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Get Impressed!: The Revival of Letterpress and Handmade Type Shaoqiang Wang

Get Impressed!: The Revival of Letterpress and Handmade Type By Shaoqiang Wang

Get Impressed!: The Revival of Letterpress and Handmade Type by Shaoqiang Wang


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An in-depth overview on the world of letterpress: history, examples, designers and everything there is to know about the renewed interest in movable types.

Get Impressed!: The Revival of Letterpress and Handmade Type Summary

Get Impressed!: The Revival of Letterpress and Handmade Type by Shaoqiang Wang

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 Jesus 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.

About Shaoqiang Wang

Wang Shaoqiang is a professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (China) and Doctoral Supervisor at the College of Arts and Humanities of the Macau University of Science and Technology. He is a prolific editor whose titles focus on design, art and lifestyle. He is also the editor of Design 360 Degrees magazine and Asia-Pacific Design yearbook. He has been invited to lecture at numerous universities, design academies and organizations, and he has been a jury member for China's most prestigious design and illustration awards

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Get Impressed!: The Revival of Letterpress and Handmade Type by Shaoqiang Wang
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Hoaki
2021-11-09
240
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