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Extracting and dressing litho stones by hand in Solnhofen
Manual extraction and dressing of litho stones During the recent AEPM annual conference at the Dutch Lithography Museum last November, the lithographic artist Li Portenlänger stopped the show with an extraordinary film showing the manual extraction and finishing of stones at the famous Solnhofen quarries in Germany where the finest litho stone has been quarried since Aloys Senefelder first…
Save the date! Aepm annual conference 2017
New Spring date for the Aepm annual conference As of 2017, the Aepm annual conference will be held in the Spring rather than in the Autumn, as was the case up until now. The change will allow the annual general meeting of the Association - which is held back-to-back with the annual conference -…
Lyon Book History Workshop
Registration is now open for the 2017 Lyon Book History Workshop 26-29 June 2017 Lyon, France 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 printed heritage. Each course is taught by a leading international expert in the field…
René Carcan international prize for print making
3rd edition - call for entries The not-for-profit association « Espace René Carcan » as organizer of the René Carcan international prize for printmaking, has launched its 3rd call for entries, open to printmakers and students of printmaking, of any nationality and with no age limit. Established in 2014 to mark the 20th anniversary of the death…
AEPM at the Jikji Festival in South Korea
The AEPM at the Jikji International Festival: an unforgettable experience! Thirty members of the AEPM made the trip to South Korea to take part in the inaugural meeting of the future International Association of Printing Museums which was held in Cheongju City on the 3 September 2016. The following account, by Sheza Moledina (Lyon, France), gives the flavour…
From stone to chip. AEPM annual conference 2016
Visit two great printing museums and meet people interested in collecting, restoring, preserving and exhibiting printing heritage materials! From stone to chip Dutch Lithography Museum Valkenswaard, 3-5 November 2016 Registration for the next annual conference of the AEPM is still open. The theme the AEPM's conference (jointly organised this year with the IADM) is lithography but, as…
Norwegian Graphic Museum receives important funding
The city of Stavanger (Norway) receives substantial funding for the renewal of its Graphic Museum The Sparebankstiftelsen SR-Bank charitable foundation has announced its intention to grant 4.4 million Norwegian Krone (4,7 million euros) to the relocation and installation of the Norwegian printing museum (Norsk Grafisk Museum) in the city of Stavanger (Norway). The Museum, which was founded in…
Cheongju Early printing museum on Flickr
A new addition to the AEPM Flickr gallery of printing museums The Early printing museum (Cheongju, South Korea) has just been added to the AEPM's gallery of printing museums on Flickr. There are now 21 museums in our Flickr gallery: Belgium - Plantin-Moretus museum (Antwerp) - Speelkarten museum (Turnhout) Colombia - Museum of graphic arts…
Change in board Dutch Museum of Lithography (Nederlands Steendrukmuseum)
The Nederlands Steendrukmuseum looks ahead and that includes rejuvenation and diversity of the board. The museum, after a period of preparation, can proudly introduce four new board members: Mrs Jacqueline Slagter, Architect, graduated from TU / Eindhoven. Mrs Lisette Almering-Strik, Graduated and active at the Open University, Faculty of Cultural Studies. Mr Henk Hanneman, Graduated TU / Eindhoven,…
Rare publication by Peter Senefelder added to collection …
Today the Nederlands Steendrukmuseum (Dutch Museum of lithography) in Valkenswaard, Netherlands, added a rare book to it's steadily growing collection. It is a copy of the the drama 'Das Urteil des Paris' published in 1785 by Peter Senefelder, the father of Alois Senefelder (inventor of lithography). In the book also was found a handwritten letter…
GRID Graphic Museum in danger
[Groningen, The Netherlands] Local authorities threaten to cut subsidies to the GRID Graphic Museum This week we unfortunately received a disturbing message. Our local municipal and county authorities have decided to ignore the positive advice from the local Arts Council that the GRID Graphic Museum in Groningen should be subsidized. This would mean that for…
Poster contest, Museum of typography, Chania, Greece
3rd poster contest organized by the Museum of typography The "Museum of Typography", in Chania, Crete, invites once again professionals, students and amateurs of graphic and visual arts, but also people with innovative ideas that can turn them into a poster, to participate in the 3nd international poster contest about typography. As the greek word “τυπογραφία”…
Call for papers: From craft to technology and back again
Reminder call for papers Centre for Printing History and Culture Printing Historical Society, UK The National Print Museum, Ireland From craft to technology and back again: print’s progress in the twentieth century 30-31 March 2017, National Print Museum, Dublin, Ireland Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2016 Guest speakers Professor Michael Twyman, University of Reading, Industrial…
Printing history in the Museum of money in Madrid
Club de gráficos eméritos The Club de Gráficos Eméritos organizes activities related to culture and printing in different contexts. Its latest visit, on May 27, was to the Casa de la Moneda Museum in Madrid, which is part of Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre. The majority of members have had professional relations with the Spanish …
Alzamora Museum (Alzamora Group), Girona, Spain
Recently, a large delegation of Club Graficos Eméritos visited the excellent and spectacular printing museum established by the Alzamora Group at its facilities in Sant Joan les Fonts in Girona (Spain). The Alzamora Museum, designed and owned by Pere Alzamora i Carbonell, offers an educational journey through the history of printing, from the distant seventeenth century until…
Bookbinding equipment for sale (Belgium)
For more information contact : Vander Heyden & Fils Sprl Rue de Hamaide, 68 6890 Redu (in the Village du Livre, les “Hauts de Redu”) Belgium Tel. 061-65.60.17 info@reliure-redu.com Même machine sous un autre angle...
Annual Meeting of the Society of bibliophiles, Hamburg
Invitation to the annual meeting of the Society of bibliophiles Hamburg, Germany, 26-30 May 2016 Programme of the 117th annual meeting of the oldest bibliophile society in Germany Registration is open until 9th May. Programme (in German).
The Printing Museum’s ambitious project (Wellington, New Zealand)
The Printing Museum: thirty years young! A word from John Nixon, president of The Printing Museum, Wellington, New Zealand The Printing Museum (Wellington, New Zealand) began life over 30 years ago when a group of enthusiasts and professional printers began collecting items of historical and industrial interest. This was at a time when the era of letterpress, the…
Summer School in hand-press printing, history and practice (Oxford, UK)
Printing history and practical printing at the Bodleian Library The Bodleian centre for the study of the book is offering a week-long course in printing history and practical printing, 27 June to 1 July, for researchers, librarians, and others who work with books from the hand-press period. Covering technical aspects of book production in the…
A data base dedicated to historic printing presses
Ex-Machina : a data base of printing presses The website of the Musée de l'imprimerie et de la communication graphique (Lyon, France) offers an extremely rich data base of historic printing presses from earliest times to the mid 20th century. Ex-Machina currently contains over 1200 types of press and can be searched by various crtieria such as printing process, manufacturer, country - either individually…