EU- BLOOD ON PAPER: the Art of the Book runs through June 29 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England. This exhibition shows the extraordinary ways the book has been treated by leading artists of today and the recent past, focusing on work where the artist has been the driving force in conception and design. For more information, visit http://www.vam.ac.uk.

ADRIAN FRUTIGER will turn 80 this month. Since the 1950s, he has been designing typefaces that have been universally acclaimed as groundbreaking. Yet Univers®, Meridien®, Serifa®, Frutiger®, Avenir®, and Vectora® are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the amount of work he has accomplished to date. Linotype would like type fans around the world to send him brithday greetings. To learn more about Adrian Frutiger’s typographic legacy, and write him your own personal comments, visit Linotype.com and go to the Font Lounge.

FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION is asking you to consider contributing an ephemeral piece to the special copies of Parenthesis 15, which will go to press this summer. The special copies are hard bound, and slipcased with a portfolio which includes pieces of ephemera from various presses. The organization is asking this as a donation of time and materials, but with the object of having your work shown to an audience who might otherwise not encounter it. Deadline is July 15. Request details from Michael McGarvey at mcgarvem@loki.stockton.edu.

EU- BOOKS BY HAND, an International Calligraphy and Bookbinding workshop, will be held in Arezzo, Italy Oct 18-25. The course is organized by the CIAC Centro Internazionale Arti Calligrafiche with the Arezzo Public Library patronage. For more information: www.articalligrafiche.it/workshopseng.html

UK- LETTERPRESS WITH ALEMBIC PRESS: Spend a week in an old farmhouse and barn learning letterpress July 7 to 11. For more details see www.alembicpress.co.uk.

CONSIGNMENT OPPORTUNITIES are available in The Shop at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. This is a great opportunity for both established and emerging artists to display and sell their work. Terms are 60/40 and checks are issued to artists on a quarterly basis. To be considered, please send a description of your work, a brief bio, and digital images to Flora Marden, Shop Manager, at fmarden@mnbookarts.org.

STEEL AND BONE TOOLS made by Shanna Leino include awls, punches, chisels, folders, crochet hooks, and needles for your bookmaking needs. To view images and pricing, visit www.shannaleino.com

PHOTOPOLYMER PLATES, PLATEMAKING SUPPLIES. Boxcar Press produces fine, crisp, detailed polymer plates and sells the Boxcar Polymer Plate Base, a dazzling array of photopolymer plates that will take your breath away, solvent that will clean your plates but not your brain, beautiful inks made exclusively for letterpress, pressroom supplies, and more. Visit www.boxcarpress.com for more information on our Syracuse-based shop.

NC- PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFT presents a line up of unusual book classes this summer, from Exploring Bookness to Wearable Books, Dolls, & Movement, to the Box as Container and Content, and more. Visit www.penland.org for more classes and information.

NY- PAPER DRAGON BOOKS in NYC offers the following spring/summer classes: Beginning Bookbinding, Clamshell Boxes, Islamic Codex, Limp Vellum, Gold Tooling, and Fine Binding. Visit www.paperdragonbooks.com.

PEQUEÑO PRESS APPRENTICESHIPS. We offer traditional apprenticeships to those interested in learning the techniques of marbling and bookbinding; also the process of limited edition book production and the administration and management in running a small business. Working in the bindery consists of binding the limited editions we produce and learning about book design. There is a nice guest house for students. Most of the time bookbinding will be the primary occupation. To see my latest books, go to: www.mindspring.com/~patbooks. Contact Patrice Baldwin at patbooks2@lycos.com.

THE PRESS AND LETTERFOUNDRY of Michael and Winifred Bixler casts type and ornaments in a metal alloy of superior hardness, from 8- to 72-point, and represent the most extensive collection of classic English Monotype book faces in the United States, including over 7,000 accented matrices. Fonts of type are cast on commission to any font scheme and any alignment including extra sorts, and sold by the pound, pending specific requirements. Further information and contact information can be found at www.mwbixler.com.

