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Title: Get Impressed!: The Revival of Letterpress and Handmade Type
Condition: New
Author: Shaoqiang Wang
Format: Hardback
Type: Hardback
EAN: 9788417656379
ISBN: 9788417656379
Publisher: Hoaki
Genre: Arts & Photography
Release Date: 09/11/2021
Description: Today letterpress is in revival and widely used in books, posters, bespoke stationery like invitations, name cards, letterheads and so on. Letterpress designers like Alan Kitching or Jesús Morentin crave out their names in the computer-generated design world with beautiful-composed types. This book introduces the history and the process of letterpress printing and includes a list of classic movable types arranged in style order. The volume also includes letterpress designers, artists, type foundries, institutions, or even museums from all over the world, each with an elaborated biography and exclusive interviews with the most relevant professionals in this area. It will prove to be a handbook for type designers, letterpress designers, type lovers, design students and ordinary readers who enjoy crafts and prints.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: ES
Item Height: 250mm
Item Length: 190mm
Release Year: 2021

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