The Futurist typographic revolution began in 1912 when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti composed the first ‘words in freedom’. Writing becomes graphic, he orchestrates colours, noises and sounds. He combines the materials of languages and dialects. Arithmetic and geometric formulas. The old, deformed, new words. Futurist writing forces one to enter into the narrator’s goals, to look…
Centre for printing history and culture Booking is FREE and is now open and tickets are available HERE Join the event by Zoom HERE Thursday, June 22, 2023 5:00 PM 6:30 PM (UK time) Google Calendar ICS This event marks the publication of Letterpress Printing: past present future which explores the forms of contemporary letterpress…
[Berlin] Michelle Noack, the operations manager of the Johann König Gallery in Berlin is looking for a new home for a Heidelberger-Druckmaschine. The machine was last shown and operated at during the Belgian artist Kris Martin’s solo exhibition Deus ex Machina at the König Gallery in 2006. The Machine was built in 1963 and has…
Tuesday 4 July 2023 at the Nationaal Museum van de Speelkaart, Turnhout, Belgium. The year is 1892. Senne is 11 years old and a factory child. Like many other children, he works in one of Turnhout’s printing works. The work is hard and arduous, and the days are long. The ink from the machines sticks…
On May 27th, the Senate of the Printing Museum held its XXI Chapter, in which new Senators were appointed, the Board of Directors was also renewed. Aranzazu Guerola was appointed president of the Association.
On October 29, we celebrated the 2nd Printing Day in collaboration with the El Puig de Santa María City Council. We present a facsimile of Tirant lo Blanch, a milestone in incunabula printing in the Valencian language, the showcase dedicated to the first great Valencian lithographer, Antoni Pascual i Abad from Alcoy, copies of the…
An exhibition catalogue featuring the works of Veronika Weingärtner has been produced as part of the special exhibition that opened recently at the Gutenberg Museum. In addition to the exhibited works, the catalogue contains a foreword by Dr. Ulf Sölter, a conversation with the artist and information on the Mainzer Stadtdrucker / Mainzer Stadtdruckerin award.…
The Joh. Enschedé Fellowship programme encourages research into the unique and extensive collection of the former Museum Enschedé, the company museum of Royal Joh. Enschedé, formerly Joh. Enschedé and Sons. The activities of this company spanned over three centuries of printing, publishing, typefounding and security printing such as banknotes and stamps. The collection reflects the…
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,…
