Letterpress Workers 2026
You’ll never print alone
The biggest letterpress collective artist residency
Scuola Superiore d’Arte Applicata del Castello Sforzesco
via Alex Visconti 18, 20151 Milan
MM1 San Leonardo
Visitors are welcome Thursday to Friday 4 pm to 7:30 pm, Saturday 11 am to 7:30 pm
There will be a small bookstore. Letterpress prints from around the world for sale directly from the people who made them!
Curated by
In collaboration with
Under the patronage of
Technical sponsors
Theme
Peace
Programme
Thursday 2 July
About Type (6 pm)
Milan, the capital of European graffiti – An unconventional presentation of Milanese graffiti scene by an unexpected designer, with James Clough
Friday 3 July
About People (6 pm)
Begga Martens, Marie Vandevoorde, Megan O’Connell, Émile Venturelli and Thomas Siemon present their workplaces, their work and their creative projects.
Followed by
About Projects
From Belgium with love – A project spanning over a year, between Belgium and the Netherlands, to preserve the art of typography, with Niels Goovaerts.
Saturday 4 July
About Communities (11.30 am)
Typotour – Get to know a real community of letterpress designers, in person rather than on social media. Open to all, meet at the school entrance.
Bolle e contrabbasso (5.30 pm)
Fifth issue of in ordine sparso, non periodical magazine.
With Vanessa Chizzini, Silvia Potenza, Claudio Madella and Stefano Mirti.
followed by the Typography Auction
Unexpected or useful things. We are hoping for a bidding war!
Participants
- Belgium: Niels Goovaerts, Begga Martens, David Maurissen, Marie Vandevoorde
- Brazil: Marcos Mello
- Finland: Edward Johansson
- France: Megan O’Connell, Martial Roulot
- Germany: Annegret Frauenlob, Julienne Jattiot, Katharina Jesdinsky, Manfred Makowski, Thomas Siemon
- Italy: Paolo Cabrini, Dario Carta, Fabrizio Falcone, Luigi Lanfossi, Marina Lombardi, Claudio Madella, Silvia Potenza, Emile Venturelli
- Japan: Mitsunobu Hosoyamada
- Lebanon: Samer Bousaleh
- Mexico: Zazilha Cruz
- Netherlands: Tiny Risselada, Niek Smaal, Sander Pinkse
- Norway: Marit Brandsnes
- Slovenia: Sergey Besov
- Spain: Matthias Beck
- UK: David Armes, John Christopher, Richard Lawrence, Carl Middleton, Mark Pavey, Sophie Thomas
- US: Myrna Keliher
