own. There will also be some keyboard exercises and an introduction to the history of typesetting…
Flat, shallow? Not at all! Lithography highlights from the graphic collections at the municipal museums Offenbach am Main Double exhibition in both of the museums open until 9 July 2017 . Lithography is a thoroughly Offenbach issue. Nowhere could this graphique technique have been taken up earlier by visual artists. They started to do so just after 1800…
Wayzgoose event planned in Shipley, Yorkshire An announcement from a recent edition of the PrintWeek magazine in the UK prompted me to share the following information with members of the AEPM on the off-chance that anyone interested may wish to attend this event. A ‘northern wayzgoose’ is being organised over the summer by two Yorkshire-based exponents…
[Greece] Museum receives honorary ΕΒΓΕ award for Cultural Contribution Τhe Museum of Typography’s contribution to the evolution and preservation of the graphic arts was celebrated during the awards ceremony of the Greek Graphic Design and Illustration Awards (ΕΒΓΕ), organized annually by the magazine +Design, under the auspices of the Greek Graphic Designers Association. The event…
