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Typography Tuesday

We recently received a donation of numerous fine press, deluxe, and artists books from the estate of our late friend, art professor, painter, collector, letterpress printer, and book artist Dennis Bayuzick. Among the many beautiful books from his collection is this deluxe book of letterpress wood type imagery, Typopolis, "A Journey to the city of type," designed and printed in 2002 by American artist, educator, and printer John Ross (1921-2017) at his East Hampton, New York High Tide Press in an edition of 25 copies. The bound accordion book was produced in association with the Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione in Cornuda, Treviso, Italy. Ross had suggested to the newly-established type and printing preservation foundation that:

a working printshop could be used to produce artists books, posters or prints to keep the letterpress tradition alive by artists and designers using the equipment collected in the Tipoteca. [They] agreed and this book is one of the first efforts to produce new work using old technology.

The book is a lovely visual meandering through a typographical landscape.

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