‘Make to the future’ London’s first 3D-printed letterpress font
| When | Nov 04, 2014 from 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM |
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MakersCAFE, The Old Shoreditch Station
1 Kingsland Rd
London E2 8DA
United Kingdom
Tuesday 4 November 2014, from 6·30 to 8·00pm
Book tickets here.
About the film:
‘A23D’ was commissioned by Richard Ardagh of New North Press, a traditional letterpress print studio in East London. Letterpress has been a craft long in decline with the rise of modern print technologies. With wood and metal fonts no longer in large-scale production, it’s a technique constrained by antique tools. 3D-printing has been heralded as ‘the second industrial revolution’ and presents an opportunity to see what the pinpoint accuracy of additive manufacture can achieve.
The film documents the design of a new typeface, fabricated as a physical font using 3D-print technology, and put to work in a traditional letterpress print studio. Film maker Adrian Harrison follows the progress of renowned typeface designers Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel of A2-Type and specialist model-makers Chalk Studios from preliminary sketches to first inking and printing at New North Press.