Hands–On Type

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Hands–On Type
Hands–On Type Learning From Letterpress Heritage

Hands–On Type
Learning From Letterpress Heritage

Rúben Dias and Sofia Meira
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The historical influence of letterpress and movable type in the discipline of Graphic and Communication Design is indisputable and even today, in the midst of the digital age, the ability to master hundreds of years-old typographic techniques allows us to broaden horizons and create innovative solutions to contemporary issues.

Hands–On Type proposes a “return to the past” to recover and re-contextualize typographic printing without, however, abandoning the perspective of renewal of Design and its practices.

The book will be presented on September 1st, at 6p.m. on Almeida Garrett Library's Multimedia Room, part of Oporto's Book Fair's programme.

RÚBEN DIAS
With a PhD in Design, on type design in the eighteenth century, Rúben Dias maintains regular investigation about bookmaking, type and typography. Co-author of the books The Book Block, The BookCover, Manual Prático do Tipógrafo andImprimere. Rúben currently teaches at ESADMatosinhos having lectured at ESAD.CR, ESTAL, AR.CO, and ETIC. He works as a book designer and type designer and since 1999 keeps expanding Tipografia Dias, hisletterpress workshop. In 2003 Rúben Dias founded the studio 0.itemzero. Co-founder of Tipos das Letras, with whom he developed the RUHA project, a typeface family and a stencil as a tool to teach letteringand type design.

SOFIA MEIRA
A graduate in Graphic Design, Sofia Meira is responsible for the management of the typography workshop at ESAD Matosinhos.In addition to working at esad—idea, Research in Design and Art, Sofia is also a researcher in the area of Typography and Graphic Design and Director of Production of Porto Design Biennale. She develops research in the area of leterpress, movable type and printing processes, within the scope of her PhD in Design at the University of Fine Artsof Porto. She is co-author and curator of Imprimere book and exhibition with the same name.