A free exhibition opens on 2 July 2022 at the V & A Dundee, Sincerely, Valentines – From Postcards to Greetings Cards tells the story of Valentines, founded in Dundee in 1825 and quickly becoming one of Dundee’s largest employers. The exhibition features photographs, historic postcards, promotional company magazines, booklets and greetings cards from the […]
Courses in Dundee
January 5, 2018
If you would like to have a go at printmaking but aren’t sure what to try, the Print Studio at Dundee Contemporary Arts are running taster courses over the next few months. For more information and how to book, see their website.
Letterpress workshop in Dundee
November 18, 2017
Dundee Contemporary Arts are running a Festive Letterpress workshop on Saturday 9 December 2017. Learn the basics of letterpress printing using authentic period presses and type with John Easson of the Quarto Press, and make your own seasonal greeting card.
Print City, Dundee
May 19, 2017
Print City, a project by Print Festival Scotland will be hosted by Dundee Design Festival 2017. West Ward Works will once again be the home to the celebration of design from May 24 to 29 2017. For more details see the Print City website.
New use for Dundee print works
April 8, 2017
According to the Scotsman, the planning process is underway to transform D C Thomson’s former print works building in Dundee’s Guthrie Street into a new hub for the creative industries. The inaugural Dundee Design Festival took place there last year. The long-term aim is to provide a new home for exhibitions and performance, as well […]
Dundee printing works to be used for design festival
February 28, 2016
The former printing works in Guthrie Street, Dundee, where DC Thomson produced Oor Wullie and The Broons. annuals, is to be the venue for the first Dundee Design Festival. The Festival will take place over four days in May this year in the former printworks, which was last used in 2010. The You can read the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Exhibition in Dundee
August 15, 2013
An exhibition in the Cooper Gallery at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, will showcase the critically celebrated artists’ books produced to date by Knife Edge Press, the creative partnership of writer Mel Gooding and artist Bruce McLean. Alongside the artists’ books the exhibition will also present for the first time, prints, […]
Printing courses January 2013
January 15, 2013
Print studios throughout Scotland running courses beginning over the next few weeks:Edinburgh Printmakers have an ongoing programme, as does the print studio at Dundee Contemporary Arts which runs courses that include papermaking and bookbinding. If you are in the Inverness area, the Highland Print Studio also has a programme of courses.There is online advice on […]
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