The Leipzig Museum für Druckkunst is taking over the unique collection of historical printed matter, type matrices and machines of the Offizin Haag-Drugulin printing workshop which closed down at the beginning of the year, following the death of its owner, Professor Eckehart SchumacherGebler, who was regarded as one of the world’s most renowned print historians…
An exhibition of printed decorated papers 9 May – 24 June 2023 at the St Bride Foundation, London The exhibition includes over 200 papers from the early 18th century to the present day from Germany, Italy, France and Britain. A variety of techniques were employed including engraved metal plates, carved fruitwood blocks and lithography. From…
Talking of printing A selection of talks given between 2005 and 2020 at the annual conference of the Association of European Printing Museums Talking of printing offers a selection of talks reflecting the diversity of speakers at the AEPM’s annual conferences and of the wide range of subjects they have addressed over the years. It…
The programme of the AEPM annual conference 2023 is now online The conference is being hosted this year by the Klingspor Museum and Haus der Stadtgeschichte (local history museum) in Offenbach am Main (Germany) on the theme Quo vadis? Printing discovering its future. The conference will take place in Offenbach am Main from 25 –…
We regret to announce that due to unforeseen circumstances the Atelier du livre d’art et de l’estampe (Imprimerie nationale) is unable to host the AEPM’s 2023 annual conference as was initially planned. We thank the team most sincerely for all the effort they put into the initial planning stages of the programme and wish them…
New exhibition at the Danish Poster Museum In today’s urban areas, different posters compete for physical space and for a voice in the climate agenda: demonstration posters that try to mobilise people to attend climate marches, advertising posters with sustainable intentions, green messages on political posters and state energy posters with energy-saving tips. Inspired by…
APHA’s 2023 Institutional Award announced This year the American Printing History Association‘s prestigious Institutional Award honours two printing museums, one in Italy the other in the United States. Founded in 1995, the Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione, is a museum, archive, library, and ‘working studio print shop’ in Cornuda, Italy. In his acceptance speech on behalf of…
Exhibition celebrating 100 years of Adana 26 January 2023 – April 24 2023 Monday – Friday 10:00-5:00pm Please note: the exhibition space is not always open due to its dual usage. Please contact St Bride Foundation at info@sbf.org.uk before you come to avoid disappointment. The Adana printing press is 100 years old and to mark…
With Riccardo Olocco and Michele Patanè Talk: online and in-person Thursday 30 March 2023 7–8.30 pm BST St Bride Foundation Book Tickets HERE What do we need to design a type revival? Looking beyond the limits of a definition, Riccardo and Michele – both experienced designers and educators – will provide reflections to understand what…
The future of the Offizin Haag-Drugulin, Dresden, is uncertain By Silvia Werfel After the death of Eckehart SchumacherGebler on 17 December 2022, it is uncertain what will happen to Offizin Haag-Drugulin (OHD). SchumacherGebler had taken over the renowned Leipzig company, founded in 1829, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and most recently continued to…
Obituary The death of Eckehart SchumacherGebler on 17 December 2022 (born 1934) has affected all of his friends in the fields typography and printing. Few people were so closely involved in actively safeguarding historical type culture. Who else could have managed with such professionalism the continued use of old typefaces in the present day. Eckehart…
Exhibition 24.09.2022 – 12.02.2023 An exhibition dedicated to Aachen was opened at the International Newspaper Museum for the Art Route 2022 Show off 50 pictures of Achim Ferrari, who captured the colours of the 1980s with his camera in a unique way. Still marked by the traces of destruction caused by the Second World War,…
The type specimens of the Klingspor Type Foundry Offenbach are now available online on our new website. For the moment there are 1000 digital images, and many more will be added next year. On the website, designed by Turbo Type, you can search by colour, typeface or designer, and current projects on the subject are…
Call for Papers International graduate student symposium on the study of books and literature in exhibitions The multimodal and multifaceted ways in which books and literature may be exploited in exhibitions has captured the attention of scholars from a variety of disciplines: from museum and curatorial studies to literary criticism, art history, communication and media studies,…
Call for participation The Giannis and Eleni Garedaki Museum of Typography (Chania, Crete) has announced its 7th International Poster Contest, entitled Planet Earth at the ecological crossroad. At the peak of the climate crisis, the message of environmental awareness is required to reach as many of us as possible. The poster as ‘messenger’ plays its…
A Design week 2022 event to coincide with the National Print Museum’s new exhibition Wednesday 16 November at 15.00, the National Print Museum is organising an event to coincide with the launch of its new exhibition Grand stuff: label art from Ireland . The exhibition is the first attempt to survey label art produced in…
We are a long standing family with roots within the letterpress and offset business from the isolated island of Malta. We have a couple of old vintage pieces of equipment which we wonder would be of interest to anyone. We have a large book press, an old hand fed platen, and also an old 1ft…
Beatrice Warde: her life and work With Nicolas Barker 10 November 2022 St Bride Foundation and online via Zoom We are honoured to be joined by Nicolas Barker to celebrate the life and work of Beatrice Warde. Nicolas first met Beatrice in the late 1940s. He describes her as force of nature, and an enthusiast…
Typorama – Museum for Typesetting and Printing Bischofszell, Switzerland We need your support, because we really want to save this machine. It is a treadle cylinder press manufactured by Albert & Hamm in 1884 with automatic inking and paper delivery. Once acquired and moved to our premises, the press will be restored so that it…
AusDrücklich Offenbach (explicitly Offenbach) Offenbach, its history of printing and its impact on tomorrow Edited by Monika Jäger and Jürgen Eichenauer Offenbacher Studien volume 5 Weimar (VDG) 2022 ISBN 978-3-89739-967 12 essays, language: German, 167 p, colour illustrations Offenbach and Printing? But, isn‘t it Offenbach and Leather? In fact it is both. But while the…
