Resisting Hyper-Digitalisation: The Re-Appropriation of the Printed Object in Contemporary Design
Video presentation is allowed to be used for educational purposes.
This project aims to explore how digital fabrication can progress pedagogy and practice of traditional printing techniques within the context of contemporary graphic design.
We suggest using 3d printing, laser cutting, and plotting to create artefacts to be used in (but not limited to) letterpress, stencil, silkscreen, and monotype printing. Furthermore, this research aims to develop an unorthodox approach to pedagogy, empowering future graphic designers through the self-production of tools. To this end, we will discuss how this approach can exist within the framework of formal educational institutions, and in daily professional practice.
Lucrezia Russo is a designer and educator. Chair of the Communication Design department at Paris College of Art, her research is centered on hybrid-practices and aims to develop an unorthodox approach applied to art, design, and pedagogy.
Her research is currently in active development, and stands as the preliminary stage of a broader thesis that, by drawing parallels between contemporary publishing, graphic design, zine-culture, and the rise of the artist books in the 70s, investigates a return to craft and a reconsideration of the published object in a post-digital era.
