Who comes here
Designers, neighbours, schools and anyone with something broken that can still be saved.
What we have
Two screen printing presses, a risograph, a wood workshop and a wall full of tools.
Get to work yourself
Half a day of machine time costs ten euros, including instruction from a volunteer.
“I came for a broken lamp and left with a poster.”
— Visitor to the repair café
Events
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Open workshop
10:00–17:00
Walk in, look around and try a technique. No booking, no charge.
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Screen printing workshop
13:30–17:00
From design to your own two-colour poster in a single afternoon, printed on the big press.
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Talk: colour in public space
20:00–21:30
Why is a city grey, and what happens when you deliberately depart from that?
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Repair café
10:00–14:00
Bring whatever is broken. Together we will see if it can be got going again.
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Friday afternoon drinks
17:00
Closing the week in the hall, with music, for as long as it lasts.
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Overnight print marathon
20:00–02:30
Working from evening deep into the night on one shared print run.
News
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The workshop has moved
From this month the machines stand two streets away, in a hall with daylight and room to grow.
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Summer programme announced
Eight workshops, two talks and an open evening every Thursday that anyone can walk into without booking.
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New screen printing press in use
The 1978 hand press is retiring. Its successor prints up to A1 and is a good deal kinder to the back.
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Looking back at the spring season
Over four hundred visitors, nineteen workshops and a market busier than we had dared hope.
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Volunteers wanted for weekend opening
We want to open on Sunday afternoons, and we are looking for a handful of people who enjoy playing host.
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Working together with the library
From autumn a small press will stand in the library, and we will run a monthly workshop there.
Projects
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Redesign of the library square
From thoroughfare to a place to stay, with benches, trees and signage in one hand.
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Identity for a neighbourhood festival
One poster, different in four colours each time, so every edition stays recognisable and new.
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Wayfinding in the city park
Twelve posts that show the way without your having to stop to read them.
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Annual report in print and online
A report you actually finish reading, laid out the same on paper as on screen.
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Furniture from waste materials
A series of tables and stools from the wood left over by building work.
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Exhibition on local makers
Portraits and work by twenty people making something within a kilometre of the workshop.