This is Not a Design Market

State of Design 2009

For those who headed down to This is Not a Design Market on Sunday the 19th of July will know how much of a success it was. Some of you should be walking around proudly displaying your MMoP t-shirts or your badges. Even better you should be gazing lovingly at your new letterpress prints made at the Museum.

We had a fantastic view of the proceedings from up on the second floor. Naturally, our prime position made it easy to spot us from the ground view. Once again we brought our trusty tabletop Adana press for handing out business cards and getting some willing folks to print them out themselves.

SAVE THE MMoP

Open Day & Fundraiser Image Gallery

On Sunday May 17 2009, the museums print workshop was open to the public with letterpress and typesetting demonstrations and an incredible performance by The Primitive Calculators. The event was staged to help save the Museums collection and leading Melbourne artists and designers contributed an edition of 20 prints – which were all available for purchase.

Remaining prints can be purchased by emailing info@mmop.org.au or calling the MMoP committee on 0413 013 144

Exhibition of prints

Museum volunteer Laurie Harding discusses the Linotype machine

John Warwicker's (Tomato) edition for the print fundraiser

SAVE THE MMOP Poster

Impression of metal type on John Warwickers print

Lucas Ihlein's overprint on the poster for the West Brunswick Sculpture Trienniel

Exhibition of prints (front row, from left) Lucas Ihlein, Susan Jacobs, Callum Morton, Rose Nolan
(second row) Alex Selenitsch, Richard Tipping, Ronnie Van Hout, 3Deep Design, Alter