Post-Digital Letterpress Printing

Pedro Manuel Reis Amado is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto, and member of the i2ADS Research Institute.Ana Catarina Silva is Assistant Professor in the School of Design at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, and member of the ID+ / CAOS Research Institute.Vítor Quelhas is Assistant Professor in the School of Media Arts and Design at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, and member of the ID+ / Unimad Research Institutes.

• ForewordJohanna DruckerIntroduction Part I:ResearchThe Seven Lives of a Typeface: Material and Immaterial Convergences Amelia Hugill-Fontanel1. Appropriating printingCaroline Archer-Parré2. Orlando Erasto Portela: relations between the creative process and letterpress printing methods of an (almost) unknown designer from the mid-twentieth century Nuno Coelho3. The Mark on The WallAne Thon Knutsen Part 2: EducationPoiesis and purpose: lessons in makingCatherine Dixon4. The role of the letterpress workshop Rúben Dias & Sofia Meira5. From letterpress to screen: Learning from a modular type system Roberto Gamonal Arroyo and Andreu Balius Planelles6. PDLPX: The Post-digital Letterpress Print Exchange. Methodological Innovation in the exploration of contemporary letterpress practiceChris Wilson7. Letterpress experiments in a design courseRita CarvalhoPart 3: PracticeThe Rising Letters – Seven criteria for the typographic design of a letterpress archiveJorge dos Reis8. Digital Fabrication: Expanding Access to and Preservation of Letterpress PrintingErin Beckloff9. Resisting Hyper-Digitalization Investigating Hybrid-Practices in Contemporary Graphic DesignLucrezia Russo10. Computational Design Letterpress: from procedural programming to modular printingPedro Amado and Ana Catarina Silva