The Winter Print Exhibition of original limited edition prints made in Print Studio continues daily at Dundee Contemporary Arts until Sunday 18 January 2015. The Print Studio itself is closed until Thursday 8 January 2015. For full details of the exhibition and for access to the print studio see the Dundee Contemporary Arts website.
Archives for 2014
St Bride’s Library closure
December 20, 2014
The reading room at the St Bride Library closed at 6pm on Wednesday 17th December 2014 until further notice. The details of the redevelopment of Fleet House have yet to be announced, but the library’s period of closure will be used to undertake essential conservation, care, and management of library stock. For more details and […]
The Printing Industry and World War I
December 12, 2014
Caroline Archer has written an article on the printing industry during World War I. She not only looks at the direct effects on the industry, for example as a result of enlistment among print workers, but also the uses of print in the conduct of the war, for example in the production of maps, propaganda […]
Anniversary website celebrating Aldus Manutius
November 14, 2014
Manutius Network 2015 is a website, set up by the Consortium of European Research Libraries, dedicated to the events for the celebrations of the fifth centenary of Aldus’s death in 2015. The aim is to provide a comprehensive picture of the conferences, seminars and exhibitions in honour of Aldus, the Aldine press and its books […]
Dundee Printers in World War I
November 9, 2014
The National Library of Scotland has added a number of World War I ‘rolls of honour’ to their digital gallery. Among them is the Roll of honour of Caxton House Printing Office, Dundee, published in 1920. The book includes details of the printing career and war experiences of employees, and in some cases there are also […]
‘Lost art of letterpress’
November 2, 2014
The BBC have put on their website a report of a visit to a letterpress warehouse in Massachusetts, which has been gathering equipment from letterpress printing firms that are closing. The warehoue offers letterpress machines and other equipment for sale to the community of letterpress enthusiasts. You can see the video about the visit on […]
New book on Monotype Corporation
November 1, 2014
On 13 November 2014, the Vanbrugh Press will publish History of the Monotype Corporation by Judy Slinn, Sebastian Carter, Richard Southall and edited by Andrew Boag & Christopher Burke. This new book will illustrated the history of the British Monotype Corporation in its significant years from 1897 to 1992, with three sections covering the corporation’s […]
Article on dictionary publishing
October 28, 2014
In her recent article on Scottish publishing in Scotland on Sunday, Mary O’Neill describes the ‘disproportionate contribution to English language publishing’ made by Scottish printer-publishers, such as W & R Chambers, Blackie & Son, William Collins. The full article can be read on the Scotsman website.
British Printing Society annual
October 12, 2014
The British Printing Society have announced that the Publishing Group annual volume for 2013 is now available for sale, alongside those for the previous two years. The 2013 volume is entitled Printing in miniature and has fifteen contributions. For more information, and details of how to buy a copy, see the British Printing Society’s website.
Classes for October
October 2, 2014
Edinburgh Printmakers are running a number of courses on etching techniques this autumn, including a two-day introductory course which will run on 4 and 5 October 2014 and again at the end of November. Other courses at the studio this autumn include more etching courses as well as ones on lithographic techniques. Full details are […]
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