CODE(x)+1 #5: Visionaries & Fanatics: Type Design & the Private Press, Russell Maret, 2010

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Within the community of typographic printers the problem of identity is generally assumed to be a problem suffered by book artists, by those other people working outside of the well-defined sanctum of the Fine Press. This comfortable view overlooks a division within the letterpress community that is too often blurred and as a result is the source of my greater concern: Does the private press have a future?

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CODE(x)+1 #5: Visionaries & Fanatics: Type Design & the Private Press, Russell Maret, 2010
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