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]
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. Schedule PDF | Conference page
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]
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
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.
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]
Sometimes, what the sideline reporter cooks up is more interesting than the football game being broadcast. Hopefully, that’s not the case here. Instead, consider this “the rest of the story,”—behind-the-scenes information on the book Making Printers’ Type: Man’s 500 Year Quest to Develop Better Methods, which I published in 2020. [Read more]
APHA welcomes UCLA Distinguished Professor of Bibliographic Studies, critical author on art and design, and dynamic exponent of the 20th and 21st century artists’ book movement to the editorial committee of Printing History.[Read more]
APHA members will soon receive Printing History 34. Managing Editor editor, and APHA’s Vice President for Publications, Josef Beery shepherded this 76-page issue and was ably advised by the Editorial Committee: Johanna Drucker, Sam Lemley, Paul Shaw, andIrene Tichenor. [Read more]
