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[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.…

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 http://www.aepm.eu/archive/annual-general-meeting-2017-chania-greece/.  

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…

[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…

Museum of Typography, host to the AEPM 2017 annual conference Unique in Greece, the Museum of Typography, which is hosting this year's annual AEPM conference, is dedicated to the art that changed the course of history: typography. The Greek word “τυπογραφία” means both typography and printing, both of which are amply covered by the Museum which is…

Aepm annual conference 2017 11-14 May 2017; The Museum of Typography, Chania, Crete (Greece) Making history: collections, collectors and the cultural role of printing museums Three convivial days of talks, discussions and exchanges aboutprinting museums and graphic heritage Summary of speakers and topics See the full programme here Jürgen Bönig, chair of the Zeichen der Welt e.V. (Germany) From…

Colloquium: Quo vadis: saxa loquuntur The International Senefelder Foundation (ISS) is organizing its first colloquium Quo vadis: saxa loquuntur in Offenbach on December 6, 2017 - the annual Lithography Day. To this end, all those who are actively involved in artistic lithography are warmly invited. The aim of the event is make lithography better known and to…

A word from Aepm member Charles Hull As a member of the Baskerville Society and the Wynkyn de Worde Society I was forwarded the following email notification about a Printers' Wayzgoose event and the creation of a new museum display at Baskerville Hall (of Sherlock Holmes renown). I wondered if any members of the AEPM…

[Nottingham, United Kingdom] Home must be found for printing collection of the Newark Millgate Museum From the Printing Historical Society occasional email newsletter, 11 February 2017 Mr Kevin Winter of Newark Museum writes: Newark Millgate Museum was opened in 1977 as a social history museum, which grew up around a working print room run by Roy Stephenson,…

[Exhibition: La Louvière, Belgium] Encore sous pression… Atelier Michael Woolworth Centre for Engravings & Prints, La Louvière (Belgium) 4 February - 7 May 2017 American-born, Michael Woolworth moved to Paris in 1979 and soon afterwards met Franck Bordas, who introduced him to the world of publishing and lithography. He learned on the job how to…

Celebrate George Clymer and the Columbian hand press in 2017   A guest post from Robert Oldham on the opportunities presented by the two-hundredth anniversary of the production of the first Columbian hand presses in the UK in 1817. (Ad Lib Press, Turrialba, Costa Rica)   George Clymer, of Philadelphia USA, invented the Columbian hand…

From the President of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)   Dear colleagues, In light of the recent Executive Order signed by the US President resulting in an immigration ban that restricts the flow of scholarly communication and participation, the SHARP Board and Executive Committee have agreed to release the following…

The Leipzig Typotage This year the 23rd edition of the Leipzig Typotage will take place on May 13. The one-day conference in the Leipzig printing museum will be devoted to the subject of 'Writing and knowledge'. Seven speakers have been invited to approach the conference theme from different angles. The speakers include: Tobias-David Albert (Leipzig), Marcel Henry (Basel), Lisa Neuhalfen…

Aepm annual conference 2017 Call for papers The next annual conference of the AEPM will take place 11-13 May 2017 and is being hosted by The Museum of Typography, Chania, Crete (Greece). The theme of the conference is: Making history: collections, collectors and the cultural role of printing museums The conference will look at the ways in…