Conference

‘Platform for Typography and Type Design’ is the motto of the first IMPRINT Fair in Mainz. The trade show for font designers and font publishers will be held on the 8th of June as part of the Call for Type exhibition at the Gutenberg-Museum in Mainz. Conceived as a platform for type...

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The second edition of the annual Art bookfair in Waregem (thats a small village in Belgium). From 14:00 and on, talks and presentation are being organized to coincide the fair. Programmation: 14:00: Delphine Bedel (Monospace Press, organiser of Amsterdam Art/Book Fair) 15:00: Bookpresentations - ‘2 Steps Aside’, Stijn Cole,  ‘Façades’...

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From april 23th to april 28th Libros Mutantes will hold its fourth edition. The Art Book Fair will exhibit a wide range of experimental publications, art and design books, magazines and zines from different countries. The final selection is the result of an Open Call at librosmutantes.com. These projects challenge the...

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Curated by Leeds based designers Jay Cover (of Nous Vous) and Tom Pratt & Ollie Shaw (of Catalogue), the events aim to provide a platform to discuss and learn more about illustration, design, art direction & self-publishing. We’ve invited a couple of highly regarded contemporary creative practitioners to Leeds to...

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«Publishing as (part-time) Practice» highlight graphic designers who are also publishers, and pursue a discussion of the designer’s changing professional role as both author and publisher. It started as a one-day seminar in Stockholm, May 2012, initiated and organized by designers / small-scale publishers Matilda Plöjel (Sailor Press) and Mattias Jakobsson and...

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For the 9th edition of Salon Light, Cneai, hosted by Palais de Tokyo, will showcase meetings and dialogue with 53 independent publishers and bookstores, and three research and performance seminars on publishing practices. The players in the field of micropublishing are experimenting in all directions and playing with the usual...

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Submitted by: Pascal Melcer For the poster festival WELTFORMAT a Pascal Melcer developed a signage concept of using an internal competition of HSLU, in collaboration with Erich Brechbühl. The concept is using woodchip boards, as they are known by construction fences. The signs, which are used as stand or a lean-on use...

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On 1 September 2012 a new arts festival will be launched in Žinkovy, Czech Republic, an hour’s drive from Prague. The event will be held annually in the idyllic setting of Žinkovy’s historic castle. The festival highlights the diversity of contemporary European visual arts, showcasing work in a wide range of disciplines. Here,...

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Submitted by: Shruti  Chamaria The Book as a stable and recognizable object of knowledge derives its authority from the stabilization of disciplines. And if the discipline happens to be law, this authority manifests itself in predictable hues of black and grey imbibing the object with a dusty gravitas. The “Siting...

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In the year that marks its 10th anniversary, the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano launches the first edition of Unibz Design Festival, that will be held on September 20/22, 2012. Unibz Design Festival will develop into a three-day event, including workshops and a final conference, free and open to design students...

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One of the bigger design events in Berlin is the annual DMY  festival. From the 6th till the 10th of June, the halls of  the former airport ‘Tempelhof’ fill up with furniture and products, showcasing the best of contemporary design. Even tough one could question that last part, it was...

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  Vilnius self-publishing art event focusing on artist-led and self-published books, zines, magazines, journals, periodicals and other printed matter.Lentyna is organized by a group of Lithuanian artists to encourage people to express themselves via self-publishing culture. They have a wonderful line up and and some very nice speakers. Be sure to...

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