Post-Digital Letterpress Printing

<p>This book presents an overview of the convergence of traditional letterpress with contemporary digital design and fabrication practices. </p><p>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. </p><p>This will be of interest to scholars working in graphic design, communication design, book design, typography, typeface design, design history, printing, and production technologies.</p> <p>Foreword</p><p><em>Johanna Drucker</em></p><p>Introduction </p><p><strong>Part I:Research</strong></p><p>The Seven Lives of a Typeface: Material and Immaterial Convergences </p><p><em>Amelia Hugill-Fontanel</em></p><p>1. Appropriating printing</p><p><em>Caroline Archer-Parré</em></p><p>2. Orlando Erasto Portela: relations between the creative process <br>and letterpress printing methods of an (almost) unknown designer from the mid-twentieth century </p><p><em>Nuno Coelho</em></p><p>3. The Mark on The Wall</p><p><em>Ane Thon Knutsen</em> </p><p><strong>Part 2: Education</strong></p><p>Poiesis and purpose: lessons in making</p><p><em>Catherine Dixon</em></p><p>4. The role of the letterpress workshop </p><p><em>Rúben Dias & Sofia Meira</em></p><p>5. From letterpress to screen: Learning from a modular type system </p><p><em>Roberto Gamonal Arroyo and Andreu Balius Planelles</em></p><p>6. PDLPX: The Post-digital Letterpress Print Exchange. Methodological Innovation in the exploration of contemporary letterpress practice</p><p><em>Chris Wilson</em></p><p>7. Letterpress experiments in a design course</p><p><em>Rita Carvalho</em></p><p><strong>Part 3: Practice</strong></p><p>The Rising Letters – Seven criteria for the typographic design of a letterpress archive</p><p><em>Jorge dos Reis</em></p><p>8. Digital Fabrication: Expanding Access to and Preservation of Letterpress Printing</p><p><em>Erin Beckloff</em></p><p>9. Resisting Hyper-Digitalization Investigating Hybrid-Practices in Contemporary Graphic Design</p><p><em>Lucrezia Russo</em></p><p>10. Computational Design Letterpress: from procedural programming to modular printing</p><p><em>Pedro Amado and Ana Catarina Silva</em></p>