GWA Grafische Werkplaats Amsterdam will exist twenty years in 2024. Founded as Grafisch Werkcentrum Amsterdam by Wiek Molin and Martin Veltman, and growing ever since, thanks to the efforts of so many enthusiastic teachers and volunteers. And we are celebrating! By giving the people of GWA – the designers, printers, teachers and volunteers – all the attention they deserve, and of course by letting the visitor enjoy it to the fullest.
What to do
Every month we present a new notebook, whose cover is printed and designed by one of the creators or creator-friends of GWA. Such a notebook consists of 48 pages of beautiful opaque paper, part of which is printed, a kraft cover, space for a pen or pencil and bound together using a binding method devised by one of our bookbinders. Everything in this project revolves around, well, however fashionable the word: connection. Because thanks to the collaboration of all these different minds, GWA can still be GWA. Inspiring, welcoming and challenging.
The covers and accompanying inner work are printed in very limited editions of 50 or 100, and we make at least one and sometimes two per month. A booklet costs €12.50.
Where did you get those booklets?
You can subscribe to a notebook subscription below. A subscription also includes a special cassette, made of wood, in which you can collect all the booklets. With such a subscription you are assured that every month you get a new booklet in your hands. Of course the booklets are also for sale separately, in the workshop and on the website – but gone is gone! With a subscription you are cheap, and above all you are assured of a monthly surprise.
Make your own booklet like this, with personalized cover?
During the year there will be occasional workshops where you can print your own inserts and covers. So that you become (even more) part of GWA yourself.
Binding Anna Cairoli Stanswerk Voetelink & Zn Paper Cover CBK Nude 230 grs Paper Interior 90 grs Cocon Production Sara Blom and Corine Elemans Special thanks to: Leo Schoenmaker
