Letterpress printing : past present future Letterpress Printing: Past Present Future brings together scholars curators collectors and printers to assess the current state of letterpress printing. It acknowledges the decline of letterpress as a commercial printing technique and considers the risks this poses for letterpresss future. However in describing the many uses to which letterpress is put and the diverse communities of printers who still work with it the book celebrates the tenacity of letterpress as a process which continues to thrive despite such challenges. Letterpress Printing examines the continuing life of letterpress and applauds its revival through describing the circumstances in which it flourishes and the many ways it is now used. By setting this revival in the context of its ostensible decline the book sets out the ways in which current practice draws upon and preserves the history of printing while taking it in new and unexpected directions Foreword: Letterpress Aesthetics Johanna Drucker Introduction: Letterpress Printing: Past Present Future Caroline Archer Parré and James Mussell Part One: Letterpress in Transition Designers in the Composing Room: A Progressive Tale of Typographic Transgression Catherine Dixon A Tangible Space: Letterpress Printing within Artists Books and Small Publishing Practice Angie Butler An Education in Letterpress: Charting the History of Letterpress Education in the United Kingdom and Ireland Alex Cooper Rose Gridneff and Andrew Haslam Part Two: Letterpress and Preservation Preserving Historically Correct Letterpress Printing in Theory and Practice Patrick Goossens Between Theory and Practice: Bringing Letterpress and Digital Together in Printing Museums Alan Marshall Part Three: Letterpresss Future Potential Inmediate Writing: Pavel Büchler and the Logic of Letterpress Nick Thurston Letterpress in Portugal: The Future of Design and its Engagement with Past Printing Techniques Pedro Amado; Vítor Quelhas; Catarina Silva P22 Blox: Space Age Letterpress Modularity Richard Kegler East Meets West: Merging Technology Language and Culture Sydney Shep and Yah Wen Ho.