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The OBSOLETE! Press Guide to DIY Hectography, Mimeography & Spirit Duplication

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Idioma English

Publicado el 26 de diciembre de 2021 por Obsolete Press.

Número OCLC:
1346171445

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The Obsolete Press Guide to DIY Hectography, Mimeography & Spirit Duplication is a huge labor of love and a truly special publication. Rich Dana is trying to win not just our hearts, but more space in our homes. Space we might fill with old printing technologies in order to make books and zines and other printed stuff in cheap, cool, and tactile ways. Here’s some background on this book from the publisher himself:

Before Social Media, There Were Cheap Copies.

Did you ever wonder how artists and writers made zines and chapbooks before computers and photocopiers? This book is the culmination of over a decade of experiments, research, and tinkering with pre-digital duplication technology. It's a DIY guide that explains the history and how-to of the mimeograph, hectograph, and spirit duplicators that were used by the avant-garde, political radicals, wannabe publishers, low-brow artists, and—perhaps most famously—by early zine makers. In …

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Temas

  • Self-publishing
  • Handbooks, manuals
  • Hectographed books
  • Fluid copying processes
  • Mimeograph
  • Artists' books
  • Specimens

Lugares

  • Iowa

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