Published by Routledge and edited by Pedro Amado, Ana Catarina Silve and Vitor Quelhas 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.
CONTENTS
Foreword: After Quadrature: Concepts of Composition and Letterpress Forms / Johanna Drucker
Research Highlight: The Seven Lives of a Typeface: Material and Immaterial Convergences / Amelia Hugill-Fontanel
1 Appropriating Printing / Caroline Archer-Parré
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
Education Highlight: Poiesis and Purpose: Lessons in Making / Catherine Dixon
4 The Role of the Letterpress Workshop / Rúben Dias e Sofia Meira
5 From Letterpress to Screen: Learning from a Modular Type System / Roberto Gamonal Arroyo e Andreu Balius Planelles
6 PDLPX: The Post-Digital Letterpress Print Exchange / Chris Wilson
7 Letterpress Experiments in a Design Course / Rita Carvalho
Practice Highlight: The Rising Letters – Seven Criteria for the Typographic Design of a Letterpress Archive / Jorge dos Reis
8 Digital Fabrication: Expanding Access to and Preservation of Letterpress Printing / Erin Beckloff
9 Resisting Hyper-Digitalisation: Investigating Hybrid Practices in Contemporary Graphic Design / Lucrezia Russo
10 Computational Design Letterpress: From Procedural Programming to Modular Printing / Pedro Amado and Ana Catarina Silva