DOLPHIN PAPERS sells fine papers and supplies from around the world via its catalogue and its Indianapolis retail store. http://homepage.mac.com/dolphinpapers

MA- PAUL JOHNSON WORKSHOPS will be offered this summer at Seastone Papers in West Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard. The workshops, offered July 26-29, include Books Kids Love to Make, Kids as Pop-up Engineers, Books You Can Hang Like Pictures, and Box of Fireworks. For more information, visit www.seastonepapers.com.

HOW TO MAKE BOOK WEIGHTS, an instructional video, is available online through the site J. Godsey: http://bibliophilebullpen.blogspot.com/2007/08/weight-of-lead.html.

ID- OLD WAYS 2008 CLASSES with Jim Croft are listed at www.geocities.com/oldways_id/. All classes are held in Santa, ID. Wooden Boards & Clasps, June 6-16; Tool Intensive, June 24-25; Old Ways of Making Books from Raw Materials, June 26-July 11. For more information, call (208)245-3043 or email oldway@imbris.com.

OR- BEGINNING AND ADVANCED MOKU HANGA with Richard Steiner, Kyoto resident, artist and teacher, are offered this August in Portland, Oregon. Co-sponsored by PAN (Print Arts Northwest) and McClain's. For more information and to sign up: www.imcclains.com.

OR- THE ARTIST’S JOURNAL: Binding & Design Magic, September 23-24, with Andie Thrams. Bind a simple beautiful book and learn inspiring ways to jump start the creative process and design pages at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Cascade Head, www.sitkacenter.org, (541)994-5484.

CT- BOOK ARTIST PAUL JOHNSON ( www.bookart.co.uk ) will be teaching workshops in New Haven at Creative Arts Workshop July 17-20. Please check www.creativeartsworkshop.org for details on these and other workshops.

WI- 3D PAPER MAGIC: Books, Boxes and Much More with Joan Michaels Paque is offered July 27-Aug 2 at The Clearing, Ellison Bay. For information: www.theclearing.org or www.joanmichaels.paque.com.

AUS- THE MEDIEVAL IMAGINATION: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia, and New Zealand will be on exhibit until 15 June at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. www.slv.vic.gov.au/goto/medieval

TX- A BOOK ARTS GROUP has formed at the Museum of Printing History, 1324 West Clay Street, Houston, Texas 77019 - meeting the first Thursday of the month from 6 pm until 8 pm. Contact Anne Taylor at artaylor@houston.rr.com.

CONTINUITIES AND INNOVATIONS: Popular Print Cultures invites papers and presentations for this conference taking place at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada in August 08. More on the conference can be found at www.ualberta.ca/popprint or email popprint@ualberta.ca with questions. Proposals will be considered on a first-come basis through 30 May.

BOUND AND LETTERED is a quarterly journal of calligraphy, bookbinding, and papercraft. $25 annually in the US. Back issues available. Write info@johnnealbooks.com or call (800)369-9598.

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN offers a part-time Conservation Technician position to perform collection preservation tasks such as book and paper repairs, pamphlet binding, protective enclosures and environmental monitoring and more. For application information, visit www.nybg.org.

WWW.BINDERYTOOLS.COM specializes in 19th century, rebuilt and new, bindery equipment and tools. If you are looking for replacement parts, repairs, or completely remanufactured machinery, please view the offerings and contact information online.

SICPRESS.COM announces new products for 2008: 8" micro spatula, draftsman dusting brush, disposable dusting masks, and Armor-All 4 oz. More to come in the near future. More book repair and cleaning supplies can be found at www.sicpress.com.

AN ONLINE CATALOG of an exhibition of Daniel Kelm's book work is viewable at www.smith.edu/artmuseum/exhibitions and includes 10 short videos as well as essays by Mark Dimunation and Tim Ely.

THE JOAN FLASCH ARTISTS’ BOOK COLLECTION now has a digital library interface at: http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/jfabc. This collection of close to 5,000 pieces is housed at the John M. Flaxman Library of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Besides cataloguing the collection, the site also includes links to artists' books resources world wide, as well as a calendar for exhibitions and events occurring in the book room.

AMERICAN BOOKBINDING COMPETITION invites participants for the 2009 Triennial Helen Warren Degoyler Competition at Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. For more information, please go to www.smu.edu/bridwell/events/2009degolyer.html.