Registration is open! The American Printing History Association’s forty-third annual annual conference will be held jointly with the Friends of Dard Hunter at University of Iowa Center for the Book in Iowa City, Iowa, October 25–27, 2018, with both pre- and post-conference events. Full Conference information here.
My research concerns the printing and colour separation of US comics from their origins in New York newspapers of the 1890s onwards. I was lucky enough to discuss my work with Prof Haven Hawley in Florida a few months back when I attended a conference at UFL. I will visit NYC in September. The main research questions I hope to answer on this trip concern the adoption of the Ben Day mechanical tinting method by the earliest Sunday newspaper colour pages in 1893 and 1894. E.g. were these papers the first to use Ben Day tints in letterpress printing, or were other periodicals, books etc already using them, either in colour or B&W? [Read more]
The speaker roster is now confirmed for “Matrices: The Social Life of Paper, Print, and Art,” our joint conference with the Friends of Dard Hunter (FDH). APHA’s forty-third annual conference will be held at University of Iowa Center for the Book Iowa City, Iowa, October 25–27, 2018, with both pre- and post-conference events. Registration and other information are still in development. Please stay tuned.
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I am looking for an article or website on the history of progressive proof printing, its origins etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff Weisenberg
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As a consequence of a research project focused on events of June 1858 upon which I am currently working, it has come to my attention that purchasers of issues of The London Times in the 1850s had to cut pages in order to read them. [Read more]
The American Printing History Association is now on Instagram @printinghistory. This matches our handles on Twitter and Facebook used to announce website content, and share news from members and like organizations. However, our Instagram will tease information about our programs and our journal Printing History. We’ll also post random takes on our mission and motto “to encourage the study printing history.”
For a while we’ve asked members to tag images on their own social media accounts with #americanprintinghistory and will continue to do so.
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Hello. I am looking for information on the history of poster competitions in general as well as descriptions of specific instances and famous artists/designers who may have been participants.
I have found books on the history of the poster, but none yet that include mention of contests or competitions.
Any help or advice, what to search or where would be welcomed.
All my very best,
David Raymond
This exhibition is a Friends of Dard Hunter tradition, but will be open to members of APHA for this conference.
Left: Antonius Augustinus, Rome: appresso Guglielmo Faciotto, 1592 (detail). The first fully illustrated edition of Agostini’s book on coins is also the first known book to be illustrated by a woman artist. Right: Risograph prints on display at Rabbits Road Press, an open-access print studio in East London, whose co-founder Heiba Lamara is interviewed in Printing History 23.
Printing History 23, produced by the team of Brooke Palmieri, editor; Michael Russem, publication designer; and Katherine Ruffin, Vice-President for Publications, is now in production at PuritanCapital in Hollis, New Hampshire. [Read more]