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Poster Boys: the work of Kevin Scally and Brendan Foreman for the Abbey Theatre
The National Print Museum announces an exciting new exhibition, curated by Dr Linda King and showcasing the Museum’s collection of Abbey Theatre posters from the 1970s-1980s. This exhibition focusses on the two main posters designers for the Abbey during this period, Kevin Scally and Brendan Foreman, and their methods of visually interpreting a stage production.…
Bibliofilia. An exhibition about bookbinding
This spring, a new exhibition about the art of bookbinding opened at the Norwegian Printing Museum. They say: don’t judge a book by its cover. But in the Bibliofilia exhibition, that's exactly what we do. Have you ever thought about how a book is put together? Is it glued or sewn in the spine? Is…
Giuseppe Ungaretti, il Porto Sepolto 1923. Storia di un’edizione
Museo della Carta, Pescia, Pietrabuona 8 febbraio – 2 giugno 2025 La mostra indaga la genesi del volume, prefato da Benito Mussolini, ornato dalle xilografie di Francesco Gamba e tirato in 500 copie numerate su apposita carta filigranata realizzata da Casa Magnani. Il progetto espositivo, che propone per la prima volta una riflessione sui “beni cartari”…
Colophon : nouvelle exposition
Floraison - Chrysav Exposition du 25 avril au 19 juin 2025 Chrysav a légèrement déposé des espaces de couleurs et de saisons, fortes et contrastées, pour réchauffer la pierre de la ville et le cœur de ses habitants et expose ses œuvres sur papier de soie ou sur tarlatane. Colophon, intérieur et extérieur de la Maison…
Fallout: atoms for war & peace
New exhibition at The Poster House, New York, March 13–September 7, 2025 Two days before the outbreak of World War II, a scientific paper was published explaining the theoretical process of nuclear fission in which the controlled splitting of an atomic nucleus releases a vast amount of energy. Over the next decade, scientists around the world…
Femmes de couleurs
Le Musée-Atelier de l’Imprimerie de Nantes est fier d’annoncer l’exposition exceptionnelle de Faïza Zeïna, artiste plasticienne aux multiples facettes, dont les œuvres vibrantes et audacieuses seront présentées du 6 mars au 15 avril 2025. Une artiste au parcours singulier Née aux Îles Comores en 1970, Faïza Zeïna grandit dans un environnement matriarcal fort, marqué par…
American Typecasting Fellowship conference registration is open!
Registration is now open for the 2025 ATF Conference hosted by the C.C. Stern Type Foundry in Clatskanie, Oregon. Dates are July 31-August 3. The schedule of events, accommodation information, registration form, and the call for proposals are all posted on the website of the C.C. Stern Typefoundry. More details will be added as we…
News from Norwich
Norwich Printing Museum Currently ‘in residence’ at Blickling Hall, the Norwich Printing Museum is due to open again at the beginning of April, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 11am to 3pm. Entry to the Museum is free. In the meantime, the Museum continues to seek a new home in Norwich, and is also looking to…
Intaglio rolling press and lithographic proofing press free to be taken away
Municipal Academy of Fine Arts Jan Portaels | Vilvoorde | Belgium Offer of printing presses and auxiliary equipment for free pickup Stedelijke academie voor beeldende kunsten Jan Portaels | Vilvoorde in Spiegelstraat is the Campus for graphic arts. In the studio where printing techniques are taught, there are currently two old printing presses, a dusting…
Jean-Luc Godard au Musée de l’imprimerie et de la communication graphique
Jean-Luc Godard, le typographe à la caméra Exposition du 31 janvier au 4 mai 2025 Depuis ses débuts de cinéaste avec la Nouvelle Vague, l’audace formelle de Jean-Luc Godard et la continuité de ses choix typographiques surprennent. Plus intuitif que savant, il convoque des polices de caractères (Antique Olive, Helvetica, Verdana), conçues pour répondre aux…
Jean Alessandrini, Aventures alphabétiques
Exposition La Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire a acquis en 2022 (grâce au FRRAB Grand Est) les archives graphiques et typographiques de Jean Alessandrini, dessinateur de caractères, illustrateur et écrivain français, né en 1942 à Marseille et résidant à Strasbourg depuis 30 ans. C’est la richesse de ce fonds protéiforme qui sera donnée à voir du…
Historic printing equipment for sale
Steuer GmbH & Co. KG a German dealer specialised in hot foil stamping machines and used offset presses is selling some historic equipment: Heidelberg letterpress cylinder (Format 48x65 cm, 1922) Letterpress printing machine (Format 32x45 cm, Miehle Vertical V50, Miehle Printing Press & MFG. Co., Chicago III., USA) Planeta letterpress cylinder (Format 60x80 cm, Machine-No.…
Celles & ceux de Marchoul
La nouvelle exposition du Centre de la gravure et de l'image imprimée met en lumière la figure de Gustave Marchoul (1924-2015) tout à la fois comme artiste mais surtout comme enseignant. Cette personnalité centrale de la gravure en Belgique a en effet été un passeur infatigable. Il fut professeur à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Mons…
AEPM 2025 annual conference: save the date!
