Kumkum Nadig, is a visual communication designer and educator. With a unique multifaceted design background, Kumkum approaches her work and interests through a multi-disciplinary ability to address a design issue as her education spans Architecture, Industrial Design and, Graphic Design. Kumkum brings with her over 30 years of multinational experience as a Design professional, and 18 years of combined teaching experience in India and Canada. Supervisors: www.srishti.ac.in
Letterpress Printing: Enduring and Endearing Values, 2021
For print enthusiasts, students of art, printmaking, and graphic design, working on a Letterpress... more For print enthusiasts, students of art, printmaking, and graphic design, working on a Letterpress is a deeply engaging craft, which for hundreds of years was just known as printing. Letterpress printing is one of the oldest form of printing imagined and created by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany around 1440. It is a form of relief printing, where the text is on a raised surface, and each letter is set upside-down and reversed in a composing stick by hand. Ink is applied to the raised surface which could be text or an image, and then paper is pressed directly against it to transfer the text. Like many other objects and equipment this piece of machinery too has been replaced by new and technologically superior printing machines which are faster, cheaper, providing superior image resolution, and far more versatile as some can also print on variety of mediums other than paper. However, what intrigues me most about this antique press is its relevance, use and demand even today! Unlike any other antique objects why is it that the Letterpress still finds numerous admirers and passionate users even after 600 years since it was first created?
A Letterpress is an antique piece of machinery that was once a primary means of livelihood as wel... more A Letterpress is an antique piece of machinery that was once a primary means of livelihood as well as a significant part of a bustling and proliferating printing industry for many in the print industry in the 16th to 19th centuries. Like many other objects and equipment this piece of machinery too has been replaced by new and technologically superior printing machines which are faster, cheaper, providing superior image resolution, and far more versatile as some can also print on variety of mediums other than paper. However, unlike any other antique objects why is it that the Letterpress still finds numerous admirers and passionate users even after 600 years since it was first created? What is it about Letterpress that we still love to work with it and not just place it in a museum as an artefact even though it is an artisanal form?
Letterpress Printing: Enduring and Endearing Values, 2021
For print enthusiasts, students of art, printmaking, and graphic design, working on a Letterpress... more For print enthusiasts, students of art, printmaking, and graphic design, working on a Letterpress is a deeply engaging craft, which for hundreds of years was just known as printing. Letterpress printing is one of the oldest form of printing imagined and created by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany around 1440. It is a form of relief printing, where the text is on a raised surface, and each letter is set upside-down and reversed in a composing stick by hand. Ink is applied to the raised surface which could be text or an image, and then paper is pressed directly against it to transfer the text. Like many other objects and equipment this piece of machinery too has been replaced by new and technologically superior printing machines which are faster, cheaper, providing superior image resolution, and far more versatile as some can also print on variety of mediums other than paper. However, what intrigues me most about this antique press is its relevance, use and demand even today! Unlike any other antique objects why is it that the Letterpress still finds numerous admirers and passionate users even after 600 years since it was first created?
A Letterpress is an antique piece of machinery that was once a primary means of livelihood as wel... more A Letterpress is an antique piece of machinery that was once a primary means of livelihood as well as a significant part of a bustling and proliferating printing industry for many in the print industry in the 16th to 19th centuries. Like many other objects and equipment this piece of machinery too has been replaced by new and technologically superior printing machines which are faster, cheaper, providing superior image resolution, and far more versatile as some can also print on variety of mediums other than paper. However, unlike any other antique objects why is it that the Letterpress still finds numerous admirers and passionate users even after 600 years since it was first created? What is it about Letterpress that we still love to work with it and not just place it in a museum as an artefact even though it is an artisanal form?
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