There are still places left on workshops in November 2017 taking place at Peacock Visual Arts. There’s a bookbinding workshop on 11 November, and a mono-screenprint course on 26 November. If you would are interested in other techniques, such as etching, drypoint, lithography, aquatint, bookbinding or woodcut/relief contact john [at] peacockvisualarts.co.uk
Archives for October 2017
Printing apprenticeships
October 28, 2017
Print Scotland, the voice of Scotland’s graphic communications industry, is able to fund 16–19 year old with a proper Modern Apprenticeship accredited SDS course. For more details, visit the Training page of the Print Scotland website.
Letterpress workshops at Robert Smails
October 24, 2017
Robert Smail’s Printing Works are running letterpress workshops again this autumn. Workshop participants will be able to use wooden poster type and hand presses to create your own letterpress artworks, posters and stationery, with Smail’s expert staff on hand to help. Workshops are running on Sunday 5 November, Saturday 11 November and Sunday 12 November, […]
Museum on the Mound to close
October 17, 2017
It has been announced that the Museum on the Mound in Edinburgh is to close at the end of 2017. As well as the displays of safe-cracking and a million pounds, there is a unique display of the varying types of printing plates used to produce banknotes and the measures taken to defeat forgers over […]
Stationer’s Company archive now online
October 7, 2017
Primary sources from the archive of The Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers, at Stationers’ Hall in the City of London, have been digitised. The new Literary Print Culture website provides access to a vast collection of primary source documents for the study of the history of the book, publishing history, the history of […]
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