Table of Contents

Introduction Preamble PART 1: Historical Perspective: Print, technology and revolutions Chapter 1: Technology as a driver of creativity Avant Garde ideas Futurism in Italy Russian Futurism and Constructivism Chapter 2: Craft and technology The Deutscher Werkbund The Bauhaus, craft and technology A German alternative to the Bauhaus New Typography Chapter 3: The business of graphic design Modernism and America Mature Modernism and integrity New Wave, new technology PART 2: Immaterial Technology in the Physical World Chapter 4: Networking before the internet Low tech, low cost, print opportunities The rise of the western alternative press Photocopying and zines The Whole Earth Catalog Digital technology and the zine Chapter 5: Inevitability of digital technology The computer The Internet Hypertext Paper publishing's crisis of confidence the e-book Websites Chapter 6: The persistence of paper The advantage of permanence The storage culture Digitising print archives Archiving digital material The resilience of paper Chapter 7: Democratising graphic design Letraset Phototypsetting Adaptation of letterforms for technologies Typography and the computer Touchscreen handwriting recognition systems PART 3: The Rehabilitation of Print and Printed Media Chapter 8: Print media adapting to digital tools Newspapers: managing change From fanzine to mainstream The end of print (again) Chapter 9: Cursing and celebrating digital technology The encyclopaedia reinvented The type specimen book The telephone directory New symbiotic relationships Chapter 10: Celebrating the limitations of print Diverse characteristics of print and its use The popular printed novel Books for children Textbooks for students Chapter 11: The allure of making things Skills and craftsmanship Print as a 'democratic multiple' The physical dilemma of books Printed matter as art Print and craft: new creative possibilities The book art object Postscript The reinvention of print References Bibliography Index

Promotional Information

Reinventing Print looks at the rise of digital technology and examine the infinite possibilities it offers and the profound cultural and technical influence it has had in all aspects of visual communication. This book then focuses on our current post-digital age, in which typography embraces both the digital and the traditional craft of typography from letterpress to handrawn fonts.

About the Author

David Jury teaches at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK. He is also the author and designer of a number of books including Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers; About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography; Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade; and What is Typography? From 1996 to 2006 he was the editor of TypoGraphic, journal of the International Society of Typographic Designers. As a typographer and book designer he has won Awards of Excellence from D&AD, ICOGRADA, ISTD and the New York Type Club.

Reviews

A well rounded take on the revival of post-digital craft … For those attempting to track the resurgence of traditional techniques through a landscape dominated by digital production, Jury’s book may prove a useful guide.
*Eye Magazine*

An academic and design historian—perhaps one of the best of our time—Jury has a lot to say and takes his time doing so.
*Communication Arts Magazine*

Print is NOT dead or dying, yet it is continually transformed. Jury's book is a necessary reminder of where print design came from, where it is going, and what it means to design as art and craft.
*Steven Heller, co-chair SVA MFA Design / Designer As Author, and Entrepreneur*

A practical and insightful review of the ever-changing landscape with respect to the interface[s] between digital and analogue technologies, specifically within creative practices such as graphic design and its related fields.
*Dr Sheena Calvert, Camberwell College of Arts, UK*

...provides the balance that a current course in typography needs to prepare the next generation of graphic designers.
*Dennis Ichiyama, Purdue University, USA*