DUE PUNTI, TRATTINO, PARENTESI CHIUSA.
Letterpress workshop for Archivio Tipografico @MicroPiù Olimpiadi
We were asked to partecipate to MicroPiù Olimpiadi with a letterpress workshop. We proposed to have the participants experiment with movable types starting from an SMS or a Whatsapp message they received during the last day, at the same time of the beginning of the workshop. All the typographic compositions should have been printed on pre-creased sheets and then binded, to form an istant fanzine.
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Preparation of the materials for the workshop
We realized the identity of the workshop using wood and lead types from Archivio Tipografico's collection.
We chose the smile emoticon as a symbol of the intersection between digital and analog technologies and communication media. We are particularly interested to investigate in this field, being letterpress printers living in a digital world.
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Workshop
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Final result