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Erik Dunham
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I am a Design Educator at AACC and help make the annual Small Press Expo happen. My goal is to help new designers build their confidence, curiosity, and craft. I love thoughtful design, cats, old books, and the history of type and printing.
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We’ve got some numbers for ya!

Nothing to crunch, just to enjoy this coming Saturday and Sunday.

Lots of Special Guests, Exhibitors, Panels, Workshops and Ignatz Nominees galore!
This Weekend: SPX 2025 By The Numbers
Email from Small Press Expo This weekend 9/13 and 9/14 in Bethesda! Banner by Max Huffman Hi {First Name}, Join us this weekend, September 13 -14, for SPX 2025 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and
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September 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Some fun #foundtype from a few Weird Fiction books in my late father’s library. #typography #books
June 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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It’s Ignatz Nomination Season!

It’s the best and only time to submit your work for The Ignatz Awards.

Make sure you get yours in by May 31st or you’ll be absolutely Ignatz-less in September.

Detail below: ⬇️
NOT A HOAX! NOT A DREAM!*

*(Well, maybe a dream.)

Wanna be an Ignatz winning cartoonist, we’ve gotcha covered!

Ignatz submissions are officially open from today, April 1st-May 31st.

Only works published between June 1, 2024 and May 31, 2025 are eligible for the 2025 Ignatz Awards.

Good luck! 🤞
Ignatz Submissions | Small Press Expo
www.smallpressexpo.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
April 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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We invite you to a unique literary evening on March 19 at 7 pm with acclaimed Spanish graphic novelist Maria Medem and her latest work, Land of Mirrors, at Lost City Books in DC. Don't miss the opportunity to discover one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Spanish graphic literature!
March 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Join us, won’t you?
Reminder: Coming this Sunday, March 9th at 7 PM! SPX along with AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD presents the DC Area premiere of ART SPIEGLEMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE!

Please join us as the screening, the film’s co-director Philip Dolin will be there for a Q&A discussing the film.
SPX Presents: ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE
While best known for the two volumes of his graphic novel “Maus,” cartoonist Art Spiegelman’s deeply personal body of work also includes “In the Shadow of No Towers,” “Breakdowns” and “The Wild Party....
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March 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This is going to be amazing!
February 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Shared a few books with my #typography students today. They seemed genuinely interested!
January 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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The @sivav.bsky.social piece on phones and youth well being is so, so good, and this is the crux of it. I’m no fan of phones *inside classrooms*, but shoving the blame for youth anguish onto phones lets adults skate on the moral injury we inflict on our kids.
January 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM