Post-Digital Letterpress Printing: Research, Education and Practice [Paperback]

This book presents an overview of the convergence of traditional letterpress with contemporary digital design and fabrication practices.

Reflecting on the role of letterpress within the emergent hybrid post-digital design process, contributors present historical and contemporary analysis, grounded in case studies and current practice. The main themes covered include the research on letterpress as a technology and medium; a reflection on the contribution of letterpress to arts and design education; and current artistic and communication design practice merging past, present and future digital fabrication processes.

This will be of interest to scholars working in graphic design, communication design, book design, typography, typeface design, design history, printing, and production technologies.

Foreword

Johanna Drucker

Introduction

Part I:Research

The Seven Lives of a Typeface: Material and Immaterial Convergences

Amelia Hugill-Fontanel

1. Appropriating printing

Caroline Archer-Parr?

2. Orlando Erasto Portela: relations between the creative process
and letterpress printing methods of an (almost) unknown designer from the mid-twentieth century

Nuno Coelho

3. The Mark on The Wall

Ane Thon Knutsen

Part 2: Education

Poiesis and purpose: lessons in making

Catherine Dixon

4. The role of the letterpress workshop

R?ben DilcW