Letterpress Workers
Letterpress Workers is an initiative created in 2012 by Officina Tipografica Novepunti. Since then, an international group of print designers from European and American countries meets in Milan once a year. It is an artist residency during which the participants, using movable type and a printing press, tackle a shared theme. The workshop is open to the public to introduce letterpress printing by encouraging visitors and designers to interact. Guided tours for schools, lectures and exhibitions are also planned. The final works are then collected to produce a travelling exhibition, accompanied by a book documenting them and exploring their connection to the assigned theme.
Out of Stock€ 80,00In addition to the regular (book-only) edition, we present this deluxe edition, which includes a portfolio of 25 original letterpress prints. These compositions were individually printed in response to the new common theme of ‘hope’, which followed the 2016 theme of ‘fear’ in 2017. Each year, the participants carry out their chosen theme in two stages: during the group art residency and, later, with each person’s individual work in their own studio. Opposite/complementary themes are chosen to create tension and find balance. The deluxe edition of the Letterpress Workers volume shows these two moments together.
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Texts by Simona Borzacchiello, Claudio Madella, Fabrizio Radaelli
Art direction by Claudio Madella
Book design by Fabrizio Radaelli, Giacomo Silva19 × 22 cm
90 pages
33 images + 25 typographical prints
Bodoni-style hardback
Italian/English
First published December 2017
€ 40,00The idea behind the Letterpress Workers project, the now customary international meeting of typographical designers held every year in Milan, is that graphic design should play an active role within society and thus also speak of the drives that run through it. In the 2016 edition, the concept of fear was addressed.
The book, through a choral visual narrative, brings together the works resulting from this association and explores its socio-cultural implications, starting with the graphic design, freely inspired by the work of Dutch designer Willem Sandberg, whose human and professional example embodied the very spirit of this edition of the conference.
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Texts by Simona Borzacchiello, Claudio Madella, Fabrizio Radaelli
Art direction by Claudio Madella
Book design by Fabrizio Radaelli, Giacomo Silva19 × 22 cm
90 pages
33 images (16 artworks)
Bodoni-style hardback
Italian/English
Isbn 978-88-98030-22-4
First published June 2017