3–5 September 2025 Hold the front page! Tie a knot in your handkerchief! Do whatever you usually do to not forget! But save the date! The AEPM's annual conference is being hosted in 2025 by the Centre for printing history and culture (CPHC). As usual it is being held at a new venue, this year…
News of the Museum of Books and Printing of Ukraine
From our Australian correspondent Jürgen Wegner. First published in The Shadowland Newsletter n° 166, (Музей книги і друкарства України)November 2024. Музей книги і друкарства України An email brought to my attention an important book and printing museum located in Київ in the Ukraine—the Музей книги і друкарства України (Ukr., Muzeĭ knigi i drukarstva Ukraïni or…
Greetings from Australia’s largest, and fastest growing print museum
The Penrith Museum of Printing, Sydney (known as the PMOP). We'd like to tell all you 'lovers of letterpress' who reside in the Northern Hemisphere, something about the growth of what is Australia's largest and most active print museum. The Penrith Museum of Printing (PMOP), was founded over 20 years ago, after the closure of…
69. International children’s book exhibition. A passion for collecting
Zum 69. Mal zeigt die Internationale Kinderbuchausstellung Neuerscheinungen aus vielen Ländern. In den künstlerisch anspruchsvollen Büchern schlagen sich auch aktuelle Themen nieder und gesellschaftliche Diskurse werden begleitet. In diesem Jahr widmet sich die Ausstellung neben dem aktuellen Kinderbuch dem Thema Sammeln. Bücher sind oft Sammlungen, ein Museum sammelt, einzelne Menschen sammeln und treffen dabei viele…
A new book about the collections of the Type Archive
Type Archived, by Richard Ardagh, is a new book about the collections of the Type Archive in London, which was forced to close in 2023. The tools and machinery of traditional typefounding and machine typesetting are richly illustrated in chapters organised by material: iron, steel, copper, brass, bronze, lead, tin and antimony, and paper. Founded…
The Gutenberg Museum’s Bibles online
The Gutenberg-Museum in Mainz, the birthplace of Johannes Gutenberg, is one of the most important places for collecting and preserving Gutenberg's invention as well as for communicating the history of books, printing and writing. Its unique collection comprises around 500,000 objects from the fields of books, writing and the art of printing and shows their…
Eröffnung der neuen Dauerausstellung des Gutenberg-Museums: „Gutenberg-Museum MOVED“
Das Gutenberg-Museum erwartet zahlreiche Besucher:innen am 23. und 24. November, jeweils von 9-18 Uhr, in seiner neu kuratierten Ausstellung am Interimsstandort im Naturhistorischen Museum Mainz. Der Eintritt ist frei. Mainz. Die neue Ausstellung des Gutenberg-Museums erstrahlt in neuem Glanz: Nach intensiver Vorbereitung stehen vom 23. November an die Türen von „Gutenberg-Museum MOVED“ für Besucher:innen aus…