Post-Digital Letterpress Printing international conference

International Conference 
Post-Digital Letterpress Printing
30 & 31 January 2020
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto
pdlp.fba.up.pt

This conference — Post-Digital Letterpress Printing — aims to reflect on the current status of letterpress practice and research nowadays. As in other international contexts, in the last few years, we have been slowly witnessing the revival of this technology in Portugal, mainly due to the surging interest of the modern printers and typesetters — the current generation of graphic designers and visual artists. With or without formal training, they have been experimenting, learning and merging this craft into their digital processes “reinvigorat[ing] traditional letterpress values from a design perspective” (Clouse, Voulangas, 2009), following the trend of international graphic designers.

By focusing on the activity held in the portuguese territory — by the letterpress workshops, artists and works produced — within a more global international trend, we aim to gather researchers and practitioners of this traditional practice in the current post-digital editorial design context of the XXIst century’s activities and technologies.

During the conference, we will hold several activities:

. Warm-up workshop(s) on traditional letterpress or current post-digital practices;
. International keynote conference(s);
. Oral presentations of research and practice (result of the call for papers);
. Exhibition of works;

// CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Until December 15, 2019

The organizing committee of PDLP invites all designers, researchers, scholars and students to submit an extended abstract in the fields of Arts, Design and Printing.            

Topics of interest

The topics of the conference are organized into three main sections:   

. Letterpress history. Including, but not limited to: Historical reviews, or state of the art reviews, past and current operating workshops, current practices and authors;

. Letterpress education. Including, but not limited to: current and traditional curricula of schools, workshops’ practices; letterpress role and influence in the graphic design education context;

. Letterpress practice. Including, but not limited to: authors, designers and general practitioners; documental or artwork analysis.           

/ Communications                               
Submission info: https://pdlp.fba.up.pt/#submissions

/ Additional artworks & workshop proposals   

We are also interested in the submission of original prints, designs and artworks for a special exhibition to be held during the conference, as well as workshop proposals. The accepted artworks will be exhibited during the conference and featured in a special section of the book to be published.

// REGISTRATION (soon)

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Ana Catarina Silva (IPCA / ID+ CAOS)
Pedro Amado (FBAUP / i2ADS)
Vítor Quelhas (ESMAD.IPP / ID+ / uniMAD)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Ana Catarina Silva (IPCA / ID+ CAOS)
António Modesto (FBAUP / ID+)
Eduardo Napoleão (UFSC)
Graciela Machado (FBAUP / i2ADS)
Jorge Pereira (IPCA / ID+)
Pedro Amado (FBAUP / i2ADS)
Rui Vitorino Santos (FBAUP / ID+)
Tiago Assis (FBAUP / i2ADS)
Vítor Quelhas (ESMAD.IPP / ID+ / uniMAD)

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+ info: https://pdlp.fba.up.p