Conferences on typography to follow online
The TDC 66 exhibition, organized by the French school of design, animation, games and digital ECV, is held this year online.
This event dedicated to graphic design and more particularly to typography proposes two conferences of professionals and type designers on the YouTube channel, the LinkedIn account and the exhibition website, on April 13th at 6pm and on April 15th at 5pm.
Lecta joins Celab
Paper manufacturer Lecta joins the organization Circular Economy for Labels (Celab) Europe, which brings together European companies in the self-adhesive label value chain.
Launched in October 2020, Celab is an international initiative of label professionals that aims to create a more sustainable pressure-sensitive label industry by increasing the recycling of liner and waste from weeding.
"At Lecta, and with our Adestor line, we continue to be firmly committed to reducing our environmental impact and actively seeking collaborative projects in which we can develop new mechanisms to preserve natural resources and protect our planet." said Miguel Prieto, Lecta's self-adhesive production manager.
Gallimard overwhelmed with manuscripts says stop
The confinements seem to have inspired the French, so much so that the publishing house Gallimard has said stop. On its Twitter account, the publisher posted on April 2: "Given the exceptional circumstances, we ask you to postpone sending the manuscripts. Please take care of yourselves and always good reading to all".
Interviewed by Agence France-Presse, the publishing house said that for almost a year now, it has been receiving not 30 but 50 manuscripts a day. "We want to give the same attention to all the manuscripts we receive and we respond to all submissions, explained Gabrielle Lécrivain, editor. It is a considerable work that requires meticulousness and availability of mind. It is for all these reasons that we have asked to suspend, quite momentarily, the sending of the manuscripts" .
10 grants for emerging filmmakers
iStock, the visual content platform of Getty Images, is launching a grant to support emerging filmmakers and videographers from around the world. Called One-Minute Films: Resiliency, the grant includes 10 grants totaling $20,000 USD.
To receive the grant, filmmakers must create a 60-second film using only iStock images and expressing the concept of creative resilience.
Applicants must submit, by May 4, 2021 7:00 a.m., the storyboard of their film proposal and a text describing their purpose and inspiration.
Ten finalists will be selected and must complete their one-minute film by May 21. Awards will be announced on June 1, 2021. The grand prize winner will receive US$7,000, the runner-up will receive US$5,000, and the remaining eight will receive US$1,000 each.
Behind the scenes of a rotary printing plant on the small screen
In the program Together it's better! of April 5 presented by Patrick Gascoin and broadcast on France 3 Normandie, the regional written press was in the spotlight.
Journalists with a camera on their shoulder slipped into the workshops of the Centre d'Impression de Presse de l'Ouest (CIPO). Located in Saint-Lô in the Manche department, this printing plant produces more than 500,000 newspapers each week, including the weekly newspapers La Manche Libre and Trend West .
CIPO is the only site in France capable of printing 128 full-color pages in a single pass, said Mathieu Lemonnier, press foreman. Technical director Arnaud Châtel, responding to a question about printing times, also said that the La Manche Libre was on the newsstands, only 1h30 after the closing of the newspaper.
And looking back on a special year, Edouard Reis-Carona, associate editor in charge of digital and innovation at Ouest France estimated that digital audiences had "exploded" and the hearings on paper had "maintained" .
