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Typoteka.pl — an invaluable online typographical resource
The Typoteka website: almost 450 years of Polish typefaces From our Australian correspondent, Jürgen Wegner, editor of The shadowland newsletter, Eastwood, New South Wales, Australia. First published in The shadowland newsletter, n° 129, December 2021. A bonus when you are sent a variety of digital publications such as newsletters is that they allow you to…
End of the year recap from the C. C. Stern Type Foundry
With the postponement of the 2020 AEPM annual conference and its slightly experimental online edition organised by the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach in the Spring of this year we missed out on our usual news session, when museums share updates on their progress and latest projects. So to catch up we are very happy to…
Exhibition on the occasion of the 11th Gutenberg Literary Festival in El Puig de Santa María (Valencia)
An exhibition entitled Impressions has been inaugurated as part of the celebration of the 11th Gutenberg Literary Festival in El Puig de Santa María (Valencia), organized by the Town Council. With funding from the Printing and Graphic Arts Museum of Valencia.
Mr Enrique Fink Hurtado awarded Gutenberg distinction.
Last December 18th, the President of the Association of Friends of the Museo de la Imprenta y de las artes graficas de Valencia, Mr. Enrique Fink Hurtado, received the "Gutenberg Award" distiction awarded by the El Puig de Santamaria City Council, delivered by the Mayor, Ms. Luisa Salvador Tomas, in recognition of his work in…
First edition of Printing Day at Valencia’s Printing Museum
The first edition of Printing Day at Valencia's Printing Museum took place on the 16th October. There were different activities for kids and visitors. Special thanks go to Luisa Salvador, Major of El Puig who gave a Gutenberg figure to the Museum. Thanks also go to Valencia city council's director of tourism, Emiliano Martín and…
Valencia’s Printing Museum’s new website
We are pleased to announce the update of our Museum website, where you can find information about our activities, publications and Museum machinery and contents. We invite you to enter and contact us for any topic at https://www.senadomuseoimprenta.org.es/
The AEPM 2021 conference is now on the Klingspor Museum’s YouTube channel
If you missed the AEPM's 2021 annual conference, you can now catch up on all or part of it on the Klingspor Museum's YouTube channel. A quick reminder of the speakers and topics that were dealt with during the conference: Joseph Belletante, curator of the Museum of printing and graphic communication, Lyon, France — Ne…
The life and extraordinary achievements of one Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Hell
Latest in our series of occasional publications on subjects related to graphic heritage: thoughts on one of the foremost inventors in twentieth century printing and on the Hell Verein Kiel, the German association which works to preserve his material and intellectual heritage. From our Australian correspondent Jürgen Wegner, editor of The Shadowland newsletter
Save the date! AEPM annual conference 2022
5, 6, 7 May 2022 Hold the presses! Save the date! Do whatever you usually do to not forget! The AEPM's annual conference is being hosted in 2022 by the fabulous Atelier-Musée de l’Imprimerie in Malesherbes (France). One of the newest, largest and most impressive printing museums in Europe. Its fascinating mix of machines, processes…
Greetings from the Orient
New exhibition at the House of the Book (Huis van het boek) What do people from Europe see when they travel to the Middle East and North Africa? The area that used to be called the Orient? For hundreds of years travellers have written about their adventures. Later, they took pictures of what they saw.…
Typoteka – Polish typefaces 1474-2021
An exhibition at the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication of the University of Reading University of Reading, UK8th November - 10th December 2021 Typoteka – Polish Typefaces 1474-2021 is the result of a research project started in 2020 by Borys Kosmynka and fi rst published in online at https://typoteka.pl/pl.Th e exhibition opening and a public lecture…
Is there a future for our printing museums?
Thoughts on Australian and New Zealand printing museums from our Australian correspondant and avid collector of all kinds of documentation concerning printing and the book arts, Jürgen Wegner. This article first appeared in The Shadowland newsletter, #127, October 2021. The shining light in Australian and New Zealand printing history is the printing museum in Wellington,…
Award ceremony of the 6th International Poster Contest of the Museum of Typography
The awards ceremony of the 6th International Poster Contest organized by the Museum of Typography of Giannis and Eleni Garedaki will take place on Sunday, October 31, 2021, at 6 pm at the Center for Mediterranean Architecture, Grand Arsenal, in the Venetian harbour of Chania. The competition attracted 628 entries from 68 countries, bringing Chania and Crete to…
8th International Conference on Typography & Visual Communication
Beyond the obvious | Typography and visual Ccmmunication in times of disruption 8th ICTVC 2022 — Call for papers Helexpo / Ioannis Vellidis Congress Centre Thessaloniki, Greece 5–9 July 2022 Main Conference 7–9 July · Workshops 5–6 July Call for papers via EasyChair It is obvious that the pandemic affects our daily lives and the…
Avec, Gérard Paris-Clavel
It starts in the street! The Museum of Printing and Graphic Communication makes it happen Avec, Gérard Paris-Clavel During the month of October, you will be able to discover these four posters in the city of Lyon, at tram stops, in the metro, and if you keep your eyes open, on the Place Bellecour and…
Fjeld-Ljom has joined the AEPM
The Fjeld-Ljom Newspaper Museum in Røros, Norway has joined the AEPM By Torbjørn Eng In Røros, a small mining town in central Norway, a complete newspaper building is preserved as a working newspaper museum. The small Fjeld-Ljom newspaper moved out in 1975, and left behind the technical equipment which includes a Nebiolo cylinder press, one…
University of Alcalá inaugurates new printing museum
Museum of Graphic Arts Ángel Gallego Esteban-University of Alcalá In the 16 June 2021 the University of Alcalá inaugurated its own printing museum, the Ángel Gallego Esteban Museum of Graphic Arts, with the aim of paying tribute to a profession which has a long history in the City of Alcalá de Henares and a long…
Belgian National Playing Card Museum to host new Primes championship
In October 2018, a brand new card game called Primes was launched at the National Museum of Playing Cards (Turnhout, Belgium) under the sponsorship of Jean-Paul Van Bendegem. Primes is a card game with no face cards or or aces. It is played with all the prime numbers between 10 and 60 the aims being…
What does it mean to edit a modernist text?
Imprints: Art Editing Modernism An exhibition hosted by Shandy Hall, Coxwold, North Yorkshire (UK), the former home of proto-modernist Laurence Sterne, author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) 29 August — 11 September 2021 Imprints: Art Editing Modernism explores the impact and meaning of modernist literary works in the present day. This…
A new display of iconic private press book art in London
Emery Walker’s house Emery Walker’s house opened its first exhibition on 12th August, displaying examples of some of the most beautiful private press books ever published, and illustrating Walker’s revolutionary book-printing techniques and legacy in his former home in Hammersmith. The new exhibition space in the small drawing-room of the most authentic Arts & Crafts…