Category Archives: Education

Sound archive: printing history

The  Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading has established a depository for sound recordings relating to printing history. The majority are interviews with trade and professional people involved with the printing industry and allied trades, design and education. The focus is broad but one aim is to document the transition [...]

Educational printing workshops in the home of Gutenberg

Since the foundation of the  Druckladen des Gutenberg Museums (Printing Workshop of the Gutenberg Museum) in 1990, the city of Mainz has hosted educational letterpress and printmaking workshops for visitors and children of school age and upwards.
I visited the  Druckladen some ten years ago and found its’ workshop occupying two floors and very well equipped [...]