Letterpress Workers 2018

Location

Leoncavallo Spa

Theme

True/False

Presentations

  • Who are these guys? 6 letterpress workers present themselves (Hannah Harkes, Rozemarijn Oudejans, Arcangela Regis, Mike Ainsworth, Thomas Siemon)
  • SuperCircus, a modern fat face going from digital to letterpress (Guillaume Bétemps)
  • La Société Savante (Julienne Jattiot)
  • Digilog Prints: A Grounded Theory of Post-digital Letterpress Practice (Chris Wilson)

Workshops

  • Mind the Gap, real optical kerning (Stéphane de Schrevel)
  • Memory (post)card (Thomas Gravemaker)
  • Upside Town (Paper City & Jens Jørgen Hansen)

Participants

  • Belgium: Armina Ghazaryan, Stephane de Schrevel, Dimitri Runkkari
  • Brazil: Marcos Mello, Gabriel Miranda
  • Denmark: Jens Jørgen Hansen
  • Estonia: Hannah Labora
  • Finland: Edward Johansson
  • France: John Spencer, Guillaume Bétemps
  • Germany: Thomas Siemon, Marc Berger, Julienne Jattiot
  • Iceland: Olof Gardasdottir
  • Italy: Lucio Passerini, Simone Giorgio, Officina Tipografica Novepunti, Marco Brunello, Paolo Celotto, Paolo Cabrini, Betterpress, Luigi Lanfossi
  • Netherlands: Sander Pinkse, Anne Marie Koper, Thomas Gravemaker, Tiny Risselada, Rozemarijn Oudejans, Marieke van der Perk
  • Spain: Christian Granados, Arcangela Regis, Eva Mengual, Matthias Beck
  • UK: David Armes, John Christopher, Mark Pavey, Mike Ainsworth, Christopher Wilson, Carl Middleton, Rebecca Howson, Richard Lawrence