Open Studio 5 +6 April

We are open for European Days of Arts & Crafts at Saturday 5 April from 11am to 6pm and on Sunday 6 April from 11am to 6 pm European Days of Arts & Crafts is an effort across Europe and from 4-6 April 2025 you can find open studios and events in the world of arts & crafts not only …

Schmausbuch Nummer 2: The Stories Part 6

Parsnip Cake Folio-Grotesk: frm 1957, Bauer + Baum; Hobby: 1955, Walter Rebhuhn; Verona: 1958, Hans Matheis It was love at first bite, so to speak. We met Parsnip Cake for the first time in Scotland at Ceilidh Place, Wester Ross. It is a lovely place serving soup of the day, cake and they sell books as an extra treat.
Folio Grotesk …

Schmausbuch Nummer 2: The Stories Part 5

Quiche Koch-Antiqua: 1922, Rudolf Koch; Delphin: 1951, Georg Trump Like Helvetica, Delphin was on stock in various sizes in almost all printing offices. It was a favourite for annoncing weddings and births. More often than not the type was quite worn down from being used a lot. Georg Trump must have enjoyed designing two variants each for lower case g …

Schmausbuch Nummer 2: The Stories Part 4

Fupsbudel Post-Versal 1935 and Post-Antiqua 1939 Herbert Post (1903-1978) designed both varieties in the 1930s. The duo was quite successful and widely used for both wedding announcements and obituaries. The card printed to announce my birth was set from Post-Versal. Fupsbudel (which is low German for bag or satchel) is a recipe developed with a big smile towards the traditional …

European Days of Arts & Crafts 2025

The European Days of Arts & Cratfs are a yearly event and this year they will be held from 4 – 6 April. The Fork and Broom Press will be open both on Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 6pm showcasing the whole range of artist’s books and prints.   The Fork and Broom Press Oppenweher Straße 9 32351 Stemwede-Oppenwehe …

Hot off the press: Schmausbuch Nummer 2

Schmaubuch Nummer 2 was designed and printed on the occasion of the studio‘s silver jubilee. The book is a collection of recipes and a samplebook of fonts. All text is handset from metal and wood type. The sheets are printed on a manual proofpress. As with the first Schmausbuch, published in 2002, the paper used is Zerkall Ingres deckled edge …

A Tour of the Jubilee-Exhibition

The jubilee exhibition “25 Years of Printmaking” has been open from 21 to 23 June. Articles were in both our regional newspapers, and the newspaper in the former location of the studio, in the region of Göppingen, printed an article about what has become of good old studio bleiklötzle after it has moved north and got renamed to what is …

The Studio in 2024

Our time travel draws to an end, we have arrived at our destination: the here & now, the year 2024. Many a situation cannot be pinned to one particular year anymore. In the early days master lithographer and colleague Hans Ulrich passed on a type case to me containing Garamond. It had been saved from a place that had been …

The Studio in 2023

So far „Giving Diversity a Home!“ was a motto. From now it will become a whole series of art work and thus, at long last, throw the bridge between me being both a printmaking artist and a biologist. We have set up our own garden here from scratch on a half hectar plot that has been a meadow for decades, …

A farm full of books and a barn filled with stories: schedule 17-25 August

The schedule of events in August is finalised. There is much you can choose from: Open Studio, an exhibition of artist’s books, readings, guided tours. During the “tales in the barn” there’ll be readings from a choice of my artist’s books accompanied by the stories how the books came into being from a first glimpse of an idea through to …