08 May 2025

Bildung Digest 6

Five things for this week:

A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions, video tutorials and printable folding plans.

I find this a spectacularly cool, modern use of initials and blackletter. It’s on show in this exhibition at the Letterform Archive.

The largest bible page was printed in Mainz, Germany the other day. Video

Also in German: well produced and researched radio documentaries, each around three hours long at Lange Nacht.

This book on birds in art and illustration looks quite nice :-)

Enjoy!

Groetjes,
Roy

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06 May 2025

Print & Play, 2025-05-s1

Many A5 sized prints in black and white lying in a drying rack.

My Print & Play students are very talented.

The first of three sessions in the printmaking studion, starting with experiments in monoprint.

From subtly shaded landscapes to whirls of string and studies in complex patterns. As always, the personality of the maker seems to find its way into the work.

The assignment is to make twenty prints each. That seems like a lot in the beginning but usually everybody easily hits that target. It helps that I don’t allow prints to be thrown away.

Two reasons: 1) you don’t decide in the moment of making. 2) even the crappiest piece can be used as a starting point for next weeks session. Which is all about letterpress with wood type.

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