Table of Contents
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-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
Part 2: Education
Poiesis and purpose: lessons in making
Catherine Dixon
4. The role of the letterpress workshop
Rúben Dias & Sofia Meira
5. From letterpress to screen: Learning from a modular type system
Roberto Gamonal Arroyo and Andreu Balius Planelles
6. PDLPX: The Post-digital Letterpress Print Exchange. Methodological Innovation in the exploration of contemporary letterpress practice
Chris Wilson
7. Letterpress experiments in a design course
Rita Carvalho
Part 3: Practice
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-Digitalization 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