What is the point of letterpress printing in the XXI century? Probably none, but still, we can find persistent printers and stubborn typographers using this ancient technique inherited from Gutenberg and his successors over five hundred years ago.
Arcangela Regis, Joan Pujagut and myself gathered a small representative view of “some fighters of this noble lead’s profession” work to show in the Congress of the ATypI of Barcelona, in Bau School.
The exposition title is “23’56. Moveable Type in the digital age” and will be open to the general public until teh 10th of October.
*23’56: Continental type height according to the Didot system expressed in mm.
