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17 May 1
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LetterMpress: A virtual letterpress for iPad

This is one of those exciting apps that you’d love to have as a designer. It allows you to experience the art and craft of letterpress printing on the iPad.

The LetterMpress project has already generated well over required amount of funding on Kickstarter.com to acquire collections of authentic wood type and vintage “cuts” to add to their library.

LetterMpress will be a virtual letterpress environment—released first on the iPad—that will allow anyone to create authentic-looking letterpress designs and prints. The design process is the same as the letterpress process—you place and arrange type and cuts on a press bed, lock the type, ink the type, and print. You will be able to create unlimited designs, with multiple colors, using authentic vintage wood type and art cuts. And you can print your design directly from LetterMpress or save it as an image for import it into other applications.

So why bother re-creating what’s considered to be an obsolete process for the new technology of the iPad?

Actually, a letterpress and an iPad operate similarly when it comes to manipulating objects in a composition. Just like placing blocks of wood type on a surface, you drag the type images across the iPad, and then move them around to create your design. This is why the iPad would make an ideal platform for people to experience the creative aspects of letterpress and typography.

Design, Graphic design, iPad, Kickstarter.com, Letterpress, Letterpress printing, Mass media, printing, Publishing, Relief printing, Technology, Typography

14 April 1
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3D bioprinting of human organs, what’s next?

Under - Industrial Design, Inspiration, Media, Technology

Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, focuses on growing and regenerating human tissues and organs. His team engineered the first lab-grown organ to be implanted into a human, a bladder, and is developing experimental fabrication technology that can “print” human tissue on demand with the help of 3D printing.

Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala’s young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.

3D bioprinting, 3D printing, Anthony Atala, Developmental biology, Health/Medical/Pharmaceuticals, Industrial Design, Inspiration, Kidney, Media, Organ, printing, Regenerative biomedicine, Regenerative medicine, Stem cells, Technology, Ted, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

23 January 2
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Letterpress Amy

Under - Art, Design, Media, Technology

Letterpress Amy by Fish & Crown:

Short documentary on Amy and her Green Girl Press. Old school hand printing is still alive.

Art, Communication design, Design, Graphic design, Green Girl Press, Hand Printing, Letterpress, Letterpress printing, Mass media, Media, printing, Publishing, Relief printing, Short Film, Technology

22 April Share your
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Shape My Language – a typographic exhibition by Bruno Maag

Under - Design, Inspiration, Typography

Shape My Language - Bruno Maag (Photo source: Oliver Schöndorfer)

Some amazing typographic work by Bruno Maag (Dalton Maag Studio) goes on display at the Walking-Chair Design Gallery in Vienna, Austria.

There are dozens of different script systems in use in the world today, giving shape to thousands of spoken languages. A typeface designer’s task is not only to visualize the emotion with which a message is spoken, but also to ensure that the reader can absorb the message with a minimum of distraction.

Shape My Language - Bruno Maag (Photo source: Dalton Maag)

Austria, Bruno Maag, Dalton Maag, Dalton Maag Studio, Design, Em, Font, Graphic design, Mass media, printing, Publishing, script systems, Technology/Internet, Type design, Typeface, typeface designer, Typography, Vienna, Walking-Chair

20 March 2
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Colosseo – a typographic rendition

Under - Art, Design, Illustration, Inspiration, Typography

Cameron Moll’s rendition of the Roman Coliseum is as engaging as all of his previous typography work has been. Painstakingly handcrafted character by character, the artwork took almost 12 months to finish totaling roughly 250 hours from start to finish.

Colosseo - Cameron Moll

Colosseo (detail)

Characters from the ‘Goudy Trajan’ and ‘Bembo Pro’ typefaces used in the artwork along with glyphs that Cameron recreated based on the work of master Italian calligrapher M. Giovambattista Palatino from around 1550 AD.