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2024 Conference Registration Now Open

Please join APHA in celebrating its 50th  anniversary with this special hybrid conference, featuring curated in-person and live-streamed events in New York City (the Grolier Club and the Center for Book Arts) and Berkeley, California (The CODEX Foundation), with virtual-only papers and panels scheduled throughout the weekend. Conference page

An APHA Commendation, 1978

Amelia Hugill-Fontanel

Detail of a sketch for an APHA logo by Hebert H. Johnson.

“In the course of every successful organization’s formation and progress, the building of it benefits from the hard work of many unseen, dedicated hands, and the able counsel of many quiet voices.”

—APHA citation for J. Ben and Elizabeth Lieberman, January 28, 1978

 

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Printing History 35 in the Mail

APHA members will soon receive Printing History 35. This  100-page issue was developed by guest editors Aaron Pratt and Brittney Washington and advised by the Editorial Committee: Johanna Drucker, Sam Lemley, and Irene Tichenor. Printing History 35 feature articles on:

This issue includes book reviews of Teaching the History of the BookThe JAB Anthology: Selections from the Journal of Artists’ Books, 1994–2020, and Albert Kner: Artist, Icon, Legend; Discovering His Legacy in Industrial Design.

New Printing History Editor Named

The American Printing History Association is pleased to announce Sam Regal as the new editor of Printing History. She is the Instruction and Exhibitions Librarian in Special Collections and Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she develops experiential learning modalities designed to connect her community with print and book history. [Read more]

Michael Farnsworth Bixler (November 24, 1946–September 1, 2024

Screenshot from the Bixlers 2020 APHA Institutional Award video

Michael Bixler spent his life dedicated to the art of typography and fine printing. Michael was a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Printing (class of 1969.) It was at RIT where Michael met his wife and life-long business partner Winifred (née Gray.) Although he was reticent to admit that he designed and cast his own typeface design, he did so as a student at RIT, and with admirable results. Michael served as an officer in the US Navy and the couple lived in Hawaii in the early 1970s. They have run the Press and Letterfoundry of Michael and Winifred Bixler since 1973 where their shop was first set up in Boston, MA. In 1983, they relocated to Skaneateles, NY where the shop currently resides. [Read more]

APHA Awards 2025 – Call for Nominations

The American Printing History Association (APHA) Board of Trustees and the Awards Committee invite nominations for the 2025 APHA Individual Laureate and Institutional Awards! Submit your nomination(s) at our form now until August 7, 2024[Read more]

ISO: The Dunlap Broadside

Via the Contact form:

I am writing a Grade 5 book on John Dunlap’s broadside and I wanted to follow up on some questions I put to your members some time ago. Is Rich Hopkins is still available to answer a few questions by email? Is there anyone else who can tell me about the effects of the revolution on types those days, and on the process that night? I am particularly interested in how and why printers really felt their calling was an artform, not just everyday labor. Thanks, Jenny Green

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Call for Papers: “APHA @ 50: Printing History Past, Present and Future”

American Printing History Association Annual Conference

New York City & Berkeley, October 17–19, 2024

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APHA Founders Series

Elizabeth and J. Ben Lieberman in their home at the famed The Kelmscott/Goudy Press, which they acquired in 1961. Now at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection.

For APHA’s celebration of its 50th year, we will post stories and reminiscences from and about early members and founding board members.  

To participate, please contact the website editor.

APHA Seeks Editor for Printing History

The American Printing History Association is currently accepting applications for the position of editor of its flagship publication, Printing History. The journal is published in print twice a year. This is a part-time position which pays the editor a stipend of $5,000 per year and has a term limit of five years. [Read more]